Cynthia M. Patton serves as General Counsel and Secretary of Tessera. She brings over 20 years of leadership experience in corporate legal affairs in the biotech and healthcare industries.
Before Tessera, Cynthia served as the General Counsel and Secretary at Verily Life Sciences, where she had responsibility for all transactional, employment, IP, governance, litigation, privacy, compliance and government affairs matters.
Previously, Cynthia served as Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at Amgen, where she was responsible for Amgen’s global privacy, trade compliance and healthcare compliance organizations.
Cynthia has been honored by The George Washington University School of Public Health as one of the 2019 Top Blacks in Healthcare.
Cynthia currently serves as a board member for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Vassar College.
Cynthia received her J.D. degree from George Washington University and her B.S. degree from Vassar College.
