Mr. Garner is one of our co-founders and has served as a member of our board of directors since our inception in May 2004, and as chairman of our board of directors since July 2004. Mr. Garner co-founded specialty pharmaceutical companies DJ Pharma (sold to Biovail Corporation in 2000), Elevation Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Evoke Pharma, Inc., Meritage Pharma, Inc., Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Verus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Xcel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (acquired by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International in March 2005) and Zogenix, Inc. He serves as Chairman of Elevation, Evoke, Meritage and Zogenix. He was Chief Executive Officer of Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, from 1989 to 1995 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dura from 1995 until it was sold to Elan in November 2000. Mr. Garner also serves on the board of directors of Aegis Therapeutics. Mr. Garner earned his M.B.A. from Baldwin-Wallace College and his B.A. in biology from Virginia Wesleyan College.
Mr. Atwood has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2006. Since 1999, Mr. Atwood has served as a Managing Director of Versant Ventures I, LLC, Versant Ventures II, LLC and Versant Ventures III, LLC (Versant Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on healthcare that he co-founded). Prior to founding Versant Ventures, Mr. Atwood served as a general partner of Brentwood Associates, a venture capital firm. Mr. Atwood also serves on the board of directors of FivePrime Therapeutics, Inc., Helicos Biosciences Corp., Immune Design Corporation, OpGen, Inc., PhaseRx, Inc., Trius Therapeutics, Inc., and Veracyte, Inc. Mr. Atwood holds a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of California, Irvine, an M.S. in ecology from the University of California, Davis, and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
Dr. Barker has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2006. In March 2001, Dr. Barker co-founded Clearview Projects, Inc., a provider of partnering and transaction services to biopharmaceutical companies, and has served as a principal since that time. Dr. Barker also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Clearview Projects from July 2003 to November 2004. Dr. Barker served in a series of leadership positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company until his retirement in 1999. His positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb included service as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Franchise Management and Strategy during 1998, President, United States Pharmaceuticals from 1992 to 1997, and President, Bristol-Myers Squibb Intercontinental Commercial Operations from 1990 to 1992. Prior to 1990, Dr. Barker held executive positions in research and development, manufacturing, finance, business development and sales and marketing at Squibb Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Barker also serves on the board of directors of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc., a publicly-held biopharmaceutical company, where he serves as chairman. Dr. Barker holds a B.S. from Henderson State College, an M.S. from the University of Arkansas and a Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Dr. Berman has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2006. Since January 2005, Dr. Berman has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Michael A. Berman Group, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in the healthcare industry. Since January 2005, Dr. Berman has also served as a consultant for Stockamp and Associates, Inc., a business process consulting firm specializing in the healthcare industry. From October 1999 to January 2005, Dr. Berman served as Executive Vice President and Director of New York Presbyterian Hospital, and from September 1997 to October 1999 as its Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. From April 1984 to September 1997, he served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Berman holds an M.D. from the State University of New York, Syracuse.
Dr. Blair has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2005. Since 1985, Dr. Blair has served as a Partner of Domain Associates, L.L.C., a venture capital management company focused on life sciences. Present board memberships include Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and nine private companies. Dr. Blair has over thirty-five years experience with venture and emerging growth companies. In the course of this experience, he has been involved in the creation and successful development at the board level of over forty life sciences ventures, including Amgen, Inc., Aurora Biosciences Corporation, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Applied Biosystems, Inc., Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc., GeneOhm Sciences, Inc., Molecular Dynamics, Inc., NuVasive, Inc., Volcano Corporation, and Pharmion Corporation. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and he is on the advisory boards of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and the Stevens Institute for Innovation at the University of Southern California. He received a B.S.E. degree from Princeton University and an M.S.E. & Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Frazier has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2006. In 1991, Mr. Frazier founded Frazier Healthcare Ventures, a venture capital firm, and has served as the managing partner since its inception. From 1983 to 1991, Mr. Frazier served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Immunex Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company. From 1980 to 1983, Mr. Frazier was a principal in the Audit Department of Arthur Young & Company, which is now Ernst & Young LLP. In addition to Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Frazier is a member of the board of directors of Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly held specialty pharmaceutical company, and three privately held companies, Ascension Orthopedics, Inc., a medical device company, and Calixa Therapeutics, Inc., and Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc., both of which are biopharmaceutical companies. Mr. Frazier also serves on the board of managers of healthcare companies Mobile Diagnostic Group Holdings, LLC, and MX Group Holdings, LLC. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association, and serves on the Advisory Counsel of the J. David Gladstone Institute, which is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, the Board of Trustees of the Western Washington University Foundation, and the Board of Trustees of Amara Parenting and Adoption Services. Mr. Frazier received a B.A. in economics from the University of Washington.
Mr. Schroeder is one of our co-founders and has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since our inception in May 2004. From August 2002 to February 2004, he served as Senior Vice President, North American Sales and Marketing, of Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a neuroscience-based pharmaceutical company. From February 2001 to August 2002, Mr. Schroeder served as General Manager of the Hospital Products Business Unit at Elan. Mr. Schroeder held the position of Senior Director of Marketing Hospital Products at Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty respiratory pharmaceutical and pulmonary drug delivery company, from May 1999 to November 2000 until its acquisition by Elan. Prior to joining Dura, Mr. Schroeder held a number of hospital-related sales and marketing positions with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, a global pharmaceutical company. Mr. Schroeder currently serves on the board of directors of the Sharp Hospital Foundation and holds a B.S. in management from Rutgers University.
Mr. Twomey has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2006. Mr. Twomey joined Biosite Incorporated, a medical diagnostic company, in March 1990 and served as its Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer until his retirement in 2007. From 1981 to 1990, Mr. Twomey worked for Ernst & Young LLP, where he served as an Audit Manager. Mr. Twomey also serves on the board of directors of Senomyx, Inc., where he serves as Chair of the Audit Committee. Mr. Twomey holds a B.A. in business economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Dr. Rich has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2008. Dr. Rich is currently Senior Vice President and Global Head of Clinical Operations and Quality of Genentech, Inc., a leading biotechnology company, after having served in various leadership positions with Genentech since 1992, including as Vice President of Development Regulatory, Medical Information, Drug Safety, Quality and Compliance for Genentech from June 2006 until May, 2009. Dr. Rich holds a B.S. in biology from Amherst College, an M.S. in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan, an M.D. from Wayne State University, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
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