How Genzyme Became A Source Of Biotech Executives

They command battalions of biotechnology workers from Kendall Square to Seattle to Stockholm. They lean on each other for business advice while poaching one another’s researchers. And they share a pedigree that is pure gold in the life sciences world.

Dubbing themselves the “Genzyme diaspora,” this elite club of former colleagues at the pioneering biotech company scattered as Genzyme and the industry matured and changed — many after French drug giant Sanofi acquired the firm in 2011. They are now perched as CEOs at about two dozen smaller companies.

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