Lonnel Coats

Lonnel Coats is the former Chief Executive Officer and director of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. Prior to his time at Lexicon, from 1996 to 2014, Mr. Coats served in a series of leadership positions at Eisai Inc. and Eisai Corporation of North America, U.S. subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Eisai Co., Ltd., a Japanese pharmaceutical company, including as Chief Executive Officer of Eisai Inc. from 2010 to 2014 and as President and Chief Operating Officer of Eisai Inc. from 2004 to 2010. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Eisai, Mr. Coats oversaw the commercialization of Eisai products in the therapeutic areas of oncology, neurology, GI, epilepsy and metabolic disorders. Prior to joining Eisai, Mr. Coats spent eight years with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson, where he held a variety of management and sales positions. Mr. Coats also serves on the board of directors of Orion Biotechnology.

Mr. Coats is a former member of the board of directors of Blueprint Medicines and Verve Therapeutics.

Mr. Coats holds a B.S. in Public Administration from Oakland University.