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Leader Biography

Stephen Schiavo

Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer


Stephen Schiavo serves as Alkermes’ Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer. In this role, he leads the Human Resources function, with responsibility for global compensation and benefits, talent acquisition, HR business partnering, employee engagement, organization and leadership development and diversity & inclusion.

Mr. Schiavo has more than 20 years of HR Business Partner and HR leadership experience helping to develop and grow organizations, teams and individuals. Before joining Alkermes in 2018, he was Vice President of Human Resources for Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where he served as the Head of their HR Business Partner function. Prior to joining Vertex, Mr. Schiavo worked in the Financial Services industry where he held a number of senior human resource positions at Prudential Financial and Cigna.

Mr. Schiavo earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Boston University and a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations degree from Cornell University.

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