Board of Directors

Rachel Kreppel

Counsel

Purdue Pharma L.P.

Rachel has been a member of LES since 2002 and has served as the Vice President Public Policy and Standards. She has been an active member of LES participating on the Public Policy Committee for the last several years. She currently serves as a Trustee at Large.

Rachel is Senior Assistant General Counsel for Purdue Pharma L.P. in Stamford, Connecticut. She manages patent litigation, primarily Hatch-Waxman cases, and settlements of patent litigation. She also is involved with IP licensing. After law school, Rachel went directly in house to Purdue. At the beginning of her career, her work was focused on licensing agreements to support Purdue’s discovery research and other research groups, including licensing agreements with universities.

In 1999, Rachel received her B.S. in Chemistry with a minor in Management (concentrating on Entrepreneurship) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She attended Chicago-Kent College of Law in its Honors Scholars program and received a J.D. with a certificate in Intellectual Property in 2002. She is admitted to practice in the states of Connecticut and New York and the USPTO.