
Dr. Gold will serve as our Chairman of the Board of Directors until June 30, 2012, and will then continue his role as a director. Dr. Gold has served as a director since May 2002. Dr. Gold previously served as our President and Chief Executive Officer from January 2003 to January 2012. Dr. Gold also served as our Vice President of Business Development from June 2001 to May 2002, and as our Chief Business Officer from May 2002 through December 2002. From April 2000 to May 2001, Dr. Gold served as Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Data Critical Corporation, a company engaged in wireless transmission of critical healthcare data, now a division of GE Medical. From 1995 to April 2000, Dr. Gold was the President and Chief Executive Officer, and a co-founder of Elixis Corporation, a medical information systems company. From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Gold was a resident physician in the Department of Urology at the University of Washington. Dr. Gold currently serves on the boards of the University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Prostate Cancer Institute and the Washington Biotechnology and BioMedical Association and on the governing board of the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Dr. Gold received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.D. from Rush Medical College.