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Jay D. Kranzler, M.D., Ph.D. – Cypress
Bioscience, Inc.
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
See Management Team for Biography
Roger L. Hawley
Roger L. Hawley has served as a director since April 26, 2007.
Since February 2006, Mr. Hawley has served as chief executive officer
and a director of Zogenix, Inc., a privately-held specialty pharmaceutical
company. From 2003 until January 2006, Mr. Hawley served as executive
vice president, commercial and technical operations of InterMune, Inc,
a publicly-held biopharmaceutical company. From 2002 to 2003, Mr. Hawley
served as chief commercial officer at Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.,
a specialty pharmaceutical company. From 2001 to 2002, Mr. Hawley served
as vice president/general manager of sales and marketing at Elan Pharmaceuticals,
Inc., a publicly-held biopharmaceutical company. From 1987 to 2001,
Mr. Hawley held various management positions in corporate finance,
sales, and marketing at GlaxoSmithKline, Inc. Prior to joining GlaxoSmithKline,
Mr. Hawley spent 12 years in financial management with Marathon Oil
Company. Mr. Hawley also serves as a director of Targeted Genetics
Corporation, a publicly-traded clinical-stage biotechnology company,
and Alios BioPharma Inc., a privately-held biotechnology company. Mr.
Hawley holds a B.S. in accounting from Eastern Illinois University.
Amir Kalali, M.D.
Dr. Kalali is currently Vice President, Medical and Scientific Services,
and Global Therapeutic Team Leader CNS, at Quintiles Inc., focusing
on developing novel compounds for the treatment of disorders of the
central nervous system. He is globally responsible for the medical
and scientific aspects of development programs in psychiatry and neurology.
He is also Professor of Psychiatry at University of California San
Diego. He was the Founding Chairman of the Executive Committee of the
International Society for CNS Drug Development (ISCDD), and currently
the Executive Secretary. Dr. Kalali received his M.D. from the University
of London, United Kingdom. He completed his psychiatry training at
University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London University.
Dr. Kalali has been an academic investigator in over 70 psychopharmacological
clinical trials and at Quintiles has had medical and scientific responsibility
for over 150 clinical trials. Dr. Kalali regularly presents at national
and international scientific meetings, and lectures frequently on psychopharmacological
and drug development topics. Dr. Kalali is the Editor of the journal
Psychiatry, and is on the editorial board of several other journals.
He has published widely in journals such as the Archives of General
Psychiatry, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the British Journal
of Psychiatry. Dr. Kalali is an active member of the Scientific Advisory
Boards of many pharmaceutical companies and sits on the Board of Directors
of the Neuroscience Education Institute and Tikvah Therapeutics.In
2005 and 2006 PharmaVOICE magazine named Dr. Kalali as one its 100
most inspiring leaders in the life sciences.
Jon W. McGarity
Jon W. McGarity has served as a director since March 2004. Mr. McGarity
is the President and Chief Executive Officer of EthiX Associates, which
he founded in 1996 and which is a company that provides executive consulting
services in pharmaceutical/biotech/healthcare business planning, strategy
and development. Prior to establishing EthiX Associates, Mr. McGarity
was the Vice Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer of Pharmaceutical
Marketing Services, Inc., which provided marketing and information
services to the global pharmaceutical/healthcare industry. Mr. McGarity
is a member of the board of the Global Advisory Council at Thunderbird,
The Garvin School of International Management, Chairman of the Board
of Directors of the Arizona BioIndustry Association and serves on the
Board of Directors of the Arizona Technology Council, the Masters Level
Computational Biosciences Degree Program and the Technopolis Program
at Arizona State University. Mr. McGarity also serves on the Board
of Directors of two private biotechnology companies, Ribomed Biotechnologies,
Inc. and Cynexus Corporation.
Perry B. Molinoff, M.D.
Dr. Molinoff, a neuropharmacologist with an M.D. from Harvard, and since
November 2003 has been the Vice Provost for Research at the University
of Pennsylvania. He holds a faculty position in the Department of Pharmacology
and was the A.N. Richards Professor of Pharmacology at the University
of Pennsylvania. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Physiology and
Neuroscience at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston,
SC. In addition to his faculty appointments from January 1995 until
March 2001, Dr. Molinoff was the Vice President - Neuroscience and
Genitourinary Drug Discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical
Research Institute, Wallingford, CT, where he was responsible for implementing
and directing the Institute's research efforts in multiple therapeutic
areas. He established a multidisciplinary structure to facilitate rapid
development of drugs directed against a variety of therapeutic targets
across a broad spectrum of neurologic, psychiatric and genitourinary
diseases, including stroke, depression, sleep disorders, obesity, Alzheimer's
disease, analgesia and neuropathic pain, urinary incontinence and erectile
dysfunction. From September 2001 until November 2003, Dr. Molinoff
served as Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Palatin
Technologies, Edison, NJ, where he was responsible for all basic, preclinical
and clinical research. Programs included the recently approved NeuroSpect
for imaging infection including equivocal appendicitis and PT-141,
a melanocortin agonist being developed for the treatment of sexual
dysfunction. Dr. Molinoff has been a member of the Board of Directors
of Palatin Technologies since November 2001. He is a member of multiple
editorial advisory boards for scientific and educational journals and
has authored or edited 6 books including Basic Neurochemistry and Goodman
and Gilman's text, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, as well
as over 225 manuscripts.
Tina S. Nova
Tina S. Nova, Ph.D., has served as a director since April 26, 2007.
Dr. Nova is a co-founder of Genoptix, Inc., a provider of personalized medicine
services, and has served as its President and Chief Executive Officer and
as a member of its board of directors since March 2000. Dr. Nova was a co-founder
of Nanogen, Inc., a provider of molecular diagnostic tests, where she served
as Chief Operating Officer and President from 1994 to January 2000. From
1992 to 1994, Dr. Nova served as Chief Operating Officer of Selective Genetics,
a targeted therapy, biotechnology company. From 1988 to 1992, Dr. Nova held
various director-level positions with Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated,
a drug discovery and development company, most recently serving as Executive
Director of New Leads Discovery. Dr. Nova has also held various research
and management positions with Hybritech, Inc., a former subsidiary of Eli
Lilly & Company, a pharmaceutical company. Dr. Nova is the life science
sector representative to the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee overseeing
the implementation of the California stem cell initiative, Proposition 71.
Dr. Nova also serves on the board of directors of Arena Pharmaceuticals,
Inc., a publicly traded clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. Dr. Nova
holds a B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine
and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Riverside.
Daniel H. Petree
Daniel H. Petree has served as a director since June 2004. Mr. Petree is a
founder and member of P2 Partners, LLC, a boutique investment bank specializing
in life sciences companies, which he co-founded in 2000. From 1998 to 1999,
Mr. Petree was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Axys Pharmaceuticals,
a structure-based drug design company based in South San Francisco. From
1993 to 1998, he also held successive positions at Axys (and its predecessor,
Arris Pharmaceuticals) as Executive Vice President of Business Development
and Chief Financial Officer. From 1992 to 1993, Mr. Petree was Vice President
of Business Development at TSI Corporation, a clinical research organization
in Worcester, MA. Mr. Petree's operating management experience was preceded
by five years in investment banking at Montgomery Securities. He also practiced
as a corporate and securities lawyer with Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe
in Palo Alto, CA.
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