Mark B. Logan

Mark B. Logan has served as a Director of the Company since March 1999 and was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors in April 2007. From November 1994 until his retirement in May 2001, Mr. Logan was Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of VISX, Inc., a medical device company. Mr. Logan also serves on the boards of STAAR Surgical Company, Gencia Corporation, the University of Virginia Heart & Vascular Center and serves as a trustee of the Southern Environmental Law Center. Mr. Logan holds a B.A. in Biology from Hiram College, was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at New York University, and completed the P.M.D. Program at Harvard Business School.


 

Charles J. Casamento

Charles J. Casamento has served as a Director of the company since April 2008. Since May 2007, Mr. Casamento has been Executive Director and Principal of The Sage Group, Inc., a healthcare advisory group specializing in business development transactions. From October 2004 to April 2007, Mr. Casamento was President and Chief Executive Officer of Osteologix, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. From 1999 until August 2004, he was the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Questcor Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company. He currently also serves as a Director of Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Astex, Inc., and International Stem Cell Corporation. Mr. Casamento holds a B.S. in Pharmacy from Fordham University and an M.B.A. from Iona College.

 

Ernest Mario, Ph.D.

Ernest Mario, Ph.D. joined the Board of Directors of the Company in April 2012. Since August 2007, Dr. Mario has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Capnia, Inc., a privately held company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutic and diagnostic products to address significant unmet healthcare needs. From January 1992 until March 1993, Dr. Mario served as Deputy Chairman of Glaxo Holdings plc., a pharmaceutical company, and as Chief Executive from May 1989 to March 1993. From November 1997 to December 2001, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ALZA Corporation, a research-based pharmaceutical company providing drug delivery solutions, and Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from August 1993 to November 1997. Dr. Mario has served as a Director of Celgene, a biopharmaceutical company, since August 2007 and has been a Director of Boston Scientific Corporation, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices, since October 2001. From April 2003 to August 2007, Dr. Mario served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held pharmaceutical company. He is Chairman of the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education and serves as an advisor to The Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University. Dr. Mario is the recipient of the 2007 Remington Medal, the American Pharmacists Association’s highest honor. Dr. Mario holds a B.S. in Pharmacy from Rutgers University, and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Physical Sciences from the University of Rhode Island.

 

Linda M. Dairiki Shortliffe, M.D.

Linda M. Dairiki Shortliffe, M.D. has served as a Director of the company since June 1999. Dr. Shortliffe has served as Professor of Urology at Stanford University School of Medicine since 1993 and was Chair of the Department of Urology from 1995 to 2011. She has been Chief of Pediatric Urology of Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford since 1991. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics and is a past Trustee and President of the American Board of Urology. Dr. Shortliffe holds an A.B. from Radcliffe/Harvard College and an M.D. from Stanford University.


 

Peter Y. Tam


Peter Y. Tam has served as our President and a Director since October 2009. From January 2009 until October 2009, Mr. Tam served as our Chief Operating Officer. From July 2004 to January 2009, Mr. Tam served as Senior Vice President of Product and Corporate Development of the company. From November 2002 to July 2004, Mr. Tam served as our Vice President of Strategic Planning and Corporate Development. Mr. Tam joined the company in 1993 as Manager of Clinical Research and in 1999 he assumed the responsibilities of Director of Clinical and Corporate Development. Mr. Tam holds a B.S. in Chemistry from University of California Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.


 

Leland F. Wilson

Leland F. Wilson has served as a Director since April 1991 and as Chief Executive Officer since November 1991. Mr. Wilson also served as President from April 1991 until October 2009. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Wilson was Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development of Genelabs Technologies, Inc. from 1989 to 1991. Mr. Wilson was Group Product Director, later promoted to Director of Marketing, at LifeScan, a Johnson & Johnson company, from 1986 to 1989. Mr. Wilson holds a B.S. and an M.S. from Pennsylvania State University and was a Lieutenant in the United States Army.


 

Robert N. Wilson

Robert N. Wilson has served as a director of the Company since April 2013. From 1964 to 2003, Mr. Wilson served in various roles at Johnson & Johnson, a public healthcare company, including the Executive Committee from 1983 through 2003 and Vice Chairman of the board from 1988 through 2003. Since 2007, Mr. Wilson has also been Chairman of Mevion Medical Systems, Inc. (formerly Still River Systems), a medical device company. Since 2003, Mr. Wilson has served as a member of the board of Synta Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a public biopharmaceutical company, and a member of the board of Charles Schwab Corporation, a public brokerage and banking company. Since 1996, he has been a member of the board of Hess Corporation, a public oil and gas company. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Wilson was also Chairman of Caxton Health Holdings, LLC, a healthcare-focused investment firm.