Executive Spotlight I Eliminating Toxic Productivity
ERIN COLGAN joined Flagship Pioneering in 2024 as senior vice president of finance, working within the central finance operations team with a focus on financial planning, accounting operations and procurement. Colgan has more than twenty years of finance and accounting experience, with more than ten years making strategic financial and operational decisions for public and private, small- and large-cap life sciences firms. Before coming to Flagship, Colgan was the CFO at a publicly traded immune-oncology company. Prior to that Colgan was at a private company helping to plan the launch of a Type II diabetes product. Colgan began her time in the biotech industry through almost a decade at Vertex Pharmaceuticals where she held numerous finance and accounting leadership roles including Controller of international operations leading the creation of new entities in Europe, Australia, and South America. Colgan holds a BA in accounting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is currently a board member and treasurer of MassBioEd.