Pursuant to the merger agreement, all of Discovery Partners’ current executive officers will resign immediately prior to the completion of the merger.
Our new lineup:
Note!
"If the proposal to amend Discovery Partners’ bylaws to increase the maximum number of directors that may constitute the entire board of directors of Discovery Partners from 10 directors to 12 directors is not approved at the Discovery Partners special meeting, Dr. Lander will not serve on the corporate governance committee, as he will not serve on the board of directors of the combined company.)
so, the increase to 12 directors is good idea.
Directors:
Steven Holtzman is a co-founder of Infinity and has served as Infinity’s Chief Executive Officer and as Chairman of the Infinity board of directors since 2001. Mr. Holtzman also served as President of Infinity from July 2001 to February 2006. From 1994 to 2001, Mr. Holtzman served as Chief Business Officer of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Holtzman served as a presidential appointee to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, the principal advisory body to the President and Congress on ethical issues in the biomedical and life sciences. Prior to joining Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., from 1986 to 1994, Mr. Holtzman was a founder and Executive Vice President of DNX Corporation, a publicly traded biotechnology company. Mr. Holtzman is a director of Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, and a trustee of The Hastings Center for Ethics and the Life Sciences and Berklee College of Music. Mr. Holtzman received a B.A. in Philosophy from Michigan State University and a B.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
Herm Rosenman has served as a member of the Discovery Partners board of directors since December 2003. Since 2001, Mr. Rosenman has been Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Gen-Probe Incorporated, a publicly traded clinical diagnostics company. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Rosenman was President and Chief Executive Officer of Ultra Acquisition Corp., a holding company with interests in consumer products. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Rosenman was President and Chief Executive Officer of Radnet Management, Inc., a large diagnostic imaging company. Mr. Rosenman also serves as a director of ARYx Therapeutics, a private drug discovery company. Mr. Rosenman received his C.P.A. from New York State, a B.B.A. in Accounting and Finance from Pace College and an M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania.
Eric Lander, Ph.D. is a co-founder of Infinity and has served as a member of the Infinity board of directors since February 2001. Dr. Lander has been a Professor and Associate Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1990 and a Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School since 2004. Dr. Lander has served as the founding Director of The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, a biomedical research institute formed by MIT and Harvard University, since 2003 and as a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research since 1989. From 1993 to 2003, Dr. Lander was the Director of the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research. Dr. Lander is a founder and serves as a director of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. Dr. Lander received an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton and a D.Phil. in Mathematics from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
Franklin Moss, Ph.D. is a co-founder of Infinity and has served as a member of the Infinity board of directors since August 2001. Since 1998, Dr. Moss has been President of Strategic Software Ventures, a firm that nurtures enterprise software startup companies, and since February 2006, Dr. Moss has served as Director of The Media Lab and Weisner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2001 to 2004, Dr. Moss served as Chairman of the Informatics Advisory Board of Infinity. From 1991 to 1996, Dr. Moss served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tivoli Systems, a private software company sold to IBM in 1996. Prior to joining Tivoli Systems, Dr. Moss held a variety of positions with Lotus Development, Stellar Computer, Apollo Computer and IBM Research. Dr. Moss serves on the advisory boards of the Whitehead/MIT Institute for Biomedical Research and the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Moss received a B.S. in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton University and a S.M. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
James Tananbaum, M.D., M.B.A. is a co-founder of Infinity and has served as a member of the Infinity board of directors since February 2001. From 2000 to the present, Dr. Tananbaum has served as Managing Director of Prospect Venture Partners LP II and III, venture partnerships he co-founded. From 1997 to 2000, Dr. Tananbaum served as Chief Executive Officer of Theravance, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Tananbaum served as a partner of Sierra Ventures, a venture capital firm. Dr. Tananbaum also serves as a director of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, a private biopharmaceutical company, and the following publicly traded biopharmaceutical companies: Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Novavax, Inc. Dr. Tananbaum received a B.S.E.E. from Yale University and an M.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard University.
D. Ronald Daniel has served as a member of the Infinity board of directors since August 2001. Since 1957, Mr. Daniel has held various positions with McKinsey & Company, Inc., a management consulting firm, including Managing Partner from 1976-1988. From 1989 to 2004, Mr. Daniel held numerous positions with Harvard University and its affiliated institutions, including Treasurer of Harvard University, Member of the Harvard Corporation, Member of the Board of Overseers, Chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Harvard Medical School and Chairman of the Harvard Management Company. Mr. Daniel also serves as a director of Thirteen/WNET, New York’s public broadcasting station, a trustee of Rockefeller University, Brandeis University and The Brookings Institution, and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan University. Mr. Daniel received a B.A. in mathematics from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Daniel also holds an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Wesleyan University and Honorary Doctor of Laws from Harvard University.
Arnold Levine, Ph.D. has served as a member of the Infinity board of directors since August 2001. Since 2002, Dr. Levine has been a Professor at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine and a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Levine was President of Rockefeller University. Prior to joining Rockefeller University, Dr. Levine was the Harry C. Weiss Professor in the Life Sciences and Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University from 1984 to 1996. Dr. Levine also serves as a director of Theravance, Inc., and Applera Corporation, publicly-traded life science companies. Dr. Levine received a B.A. in Biology from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from The University of Pennsylvania.
Patrick Lee has served as a member of the Infinity board of directors since September 2002. Mr. Lee is a General Partner of Advent Venture Partners, a venture capital firm, and has been employed by Advent Venture Partners since 1999. Prior to joining Advent Venture Partners, from 1989 to 1999, Mr. Lee held various positions with Rhone-Poulenc Rorer in the U.S., and Rhone Poulenc in Paris, France, where he was most recently Group Vice President for Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to that he had been with Baxter International and Booz Allen and Hamilton. Mr. Lee received a B.A. in Biology from Vassar College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Michael Venuti, Ph.D. has served as a member of the Discovery Partners board of directors since May 2003 and became Discovery Partners’ Chief Scientific Officer in April 2005. He assumed the role of Acting Chief Executive Officer of Discovery Partners in November 2005. From 2001 to 2005, Dr. Venuti served as Senior Vice President of Pharmacogenomics and previously had been Senior Vice President of Research and General Manager at Celera South San Francisco, an Applera company, when Applera Corporation acquired Axys Pharmaceuticals in 2001. From 1994 to 2001, Dr. Venuti held various research management positions within Axys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded drug discovery and development company, and its predecessor company, Arris Pharmaceutical Corporation. Dr. Venuti received an A.B. in Chemistry from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Venuti completed post doctoral training at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at Syntex Research, Palo Alto, California.
Anthony Evnin, Ph.D. has served as a member of the Infinity board of directors since June 2001. Since 1980, Dr. Evnin has served as Managing General Partner of Venrock Associates, a venture capital firm, and has been employed by Venrock Associates since 1974. Dr. Evnin also serves as a director of several private companies, as well as the following publicly-traded biopharmaceutical companies: Icagen, Inc.; Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp.; Renovis, Inc.; Coley Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Evnin received an A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Harry Hixson, Jr., Ph.D. has served as a member of the Discovery Partners board of directors since May 2001 and was elected non-executive Chairman in November 2005. Dr. Hixson is currently Chairman of BrainCells, Inc., a private biopharmaceutical company, and served as Chief Executive Officer from its founding until 2005. From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Hixson served as Chief Executive Officer of Elitra Pharmaceuticals, a private biopharmaceutical company, and as its Chairman from 1998 to 2003. Dr. Hixson is also Chairman of SEQUENOM, a publicly-traded human genetics products and services company, and a director of Arena Pharmaceuticals, a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company. Dr. Hixson received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University, an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Physical Biochemistry from Purdue University.
Vicki Sato, Ph.D. has served as a member of the Infinity board of directors since August 2001. From 1992 to 2005, Dr. Sato held various positions with Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company, most recently serving as President from 2000 to 2005. Prior to joining Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., from 1984 to 1992, Dr. Sato held various positions with Biogen, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company, most recently serving as Vice President of Research and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board. Since 1993, Dr. Sato has served on the Board of Tutors, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard University, where she is currently a Visiting Lecturer, and also served as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Harvard University from 1975 to 1983. Dr. Sato is a business advisor to Atlas Ventures, a venture capital firm, and other enterprises in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Dr. Sato serves as an overseer of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and is a trustee of Jose Mateo’s Ballet Theatre. Dr. Sato serves as a director of Perkin-Elmer, Inc., a diversified company with businesses in the life and analytical sciences and optoelectronics, and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. Dr. Sato received an A.B. in Biology from Radcliffe College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University.
Executive Officers
Steven Holtzman. For a discussion of Mr. Holtzman’s biographical information, see “—Directors” in this section.
Julian Adams, Ph.D. has served as President of Infinity since February 2006 and Chief Scientific Officer of Infinity since October 2003. Prior to joining Infinity, Dr. Adams served as Senior Vice President, Drug Discovery and Development with Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 1999 to 2001. Dr. Adams served as Senior Vice President, Research and Development with LeukoSite Inc., a private biopharmaceutical company, from July 1999 until its acquisition by Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in December 1999. Dr. Adams served as a director and Executive Vice President of Research and Development with ProScript, Inc., a private biopharmaceutical company, from 1994 until its acquisition by LeukoSite in 1999. Prior to joining ProScript, Dr. Adams held a variety of positions with Boehringer Ingelheim, a private pharmaceutical company, and Merck & Co., Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. Dr. Adams received a B.S. from McGill University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the field of synthetic organic chemistry.
Adelene Perkins has served as Executive Vice President of Infinity since February 2006 and Chief Business Officer of Infinity since June 2002. Prior to joining Infinity, Ms. Perkins served as Vice President of Business and Corporate Development of TransForm Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a private pharmaceutical company, from 2000 to 2002. From 1992 to 1999, Ms. Perkins held various positions at Genetics Institute, now a business unit of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc., most recently serving as Vice President of Emerging Business and General Manager of the DiscoverEase ® business unit. From 1985 to 1992, Ms. Perkins held a variety of positions at Bain & Company, a strategy consulting firm. Ms. Perkins received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Villanova University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Other Key Employees
Jeffrey Tong, Ph.D. has served as Vice President, Corporate and Product Development of Infinity since 2005 and has been employed by Infinity since October 2001. Prior to joining Infinity, Dr. Tong was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc. from 2000 to 2001. Prior to joining McKinsey & Company, Inc., Dr. Tong was a founding researcher of the Harvard Center for Genomics Research. Dr. Tong has served on the Board of Tutors, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard University since 2005. Dr. Tong received an A.B. from Harvard College, an M.M.S. from Harvard Medical School and an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
David Grayzel, M.D. has served as Vice President, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs of Infinity since January 2006 and has been employed by Infinity since September 2002. Prior to joining Infinity, Dr. Grayzel served as Director of Corporate Development and Business Operations at Dyax Corp., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, from 2001 to 2002. Dr. Grayzel received a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
James Wright, Ph.D. has served as Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development of Infinity since June 2004. Prior to joining Infinity, from 2003 to 2004, Dr. Wright served as Vice President of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. From 1995 to 2003, Dr. Wright served as Senior Vice President of Development at Alkermes, Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. Dr. Wright currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy, Instructor for Pharmaceutical Solids Short Course and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Research Station at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Wright also works with Medicine in Need, a non-profit organization at Harvard University. Dr Wright received a B.A. in Biology and Chemistry from the University of California Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin.
Michael Foley, Ph.D. is a co-founder of Infinity and has served as Vice President, Chemistry of Infinity since 2001. Prior to joining Infinity, from 1999 to 2001, Dr. Foley was a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology, or ICCB, a joint academic institute between Harvard Medical School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and served as Head of Chemical Technology for the ICCB from 1999 to 2001. Prior to joining the ICCB, Dr. Foley held various positions in the field of medicinal chemistry at Bristol-Myers Squibb, a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company, and GlaxoSmithKline, a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company. Dr. Foley is also a founder of CombinatoRx Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company, and serves as a member of its scientific advisory board. Dr. Foley received a B.S. in Chemistry from St. Norbert College and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University.
Vito Palombella, Ph.D. has served as Vice President, Biology of Infinity since January 2004. Prior to joining Infinity, from 2000 to 2004, Dr. Palombella served as Director of Molecular Biology and Protein Chemistry at Syntonix Pharmaceuticals, a private biopharmaceutical company. From 1999 to 2000, Dr. Palombella served as Senior Director of Cell and Molecular Biology at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Palombella served as Senior Director of Cell and Molecular Biology with LeukoSite, Inc. from July 1999 until its acquisition by Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in December 1999. Dr. Palombella held a variety of positions with ProScript, Inc. from 1994 until its acquisition by LeukoSite in 1999, most recently serving as Senior Director of Cell and Molecular Biology. Dr. Palombella received a B.S. in Microbiology from Rutgers University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Viral Oncology and Immunology from the New York University Medical Center. Dr. Palombella served as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University in the laboratory of Dr. Tom Maniatis. |
