Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Dr. Crooke was a founder of Isis and has been Chief Executive Officer and a director since January 1989. He served as Isis` President from January 1989 to May 1994, and was elected Chairman of the Board in February 1991. SmithKline Beckman Corporation, a pharmaceutical company, employed Dr. Crooke from 1980 until January of 1989, where his titles included President of Research and Development of SmithKline and French Laboratories. He serves as a director of Antisense Therapeutics Ltd., a biopharmaceutical company, Axon Instruments, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of novel high-technology devices and software for drug discovery, and EPIX Medical, Inc., a developer of magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents. Dr. Crooke is also an adjunct professor of pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, and San Diego State University.
Chairman and Managing Director, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
Dr. Berthelsen was elected to the Isis Board of Directors in May 2002. Since 1980, he has practiced Internal Medicine with the Kelsey Seybold Clinic, a 280 physician medical group based in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. Dr. Berthelsen has served in various senior leadership positions at Kelsey Seybold including Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Director, and Chairman of the Board of Directors since October 2001. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Berthelsen has served on the Board of the Texas Academy of Internal Medicine and the Caremark National Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee since 1999.
Professor and the Jack and Linda Gill Distinguished Chair, Biomolecular Science, Indiana University
Richard D. DiMarchi, Ph.D. has served as a Director of Isis since December 2004. He has been a professor and the Jack and Linda Gill Distinguished Chair in Biomolecular Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana since August, 2003. Prior to joining Indiana University, Dr. DiMarchi worked for 22 years at Eli Lilly and Company in several senior management positions, including Group Vice President, Biotechnology and Product Development, from 1996 to 2003, and Vice President, Endocrine Research and Clinical Investigation, from 1992 to 1996.
Mr. Klein joined the Company's Board of Directors in December 2005. Mr. Klein is currently Managing Director of Gauss Capital Advisors, LLC, a financial consulting and investment advisory firm focused on biopharmaceuticals, which he founded in March 1998. In addition to his investment advisory and financial consulting activities, Mr. Klein currently serves as a Venture Partner of Red Abbey Venture Partners, LP, a life sciences private equity fund. As an active life sciences investor and industry analyst, Mr. Klein has over 15 years of experience finding and analyzing life sciences opportunities for mutual funds, investment banks and biopharmaceutical companies.
Frederick T. Muto has served as a Director of Isis since March 2001. Mr. Muto joined the law firm of Cooley Godward LLP, outside counsel to Isis, in 1980 and became a partner in 1986. He is a founding partner of Cooley Godward's San Diego office and serves as the partner in charge of that office. Mr. Muto also serves on that firm's management committee.
Ms. Parshall has served as a director of Isis since September 2000. She has served as the Company's Chief Operating Officer since December 2007 and Chief Financial Officer since 1994. Ms. Parshall joined Isis in 1991 as a Vice President, being promoted in 1993 to Senior Vice President and in 1995 to Executive Vice President. Ms. Parshall has served as Secretary to the Board of Directors since 1991. Prior to joining Isis, Ms. Parshall practiced law at Cooley Godward LLP, now Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, outside counsel to Isis, where she was a partner from 1986 to 1991. Ms. Parshall is on the Board of Trustees of the Bishops School. Ms. Parshall is also a member of the Licensing Executives Society and a member of the American, California and San Diego bar associations.
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Burnham Institute
Dr. Reed has served as a director of Isis since February 2002. He has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Burnham Institute, an independent, nonprofit, public benefit organization dedicated to basic biomedical research, since January 2002. Dr. Reed has been with The Burnham Institute for the past ten years, serving as Director, Oncogene and Tumor Suppressor Gene Program, as the Deputy Director of the Cancer Center beginning in 1994, as Scientific Director beginning in 1995, and as Cancer Center Director in 2002. He also currently serves as adjunct professor in the University of California, San Diego`s (UCSD) Department of Molecular Pathology and in San Diego State University's Biology department. In addition, Dr. Reed is an associate member of UCSD`s Cancer Center. Prior to these positions, from 1989 to 1992, Dr. Reed worked as Assistant Director, Laboratory of Molecular Diagnosis at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Mr. Wender has served as a director of Isis since January 1994. He currently is Senior Director of the Financial Institutions Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., an investment banking firm. He joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1971 and became a General Partner of that firm in 1982 and a Limited Partner in 1992. He is also a director of First Coastal Bancshares, a bank holding company, and Affinity Financial, an Internet financial institution.
** Mr. Frederick T. Muto, J.D. serves as counsel to the Nominating, Governance and Review Committee.
