Christopher Patusky, J.D., M.G.A.

Vice Chair of the Board Lead Independent Director

Committees: Compensation (Chair), Nominating and Governance

Portrait of United Therapeutics Board of Directors member, Christopher Patusky

Background

Mr. Patusky has more than 30 years of experience in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he clerked and practiced law from 1988 to 2000, focusing on litigation, intellectual property, and business startups. His legal work included co-leading a team that obtained the first approval from the Federal Communications Commission and the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union of the use of stratospheric stations for delivery of telecommunication services worldwide.

After receiving a master’s degree in governmental administration from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, Mr. Patusky served from 2002 to 2007 as the Executive Director and member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government. At Fels, he directed the implementation of a first of its kind performance management system for the 270 schools of the Philadelphia School District, which was recognized by the IBM Business of Government Awards Program. From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Patusky was the Real Estate Director for the Maryland Department of Transportation with oversight responsibility for real estate policy for all modes of transportation, service on the department's sustainability committee and implementation of the Governor's Transit Oriented Development (TOD) program, including the drafting and passage of Maryland's first of kind TOD law.

Since 2012, Mr. Patusky has served as the founding principal of Patusky Associates, LLC, which serves as a personal investment vehicle, and as an executive manager of Slater Run Vineyards, LLC, his family’s farm-based vineyard and winery. Mr. Patusky received a bachelor of science in history and political science from Northwestern University.

Director Qualifications

Mr. Patusky brings to our Board extensive legal, regulatory, business, governance, financial, and international experience from his varied career. Our Board has determined that Mr. Patusky meets the financial sophistication requirements of Nasdaq’s listing standards for Audit Committee members.