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Mr. Ferrara began his career with Eli Lilly & Company. In the course of his twenty-year tenure with Lilly, he served in a number of business areas in the United States and Europe. During his last four years at Eli Lilly, he was Corporate Director of New Product Planning and Licensing. His line management experience also included the management of pharmaceutical operations, including all aspects of marketing and sales, for both Lilly and Dista in France and a member of the Board of Lilly Industries in the United Kingdom. In May, 1984, Mr. Ferrara co-found Polygen Corporation, a computer software company serving the chemical and pharmaceutical research industries, and initiated a number of research and licensing agreements with academic institutions and major health care corporations in the United States, Europe and Japan. Since founding Boston Healthcare in 1993, he has been involved in the development of a number of companies. Presently he serves on the Boards of MGI Pharma and Indevus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., both publicly traded companies, Medisyn Technologies Corporation, and the Pierce Law Center. Mr. Ferrara is a Member of the Corporation of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In addition, Mr. Ferrara has been a guest speaker at Harvard, MIT and Boston College as well as numerous professional meetings and conferences. | 