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Chairman of the Board of Directors of Virtual
Arrays Lev Leytes
From ___ to 2000, Mr. Leytes was the Principal Founder, Chairman
of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of LJL Biosystems,
Inc. He was responsible for strategy, executive team building,
venture capital financing, IPO on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange in
1998, and merger with Molecular Devices (NASDAQ: MDCC) in 2000,
creating a combined enterprise with a market capitalization exceeding
$1 billion upon merger. Mr. Leytes holds an M.S., Engineering,
Moscow Engineering Institute.
J. Gordon Foulkes, Ph.D. is currently
the Executive Vice President of Research & Development and Director
of Elitra Pharmaceuticals, San Diego. Prior to joining Elitra,
Dr. Foulkes served as Chief Technical Officer of Aurora Biosciences
Corporation, a biotechnology company, from 1996 to 1998, and Chief
Scientific Officer of Oncogene Science, Inc., a biotechnology
company, from 1987 to 1996. From 1981 until 1987, Dr. Foulkes
held academic positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and The Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom. Dr. Foulkes
holds a Ph.D. from the University of Dundee in Scotland.
Daniel Janey is a general partner
of the venture firm, Alta Partners, San Francisco. Prior to Alta,
he was a senior investment banker at Montgomery Securities. His
responsibilities included public offerings, strategic advisory
assignments and advice on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
for life science companies. Previously, Mr. Janney was at Bankers
Trust Company in the leveraged buyout/private equity group. Mr.
Janney sits on the Board of several companies including, Dynavax
Technologies, DiscoveRx, Corgentech, Inc., and TransMedics, Inc.
He holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from
the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles.
John Freund, M.D. is the founder
and a general partner of Skyline Ventures, Palo Alto, California.
John has been a founder of a number of companies backed by venture
capital firms including Zyomyx, Triad, and Intuitive Surgical
(NASDAQ:ISRG) He was previously a senior executive of Acuson Corporation.
He was also a general partner in two different venture capital
funds and the co-founder of the Healthcare Group in the Corporate
Finance Department of Morgan Stanley in New York, New York. He
received a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.D. from Harvard
Medical School. He also received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business
School, where he was a Baker Scholar and won the Loeb Fellowship
in Finance as well as the Entrepreneur of the Year Award for a
business he founded while in business school. He serves on the
board of Allos Therapeutics Inc., (NASDAQ: ALTH), DiscoveRx Corp.,
MediVance, Inc., Nimblegen Systems, Reconstructive Technologies,
Inc., Triad Therapeutics, Inc., XenoPort and Zyomyx,Inc. and was
previously on the board of LJL Biosystems prior to its acquisition
by Molecular Devices.
Jeff Bird M.D., Ph.D. is a general
partner of Three Arch Partners, Palo Alto, California, a venture
capital firm. Prior to joining Three Arch, Jeff was Senior Vice
President, Business Operations at Gilead Sciences, a public biotechnology
company (NASDAQ: GILD). In that role he had responsibility for
the companyÕs commercial and operations groups, including Sales
& Marketing in the US and Europe. He led the formation of corporate
alliances with Glaxo Wellcome, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Roche, and
American Home Products. He also managed the $550 million acquisition
of NeXstar Phamaceuticals. Jeff received a BS in Biological Sciences
from Stanford University. He completed his MD, and a Ph.D. in
Cancer Biology, at Stanford University Medical Center.
Mark Weeks is a general partner
of Venture Law Group, Menlo Park (1993). Prior to joining Venture
Law, Mark worked at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Mark's practice
at VLG emphasizes the corporate representation of emerging growth
companies like Virtual Arrays, venture capital firms and investment
banks. Mark Weeks received his B.A. from Williams College in 1983
and graduated from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1987,
where he was Articles Editor for the Santa Clara Computer and
High Technology Law Journal and Co-Chairman of the Santa Clara
Moot Court competition.
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