Matthew Young

Matthew P. Young is a managing director of Longitude Capital. Prior to joining Longitude Capital in 2022, Mr. Young was the chief operating officer and chief financial officer of GRAIL, a developer of blood cancer tests that was acquired by Illumina for $8 billion in 2021. Prior to joining GRAIL in October 2019, Mr. Young served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Jazz Pharmaceuticals – a role he held since February 2015. He served as a senior vice president and the chief financial officer of Jazz beginning in 2014 after working as the senior vice president of corporate development of Jazz since joining the company in 2013. Prior to joining Jazz, Mr. Young worked in investment banking for approximately 20 years, most recently as a managing director in global healthcare of Barclays Capital Inc., an investment banking firm, where his role included acting as the co-head of life sciences at Barclays Capital. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Young served as a managing director of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., an investment banking firm, and from 2003 to 2007, as a managing director of Lehman Brothers Inc., an investment banking firm. In 2015, he joined the board of directors of PRA Health Sciences Inc., a contract research company. Mr. Young received a B.S. in economics and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.