Biography

• RustyRay
  Rusty Ray
  

  Chairman
  
  Rusty Ray has been a director since December 2009 and Chairman of the Board of Directors since April 2012. He has served as our Lead Independent Director since March 2011 and has served as a member of our Compensation, Audit, Corporate Governance/Nominating and Finance Committees since 2009.
  
  He is currently a partner with Brocair Partners, a healthcare-focused investment bank, and has been with Brocair Partners since its founding in 2004. Since joining Brocair, he has worked with a wide variety of clients across the healthcare industry ranging from large pharmaceutical companies to early-stage drug development companies to medical device and service-based companies. Prior to joining Brocair Partners, Mr. Ray served as Deputy Director for eight years with Resources for the Future (“RFF”) a non-partisan Washington-based think tank that conducts independent economic research. During his tenure at RFF, the organization conducted a number of studies related to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Beyond life sciences, Mr. Ray also worked on issues related to emissions credit trading and utility restructuring. Prior to joining RFF, Mr. Ray worked with The Meningitis Research Foundation in London where he worked to support basic research to cure the disease.
  
  Ray holds an M.B.A. degree in Finance from the Fordham University School of Business, and received a B.S. degree in Biology from Wake Forest University. Mr. Ray was determined to be a suitable director based in part on his experience advising life sciences companies in matters of finance, corporate communications and business development.