Seagen CEO Clay Siegall was arrested within the early hours of April 23 at his house and charged with a fourth diploma home violence gross misdemeanor, in keeping with police information obtained by GeekWire.
Greater than three weeks after the arrest, Seagen introduced Monday that Siegall was taking a depart of absence because the publicly traded Seattle biotech firm investigates allegations of home violence. The corporate didn’t point out the arrest in its announcement.
Based on the police information, officers responded to a name on April 23 from Siegall’s spouse, who instructed 911 dispatch that her husband was hurting her and pushed her to the ground on the couple’s 11,663 square-foot house close to Seattle in Woodway, Wash. She instructed the dispatch she was afraid for her life, but in addition mentioned “please depart and go away,” and “he’ll go loopy, he’s a public determine.”
Police arrived on the entrance door and Siegall’s spouse was fully bare, the police information say. Officers noticed abrasions on her brow and knees. One other man, who was on the house together with his personal spouse, additionally known as police and mentioned he witnessed Siegall assaulting his spouse.
Each Siegall and his spouse appeared intoxicated, in keeping with the police report. The opposite man mentioned all events concerned had sexual relations after going out to dinner earlier within the night.
Siegall instructed police he by no means touched his spouse, the police report mentioned. Officers established possible trigger for home violence and arrested Siegall, who was booked in Snohomish County Jail.
A abstract of jail calls between Siegall and his spouse reveals {that a} day after the arrest, Siegall “thanked her for the chance that he might get fired and that she might have ruined his profession.” Siegall was launched on April 25.
That very same day, Siegall’s spouse went to the Edmonds Police Division and requested images of her bruises from the incident, in keeping with a report from an officer who took the pictures.
Siegall led Seagen’s earnings name with analysts on April 28. On Could 5, the corporate’s board appointed Seagen’s chief medical officer Roger Dansey as interim CEO, in keeping with a regulatory submitting. It issued a press launch Could 9 asserting Siegall’s depart of absence as a result of incident at his house.
Siegall, 61, has denied allegations and knowledgeable the corporate that he’s engaged in a divorce.
“Seagen has excessive requirements for worker conduct and condemns home violence in all its kinds,” the corporate in a press release emailed to GeekWire on Wednesday. “We’re treating these allegations with the utmost seriousness. Dr. Siegall stays on a depart of absence whereas the corporate’s board of administrators, led by a committee of unbiased administrators, conducts a radical investigation with the help of an unbiased legislation agency. The board’s future choices shall be knowledgeable by the result of the investigation.”
GeekWire has contacted Seagen to ask when the corporate discovered of Siegall’s arrest.
Siegall has been Seagen’s CEO since he co-founded the corporate, beforehand often known as Seattle Genetics, in 1998. The corporate’s first oncology drug, Adcetris, was permitted in 2011, and it now has 4 business merchandise and employs 2,800 folks within the Seattle space, Canada, Switzerland, and Europe. Its market capitalization is $22 billion.
Umoja Biopharma on Wednesday introduced that Siegall resigned as chair of the board in response to a request from the corporate’s board of administrators, in keeping with a press release. Umoja CEO Andy Scharenberg will function interim board chair.
GeekWire Managing Editor Taylor Soper contributed to this story.
