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Board of Directors and Advisory Board
- Randal J. Kirk
- Founder and Chairman of the Board of New River Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: NRPH) since 1996 and President and Chief Executive Officer since October 2001. Mr. Kirk began his professional career in the private practice of law. Mr. Kirk co-founded General Injectables & Vaccines, Inc. (GIV), a pharmaceutical distributor, in 1983 and served as Chairman of the Board of GIV prior to the sale of that company in 1998. Previously, Mr. Kirk served as a member of the board of directors of Scios, Inc. (previously traded on NASDAQ prior to its acquisition by Johnson & Johnson) between February 2000 and May 2002, and was a member of the board of directors of Howe and Rusling, Inc., a registered investment advisory firm, from 2001 through 2006. He has served on the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Policy Advisory Board since March 2004. Mr. Kirk also currently serves in a number of additional capacities: Senior Managing Director of Third Security, LLC, an investment management firm founded by Mr. Kirk, since March 1999; Chairman of Biological & Popular Culture LLC, an automated proactive notification software and service company, since September 2002, and Chairman of its predecessor from October 1999 to September 2002; and as Chairman of the board of directors of Clinical Data, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDA) since December 2004 and as a member of the board of directors since September 2002. Mr. Kirk has served on the Board of Visitors of Radford University since July 2003 and was elected Rector of the Board in September 2006, and has also served on the board of directors of the Radford University Foundation, Inc. since September 1998. He was appointed to the Virginia Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates in July 2006. Mr. Kirk received a B.A. in Business from Radford University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.
- Larry D. Horner
- Krish S. Krishnan
- Prior to joining Third Security, LLC, Mr. Krishnan was actively involved
with a start-up venture, Suppliermarket, that was sold to Ariba Technologies
Inc. in 2000. Formerly with Ariba, he was a senior manager with A.T.
Kearney where he advised Fortune 50 companies on strategic and operational
issues. In addition, Mr. Krishnan previously served as a consultant
with KPMG Peat Marwick and as an engineer with E.I. Dupont de Nemours.
He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology, his M.S. in Engineering from University of Toledo, and
his M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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