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Board of Directors
June 18, 2013
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DuPont Pharmaceuticals
Former President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Mirapoint, Inc.
Managing Member, Baker Bros. Advisors, LLC
Founder and Managing Director, venBio
Former Chief Marketing Officer and President, Global Marketing Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
President and Chief Executive Officer, Incyte Corporation
Former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Incyte Corporation
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DuPont Pharmaceuticals
Richard U. De Schutter has been Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors since 2004. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company from July 2000 to October 2001. He served as Chief Administrative Officer at Pharmacia Corporation between April 2000 and July 2000. From January 1999 through March 2000, Mr. De Schutter served as Vice Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer of Monsanto Company. He served as Chief Executive Officer of G.D. Searle & Co. from April 1995 to December 1998. Mr. De Schutter is also a director of Smith & Nephew plc and several privately held companies.
Former President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Mirapoint, Inc.
Barry M. Ariko retired from Mirapoint, Inc. in November 2007, where he had served as its President and Chief Executive Officer since November 2003 and as its Chairman of the Board since December 2003. From April 2001 until September 2001, Mr. Ariko was Senior Vice President of Peregrine Systems, Inc., an infrastructure management software company, and from April 2001 until June 2002 was a member of its Board of Directors. From March 2000 until the acquisition of Extricity, Inc. by Peregrine in April 2001, Mr. Ariko served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Extricity, an internet software provider. From March 1999 to January 2000, Mr. Ariko was a Senior Vice President of America Online, Inc., where he was responsible for the Netscape Enterprise Group. From August 1998 until the acquisition of Netscape Communications Corporation by America Online in March 1999, Mr. Ariko served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Netscape. From 1994 to August 1998, Mr. Ariko was Executive Vice President of Oracle Corporation.
Managing Member, Baker Bros. Advisors, LLC
Julian C. Baker is a Managing Member of Baker Bros. Advisors, LLC, which he and his brother, Felix Baker, Ph.D., founded in 2000. Mr. Baker’s firm manages Baker Brothers Investments, a family of long-term investment funds for major university endowments and foundations which are focused on publicly traded life sciences companies. Mr. Baker’s career as a fund manager began in 1994 when he co-founded a biotechnology investing partnership with the Tisch family. Previously, Mr. Baker was employed from 1988 to 1993 by the private equity investment arm of Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation. He is also a director of Genomic Health, Inc.
Founder and Managing Director, venBio
Paul A. Brooke is a founder and Managing Director of venBio, LLC, a pharmaceutical investment company. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alsius Corporation, a medical device company, from June 2007 through its sale in 2009, and was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of a predecessor company from 2005 to June 2007. Mr. Brooke has been the Managing Member of PMSV Holdings, LLC, a private investment firm, since 1993. He has also served as a Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated from April 2000 through 2009, and was a Venture Partner at MPM Capital, a venture capital firm specializing in the healthcare industry, from 1997 through 2006. From April 1999 through May 2000, Mr. Brooke served as a Managing Director at Tiger Management LLC. He was a Managing Director and the Global Head of Healthcare Research and Strategy at Morgan Stanley & Co. from 1983 to April 1999. Mr. Brooke is also a director of ViroPharma Incorporated and several privately held companies.
Former Chief Marketing Officer and President, Global Marketing Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Wendy Dixon, Ph.D., was Chief Marketing Officer and President of Global Marketing at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company from December 2001 until May 2009 and served on the CEO’s Executive Committee. From 1996 to 2001 she was Senior Vice President, Marketing – USHH at Merck and prior to that she held executive management positions at West Pharmaceuticals, Osteotech, Inc. and Centocor, Inc. and various positions at SmithKline & French Pharmaceuticals (now GSK) in marketing, regulatory affairs, project management and as a biochemist. Dr. Dixon is also on the board of directors of Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., Alkermes, Inc., and Furiex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and previously served as a director of Dentsply International, and Ardea Biosciences, Inc. Dr. Dixon serves as a Senior Advisor for The Monitor Group, a privately owned global management consulting firm.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Incyte Corporation
Paul A. Friedman, M.D., joined the company as the Chief Executive Officer in November 2001 and has been President of the company since May 2004. From 1998 until October 2001, Dr. Friedman served as President of DuPont Pharmaceuticals Research Laboratories, a wholly owned subsidiary of DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company (formerly The DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company), from 1994 to 1998 he served as President of Research and Development of The DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company, and from 1991 to 1994 he served as Senior Vice President at Merck Research Laboratories. Prior to his work at Merck and DuPont, Dr. Friedman was an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Friedman is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Friedman is also a director of Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Incyte Corporation
Roy A. Whitfield co-founded the company and served as Chairman of the Board from November 2001 until June 2003. Mr. Whitfield served as Chief Executive Officer of the company between June 1993 and November 2001, as President of the company from June 1991 until January 1997, and as Treasurer of the company between April 1991 and October 1995. From 1984 to 1989, he held senior operating and business development positions with Technicon Instruments Corporation, a medical instrumentation company, and its predecessor company, Cooper Biomedical, Inc., a biotechnology and medical diagnostics company. Prior to his work at Technicon, Mr. Whitfield spent seven years with the Boston Consulting Group's international consulting practice. He also serves as a director of Illumina, Inc., Nektar Therapeutics and several privately held companies.