Jeremy Hayward-Surry, Chairman
Former President, Pall Corporation Alan W. Dunton, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Panacos Pharmaceuticals Inc. Laurent Fischer, M.D. President and CEO, Ocera Therapeutics, Inc. Jeremy Hayward-Surry has served as a director since December 1997 and as Chairman since June 2006. He was the President of Pall Corporation, a global company operating in the fields of filtration, separations and purification, from July 1994 through July 2003 and a member of its Board of Directors from April 1993 through November 2003. Mr. Hayward-Surry was also the Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of Pall from August 1992 until December 1997 and Executive Vice President of Pall from 1992 to July 1994. Mr. Hayward-Surry is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Alan W. Dunton, M.D. has served as our Chief Executive Officer and a director since January 2007 and as our president since July 2007. Since 2005, Dr. Dunton has served as the non-executive chairman of the board of directors of ActivBiotics, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company. Previously, he was the president and chief executive officer of Metaphore Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2003 until 2005, when it merged with ActivBiotics. From 2004 until 2005, Dr. Dunton served as a member of the board of directors of Vicuron Pharmaceuticals until it was acquired by Pfizer, Inc. In 2002, Dr. Dunton served as president, chief operating officer and a director of Emisphere Technologies, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. From 1994 to 2001, Dr. Dunton was a senior executive in various capacities in the Pharmaceuticals Group of Johnson & Johnson. From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Dunton was president and managing director of The Janssen Research Foundation, a Johnson & Johnson company. From 1998 to 1999, he served as group vice president of global clinical research and development of Janssen. Prior to joining Janssen, Dr. Dunton was vice president of global clinical research and development at the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, also a Johnson & Johnson company. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Dr. Dunton held positions in clinical research and development at Syntex Corporation, CIBA-GEIGY Corporation and Hoffmann La Roche Inc. Dr. Dunton also presently serves as a member of the board of directors of the following public companies: Targacept, Inc.; Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, Inc.; and MediciNova, Inc. Dr. Dunton holds a M.D. degree from New York University School of Medicine, where he completed his residency in internal medicine. He also was a Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology at the New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center. Laurent Fischer, M.D. has served as a director since October 2006. Dr. Fischer has been President and CEO of Ocera Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics for gastrointestinal and liver diseases, since 2005. Prior to Ocera, Dr. Fischer was President and CEO of Auxeris Therapeutics, Inc. from 2000 to 2005 and President and COO of RXCentric.com, Inc. from 1999 to 2000. Both of these companies were privately held. Dr. Fischer served as Senior Vice President of the Global Virology Franchise at Dupont Pharmaceuticals/Dupont-Merck from 1997-1999 where he launched the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor SUSTIVA for the treatment of HIV. From 1993-1997, Dr. Fischer served as Medical Director for the Virology Group at Hoffman-LaRoche, Ltd. where he was involved in the launch of INVIRASE and developed FORTOVASE, protease inhibitors for the treatment of HIV. He received his M.D. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Fischer has served on the board of directors of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world's largest provider of AIDS care, since 2001.
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