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William H. Cunningham, Ph.D. Former Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of The University of Texas System William H. Cunningham, Ph.D., has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2000. Dr. Cunningham served as Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of The University of Texas System from 1992 to 2000, in addition to holding the Lee Hage and Joseph D. Jamail Regents Chair in Higher Education Leadership. He served as President of The University of Texas at Austin, a component institution of the University of Texas System, from 1985 to 1992. He currently holds the James L. Bayless Chair for Free Enterprise at The University of Texas at Austin´s McCombs School of Business. Dr. Cunningham serves on a number of public commissions, private corporate boards and in a number of advisory roles to corporations. Dr. Cunningham serves on the board of directors of John Hancock Funds and John Hancock Funds III. He also serves on the board of directors of Lincoln National Corporation, Southwest Airlines, Inc., LIN Television Corporation and Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc., each of which is a publicly-traded corporation. Dr. Cunningham received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. from Michigan State University. In 1993, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Michigan State University. Dr. Cunningham was awarded the Presidential Citation from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Back to Top |
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S. Malcolm Gillis, Ph.D. Past President, Rice University Dr. Gillis has served as a member of our Board since February 2004. Dr. Gillis served as the President of Rice University from 1993 through June 2004. From 1996 through 2004, he was also the Ervin Kenneth Zingler Professor of Economics at Rice University where he continues to teach. Dr. Gillis has been honored with the designation of University Professor, the highest faculty designation at Rice University. Before entering university leadership, he spent the first 25 years of his professional life teaching economics and applying economic analysis to public policy in almost 20 countries, from the United States and Canada, to Ecuador, Colombia, Ghana and Indonesia. His research and teaching have primarily been in the areas of fiscal economics and environmental policy. Dr. Gillis served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Duke University from 1991 to 1993, and he served as Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Duke University from 1986 to 1991. He is presently a member of the board of directors of Service Corporation International, Halliburton Company, Electronic Data Systems Corporation and AECOM Technology Corporation, each of which is a publicly-traded corporation. Dr. Gillis also serves on the board of directors and board of trustees of many foundations, educational associations and community organizations. In 2002, he was appointed to the Governor´s Task Force for Texas Economic Growth. Dr. Gillis received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He received his M.A. and B.A. from the University of Florida. In 1992, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Rocky Mountain College. Back to Top |
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Peter Barton Hutt Partner, Covington & Burling Peter Barton Hutt has served as a member of our Board since August 2004. Mr. Hutt has been a partner or senior counsel specializing in food and drug law in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling since 1968, except when he served as Chief Counsel for the FDA from 1971 to 1975. He is the co-author of a casebook used to teach food and drug law throughout the country and teaches a full course on this subject each year at Harvard Law School. Mr. Hutt currently serves on the board of directors of Favrille, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, CV Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, XOMA, Ltd., a biopharmaceutical company, and Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company, all of which are publicly-traded companies. Mr. Hutt also serves on the board of directors of several privately-held biopharmaceutical companies and on several venture capital advisory boards, including Polaris Venture Partners and the Sprout Group. Mr. Hutt is also a former member of the board of directors of IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a company that pioneered monoclonal antibody based treatments for cancer and autoimmune disorders. Mr. Hutt received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Yale University, an L.L.B. from Harvard Law School and an L.L.M. in Food and Drug Law from New York University Law School. Back to Top |
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John N. Kapoor, Ph.D. President of EJ Financial Enterprises, Inc. John N. Kapoor, Ph.D., served as Chairman of our Board since inception in June 1993 until 2007. In 1990, Dr. Kapoor founded EJ Financial Enterprises, Inc., a healthcare consulting and investment company, and he is presently its president and sole shareholder. He is also chairman of the board of directors of Akorn, Inc., Option Care, Inc. and NeoPharm, Inc., each of which is a publicly-traded corporation, and of several privately-held biopharmaceutical companies. Dr. Kapoor also serves as a member of the board of directors of NeoPharm, Inc. and Duska Therapeutics, Inc., each of which is a publicly-traded corporation, and of several privately-held biopharmaceutical companies. Dr. Kapoor received a B.S. degree from Bombay University and a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Back to Top |
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Charles E. Long Former Vice Chairman of Citicorp and subsidiary Citibank Charles E. Long has served as a member of our Board since January 2001. Mr. Long is former vice chairman of Citicorp and its principal subsidiary, Citibank. Mr. Long held various positions during his career with Citicorp, which began in 1972. From 1982 to 1998, he headed Citicorp’s External Affairs Division, which includes the Government Relations Division in Washington, D.C. From 1976 to 1982, he was responsible for managing Citicorp’s international consumer banking business, as well as legal and external affairs for consumer banking worldwide. Mr. Long is a trustee of the Midwest Research Institute. He has served as an officer, director or trustee on a number of corporate, charitable and public boards, including vice chairman of Georgetown University, vice chairman and director of Woodrow Wilson House Museum and Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. Mr. Long is also a director of The Drummond Company. Mr. Long is a member of the board of directors of Gendux AB, our wholly-owned subsidiary. Mr. Long received his B.B.A. in business from St. John’s University. In 1998, he received an Honorary Doctor of Business Degree from St. John’s University. Back to Top |
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David G. Nance Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Introgen Therapeutics, Inc. David G. Nance has served as a member of our Board of Directors and as our President and Chief Executive Officer since our inception in June 1993 and became Chairman of the Board in 2007. From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Nance served as the Managing Partner of Texas Biomedical Development Partners, the investment group that founded Introgen. Mr. Nance received the 2006 Albert Einstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Life Sciences for his work in developing new cancer therapies. Back to Top |
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Robert Pearson Vice President, Communities and Conversations, Dell Inc. Robert 'Bob' Pearson has more than 20 years of management and product experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Pearson’s past experience includes senior management positions in multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical organizations, both domestically and internationally. Prior to joining Dell, he worked in Basel, Switzerland for Novartis Pharmaceuticals (NYSE:NVS) as head of Global Corporate Communications and as head of Global Pharma Communications, where he served on the Pharma Executive Committee. Before his tenure at Novartis, Mr. Pearson was president of The Americas for GCI and was responsible for creating and building that firm´s global healthcare practice. He was previously vice president of Global Public Affairs & Media Relations at Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (now Sanofi Aventis) and worked at CIBA-GEIGY (now Novartis) in both communications and field sales. Mr. Pearson has been part of pharmaceutical product launch teams in all regions of the world and has experience with treatments, supportive care and cancer patient advocacy. Mr. Pearson graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in communications and completed his MBA at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has served on the boards of Cancer Care and The Huntington's Disease Society of America and currently serves on the boards of The Dell Foundation, The Association for Multiple Impaired and Blind and as vice-chair of The Emerging Technology Committee for the State of Texas. Back to Top |
