Senior VP Legal Affairs

Ms. Showalter received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and English from Eastern Mennonite College and her Juris Doctorate from The University of Virginia School of Law. Following a clerkship on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, she moved into private practice at the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow, as a corporate attorney with a focus on representation of life science companies. Ms. Showalter's diverse legal experience includes numerous licensing transactions, joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, litigation, employment law and a variety of commercial contracts. Following the dissolution of Hill & Barlow, Ms. Showalter worked as a consultant for several former clients, including Millennium Pharmaceuticals. She then moved to Medtronic, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she was responsible for securities law filings and biotechnology transactions. Immediately prior to joining TransTech Pharma, Ms. Showalter served as General Counsel for Diosynth Biotechnology, a division of Organon, the human healthcare business of Akzo Nobel, Inc.