David Andrew Broecker (born 1961) is an American

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executive. He was president and CEO of Alkermes from 2007 to 2009 and was appointed president and CEO of the

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in 2015. He left that position in 2017.

Education and career

Broecker graduated from Carmel High School, where he led their football team to an undefeated season and the 1978 state 3A championship, tying the

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record for most touchdown passes in a championship game. He then attended

Wabash College Wabash College is a private liberal arts men's college in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Founded in 1832 by several Dartmouth College graduates and Midwestern leaders, it enrolls nearly 900 students. The college offers an undergraduate liberal arts cur ...

, where he majored in chemistry and led the

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football team to an undefeated season in 1982. Broecker won the 1982

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National Scholar-Athlete Award and was inducted into the Wabash College Athletic Hall of Fame twice: as an individual in 1992, and as part of the team he led in 2013. After graduating ''

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'' and

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from Wabash College in 1983, he earned a M.S. degree in

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from the

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in 1985. In 1989 he earned a

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from

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. In 1985, Broecker joined

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, starting in the

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and

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division that later became

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. He was then involved in development of

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, and

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, overseeing manufacturing operations in Germany and Ireland. In 2001, he was appointed as

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of Alkermes, later serving as both president and CEO. He then held executive positions at BioCritica, ApeX Therapeutics, DiaCarta, and Harlan Laboratories. He founded Zorion Medical in 2010. He was elected a Trustee of Wabash College in 2009. In 2015, Broecker was appointed President and CEO of the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute (IBRI). In 2016, he announced the IBRI would focus on targeting

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, and poor

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. In 2016, the IBRI secured $100 million in grants under his leadership. Broecker was tasked with finding a new location for the IBRI, eventually getting approval for a site to be called 16 Tech. In 2016, Broecker announced that the IBRI had hired Rainer Fischer as Chief Scientific Officer. In 2017, Broecker announced that Indiana Governor

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reaffirmed the commitment to the IBRI made in 2013 by his predecessor

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. In September 2018, Broecker was appointed chief innovation and collaboration officer of the Purdue Research Foundation.

References

External links

David Broecker profile
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Zorion Medical profile
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Broecker, David 1961 births American business executives Living people University of Chicago alumni Wabash College alumni MIT School of Engineering alumni