Leslie Blair is the Vice President of Marketing at HUTCHMED, a global biopharmaceutical company. For the last 25 years, she has been engaged in the commercialization of innovative medicines to improve and enhance patients’ lives around the world. Leslie found her passion for drug discovery working with clinicians and researchers at Tufts Medical Center in Boston – seeing the powerful impact that innovative medicines could bring to patients, Leslie knew she had found her path. She earned her MBA at Georgetown University and is equally proud of her undergraduate degrees from Trinity College and Colby-Sawyer College.
Attributing much of her success to the creative writing and critical thinking skills she learned as a philosophy major, Leslie is a strong proponent of a liberal arts education and currently sits on the advisory board to the School of Arts and Science at Colby-Sawyer. Leslie’s views on leadership? “If you encourage your team to learn, to create, to make mistakes, without letting them fall, they will surpass your expectations ten-fold.”