Kevin P. Smith is general counsel, chief compliance officer and executive vice president of business development at Sirtex. He leads our environmental health and safety, pre-determination, business development, and legal and compliance functions.
Before joining Sirtex in 2018, Kevin served as vice president and associate general counsel at Flexion Therapeutics. Prior to that, he was general counsel for the Danaher Life Sciences Platform, managing legal, compliance, and intellectual property matters. Kevin has also held senior legal leadership positions within Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland and Massachusetts, including general counsel for the Novartis Molecular Diagnostics Unit. Before moving in-house, Kevin worked for multinational law firms in New York, Silicon Valley and London.
Kevin earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Albany Law School at Union University and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A member of the California and New York State bars and a Massachusetts registered in-house counsel, Kevin is also a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He serves as a director on the board of the non-profit, National Immigration Litigation Alliance.