Executive Vice President of Human Resources, Incyte
Search every verified Paula Swain interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Paula Swain, Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Incyte, has described her role as encompassing HR, facilities, environment, health and safety, internal communications, and the Incyte charitable giving foundation. She stated that she was the third person hired at the company and has overseen its growth from 70 to about 1,200 employees, with global offices in Europe and Japan. Swain said Incyte’s HR function is "high-touch," with employees encouraged to interact directly with staff rather than using automated systems. She also noted that the company’s benefits package is designed to be attractive and that retention is driven by policies that make employees feel they are making a contribution. Swain has also discussed Incyte’s philanthropy program, Insight Involved, which she said includes a charitable giving foundation distributing about $500,000 annually to Delaware organizations, a volunteer day off for employees, and a matching gifts program. She said the foundation partnered with the Cancer Support Community of Delaware to provide emergency financial aid to cancer patients, with a commitment of $100,000 per year over five years. Swain added that the program was created because there was no existing process for broad-based patient emergency funding, and that the foundation operates at arm’s length from patients to avoid accessing patient data.
“We have 19 different compounds against 17 different targets, five of which are late stage.”
“The majority of those have been discovered by our scientists in Delaware and 82% of our compounds in our pipeline have been discovered by our own scientists.”
“We recently established what we call the Incyte Research Institute and all of our scientists are housed in one building — our chemists and our biologists on our campus — and that is actually a building that was an old John Wanamaker's building that we transformed into state-of-the-art labs.”
“We are able to attract really top talent from across the country from fellowship programs across major universities — MIT, Harvard, you name it, Penn come to work here because of the quality of the science.”
Larry sits with Paula Swain Exec. V.P Human Resources, Incyte Corporation.
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