C4 Therapeutics, Inc. announced the continued evolution of its Board of Directors with the appointment of Steve Hoerter as a director. Mr. Hoerter has over three decades of executive management, commercial and board experience, most recently serving as the president and chief executive officer of Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by ONO Pharmaceutical for $2.4 billion in June 2024. He transformed Deciphera from a clinical-stage company into a fully integrated global organization with the successful approval and launch of QINLOCK® for the treatment of advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors in the U.S. and Europe, while advancing the company?s pipeline of novel product candidates.

Prior to Deciphera, he was chief commercial officer of Agios Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for building the company?s commercial organization to enable the launches of its first two approved products in the U.S., TIBSOVO® and IDHIFA®, both for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. Earlier in his career, he served as chief commercial officer of Clovis Oncology and held general management and commercial roles at Roche, Genentech, Chiron Corporation (acquired by Novartis) and Eli Lilly and Company. Mr. Hoerter is on the Board of Directors of ORIC Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology company, and has previously served on the Boards of Constellation Pharmaceuticals (acquired by MorphoSys), Deciphera Pharmaceuticals and Ignyta (acquired by Roche).

He earned his B.A. from Bucknell University, his M.B.A. from Tilburg University in the Netherlands and an M.S. in management from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University.