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. |