Viela Bio CEO and leadership

Bing brings more than 20 years’ experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, with a track record of leading successful discovery and development of multiple biotherapeutics. Most recently, Bing was Senior Vice President, Head of Respiratory, Inflammation, Autoimmune iMED, MedImmune, AstraZeneca. During his tenure at MedImmune, he played key leadership roles in the development and approval of three novel biologics for autoimmune, respiratory, and immune-oncology indications respectively. Bing was also Senior Vice President, Head of Immuno-Oncology Franchise, AstraZeneca. In addition, he was the CEO for WuXi-MedImmune Joint Venture. Bing joined MedImmune in 2010 from Genentech, where he was the Head of PTL for Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Neuroscience, and Metabolic Disease. He was Vice President and Head of Research for Tanox, before it was acquired by Genentech in 2007. Bing also held multiple positions with increasing responsibilities at Aventis and Amgen. Bing is on the Board of Directors for NexImmune. Bing received his Ph.D in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Iowa, followed by postdoctoral work at Immunex.

Mitch has more than 15 years of finance experience in the life sciences industry and currently serves as Chief Financial Officer.He joined Viela in 2018 as Vice President, Head of Finance & Corporate Strategy, and was instrumental in supporting the Company through capital raises with leading healthcare investors. Previously, Mitch served as the Director of Investor Relations for AstraZeneca, North America and prior to that held several roles of increasing responsibility at Genentech-Roche including in BioOncology Commercial Finance, R&D Finance, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Mitch is the recipient of Executive Certifications from Stanford University, University of California (Haas), and University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and earned his BSc, MSc and MBA (Rotman School of Management) from the University of Toronto.