Grace Han McMahon

AVP, Business Development at MSD

Speaker

Grace Han McMahon leads the Pacific Business Development & Licensing team for Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (MSD). She and her team are based in South San Francisco, California, Shanghai and Tokyo. The Pacific team focuses on early stage therapeutic opportunities with companies and universities in China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, India and the west coast of North America. Grace has more than 20 years of biopharma experience having started her career at MSD’s headquarters in New Jersey. She joined Genentech in 2013 where she led a team of lawyers focused on licensing, M&A and manufacturing deals. Grace re-joined MSD in 2018 to lead Transactions for MSD’s west coast based BD&L team and took on responsibility for the search and evaluation team in 2021. Grace serves on the Board of California Life Sciences and is a member of the Council for Korean Americans. Grace 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.