PATH VP Takes CEO Gig at Global Impact

Scott Jackson, the vice president of external relations at Seattle-based PATH, is leaving to become the CEO of Global Impact, an Alexandria, VA-based humanitarian organization. Jackson, who oversaw PATH’s advocacy, visibility and fundraising efforts the past five years, will now oversee an organization that has raised more than $1.3 billion for 58 U.S.-based charities, according to a PATH statement. Jackson will stay at PATH until September.

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.