Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the appointment of Caroline Yarbrough as Chief Commercial Officer. Caroline joins Actinium from Novartis where she most recently served as Portfolio General Manager, US Oncology, with full P&L responsibility of a diverse portfolio of brands and development assets with revenues in excess of a billion dollars. Previously, she led the chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) portfolio, a billion-dollar business comprising TASIGNA® and SCEMBLIX®.

She also led strategic account management during the launch period for KYMRIAH®, the first approved CAR-T cell therapy. Prior to Novartis, Caroline's career spanned multiple large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including Glaxo SmithKline (GSK), Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), ViroPharma and Merck, where she held roles with increasing responsibilities. At GSK, she led marketing for Votrient® and Tykerb® in breast cancer, renal cell carcinoma and soft tissue sarcoma, which comprised fifty percent of GSK's oncology revenue for the US.

For nearly a decade, Caroline held roles at BMS leading commercial activities in neuroscience, immunology, multiple myeloma, CML and other solid tumors. Caroline has a BA in Biology from the University of Delaware, where she received the Peter White Undergraduate Research Fellowship, an MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and a drs in International Business from Nijenrode University.