AVP and Head, Pacific BD&L
Grace Han McMahon leads Merck’s Pacific Business Development & Licensing team in South San Francisco, Shanghai and Tokyo. Her team focuses on early stage therapeutic opportunities to bring into Merck’s pipeline across multiple therapeutic areas and modalities through collaborations, licensing and M&A. Prior to re-joining Merck in 2018, Grace led a team of deal attorneys at Genentech for five years structuring and negotiating various collaboration, licensing, M&A and manufacturing transactions. She started her career in biopharma at Merck’s headquarters in New Jersey in 2003. Grace serves on the Board of California Life Sciences and is a member of the Council for Korean Americans. She holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD, a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. She enjoys swimming and cycling and is an avid baseball fan.