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People
- Directors
Our
Board of Directors believes that the purpose of corporate governance
is to ensure that stockholder value is maximized in a manner
consistent with the strategic plans for our company, legal requirements,
the highest standards of integrity, and other standards. Our
Board adheres to corporate governance practices which the Board
and senior management believe promote this purpose and are sound.
The Board is comprised of 7 voting members. Currently there
is 1 vacancy.
Board
of Directors:
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R.
Gary Mesch
Chairman, CEO,
MicroPhage, Inc.
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Mr. R. Gary
Mesch has been the Chairman of MicroPhage as of June 2007. Mr.
Mesch comes to MicroPhage as the current managing director of
Alpine Angels, a Vail Valley-based angel investment group that
organizes financing for and advises start-up technology companies.
Mr Mesch is also an active director of several start-up companies
funded through Alpine Angels members. Mr. Mesch has been the
founder and Managing Director of several successful data and
telecom companies operating in the U.S. and Europe and has been
instrumental in launching several other start-up enterprises.
Mr. Mesch founded VersaTel telecom in 1995 in Amsterdam and
served as CEO and then Chairman until 2002. VersaTel grew to
become the second facilities based telecom operator throughout
The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. In 2005 Versatel was
purchased by Tele2 of Sweden and Apax Partners for $1.5 billion.
Previous to VersaTel, Mr. Mesch as Managing Director of Open
Skies, Inc., a telecom consulting company based in Amsterdam,
advised European telecom operators on launching innovative services.
From 1984 to 1990 he was co-founder of Nova-Net communications,
Inc. a Denver-based nationwide data network provider that was
sold to ICG, a Denver-based CLEC telecom company. Mr Mesch holds
a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado
and an MBA from the University of Denver.
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Larry
Gold, Ph.D.
Director, Scientific Advisory Board Chairman.
Chairman
and Chief Scientific Officer,
SomaLogic, Inc (Boulder CO) |
Dr. Gold
is the founder of SomaLogic, Inc of Boulder CO. He was also
the founder of NeXagen, which later became NeXstar Pharmaceuticals,
Inc. Dr. Gold was a director at NeXstar from its inception in
1991 and was Chairman of the Board from February 1993 until
July 1999. He was Executive Vice President of Research and Development
of NeXstar from March 1991 to February 1995. In February 1995,
he was named Chief Scientific Officer of NeXstar. From January
1981 to June 1988, Dr. Gold served as Co-Director of Research
for Synergen, Inc. Dr. Gold was also a founder of Synergen.
Dr. Gold has been a professor at the University of Colorado
at Boulder (CU) since 1970. From 1988 to 1992, he also served
as Chairman of the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental
Biology where he received the CU Distinguished Lectureship Award.
While maintaining his affiliation with CU, Dr. Gold now has
only minimal responsibilities at the university. Dr. Gold received
the National Institutes of Health Merit Award and the Career
Development Award and was awarded the Chiron prize for Biotechnology
in 1995. Dr. Gold has been a member of the National Academy
of Sciences since 1995 and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences since 1993. Dr. Gold is also a member of MicroPhages
Scientific Advisory Board and Bacteriophage Advisory Board.
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Stephen
K. Onody
Director.
Managing
Director Onody and Associates (Aurora CO) |
Mr. Onody
was previously the Chief Executive Officer and President of
Lifeline Therapeutics and brings 28 years of experience in healthcare
companies, most recently serving as Chairman and CEO of Colorado
MEDtech (CMED), a publicly-traded NASDAQ company in Denver.
He previously served in senior management roles at Boston Scientific
Corporation, SpaceLabs Medical, and Vital Signs, Inc. Mr. Onody
has been the recipient of several entrepreneurial and leadership
awards while serving as Chairman and CEO of Colorado MEDtech,
including Entrepreneur of the Year, Ernst & Young-sponsored
Finalist 2002; Denver Post Top-100 Performing Public Companies,
four (4) consecutive years; Deloitte & Touche Colorado Technology
Fast 50 Award, four (4) consecutive years; and Fortune Magazine
100 fastest Growing Companies, 2001.
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Photios
"Fred" Paulson, MS
Director.
Former Chairman, bioMerieux Vitek, Inc.
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Mr. Paulson
has a proven track record with over 40 years of experience in
the healthcare industry having held senior management positions
at leading medical devices companies as well as in the healthcare
investment banking field. Mr. Paulson began his career at Becton
Dickinson, a NYSE-traded company engaged in the manufacture
and sale of a broad range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory
equipment and diagnostic products, where he served for over
25 years in various capacities, and was ultimately appointed
as executive vice president and chief operating officer. More
recently, Mr. Paulson served as Chairman of bioMerieux Vitek
Inc., an internationally recognized company that develops, manufactures
and markets reagents and automated instruments used for in vitro
infectious disease diagnostics. Prior to this, Mr. Paulson spent
3 years as a senior advisor, healthcare and international investment
banking with Prudential Securities. Mr. Paulson has served as
a director of numerous healthcare companies over the past 10
years. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at
Harvard University, and holds an MS in Industrial Management
and a BS in Mechanical Engineering, both from Stevens Institute
of Technology.
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Mark
Schwartz, MD, JD
Director.
Founding Partner, Shelist and Schwartz, LLP.
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Dr. Schwartz
received his undergraduate degree in 1983 from Cornell University,
majoring in immunology and genetics. Thereafter, he obtained
both his Medical Doctorate (University of Illinois College of
Medicine, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honorary Society, 1988)
and Juris Doctorate (John Marshall Law School, magna cum laude,
1994) in Chicago, Illinois. Currently, Dr. Schwartz is a member
of Alpine Angels, a Colorado-based private equity group, and
is a practicing attorney with several offices nationwide. Dr.
Schwartz serves on a number of boards and is a consultant and
advisor to numerous start-up companies.
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John
H. Wheeler
Director.
Founder, Vice President - Business Development
MicroPhage, Inc. |
Mr. Wheeler
brings 30 years of business experience in the biomedical and
diagnostics fields to the Company. Prior to founding MicroPhage
Incorporated , Mr. Wheeler founded Xtrana, Inc.(NASDAQ:XTRN)
as its President and CEO, a molecular diagnostics company specializing
in nucleic acid extraction and detection. Previous to Xtrana,
he served as Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business
Development at Xenometrix, Inc. a molecular toxicology company,
from 1993 to 1997. From 1992 to 1993, Mr. Wheeler was Director
of Sales and Marketing for Research Biochemicals, Ltd. and from
1987 to 1992, Mr. Wheeler was employed by Charles River Laboratories
where he held positions including Director of Operations and
Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Prior to 1987, he held
positions in sales, marketing and strategic business planning
both in the United States and Europe with Becton Dickinson Company.
Mr. Wheeler received his M.B.A. from Pace University, New York
in 1986 and his B.A. in biology from the University of Bridgeport
in 1970. Mr. Wheeler currently serves as the Chair of the Colorado
BioScience Association (CBSA), representing over 100 Colorado
companies.
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