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Mr Peter Oppenheimer Peter Oppenheimer, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, joined Apple Inc in July 1996. Mr. Oppenheimer also served the Company as Vice President and Corporate Controller and as Senior Director of Finance for the Americas. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Oppenheimer was Chief Financial Officer of one of the four business units for Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (“ADP”). Prior to joining ADP, Mr. Oppenheimer spent six years in the Information Technology Consulting Practice with Coopers and Lybrand. Mr. Oppenheimer received a bachelors degree from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo and an M.B.A. from the University of Santa Clara. He is an Independent Director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc since 2014.
Mr Alexander Denner Alexander J. Denner, Ph.D., joined Biogen Board of Directors in 2009. Dr. Denner serves as Chair of Biogen Corporate Governance Committee and is a member of Biogen Finance Committee and Risk Committee. Dr. Denner is a founding partner and Chief Investment Officer of Sarissa Capital Management LP, a registered investment advisor formed in 2012. Sarissa Capital focuses on improving the strategies of companies to better provide shareholder value. From 2006 to 2011, Dr. Denner served as a Senior Managing Director at Icahn Capital, an entity through which Carl C. Icahn conducts his investment activities. Prior to that, he served as a portfolio manager at Viking Global Investors, a private investment fund, and Morgan Stanley Investment Management, a global asset management firm. Dr. Denner is also a director of VIVUS Inc. and ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc., both healthcare companies.
Mr Leonard D. Schaeffer Mr Leonard D. Schaeffer has been a Senior Advisor for TPG Capital since 2006 and a partner at North Bristol Partners LLC since 2006. From 2007 to 2011 Mr Schaeffer served as the chairman of the board of Surgical Care Affiliates LLC. From November 2004 to November 2005, Mr Schaeffer served as Chairman of the Board of WellPoint, Inc. He is a director at Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. From 1992 until 2004, Mr Schaeffer served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of WellPoint Health Networks, Inc. He was a director of Allergan, Inc, from 1993 to May 2011, serving as Chair of its Organization and Compensation Committee and as a member of its Corporate Governance Committee, and serves as a director of Quintiles Transnational Corp since 2008, serving as Chair of its Corporate Governance and Compliance Committee and on its Audit Committee. Mr Schaeffer was a director of the National Institute for Health Care Management from 1993 to 2005 and has served on its Advisory Board from 2005 to present. Mr Schaeffer has been the Chairman of the Board, from 1989 to 2004, and Chief Executive Officer, from 1986 to 2002, of Blue Cross of California, President and Chief Executive Officer of Group Health Inc. Mr Schaeffer was employed by the Department of Health and Human Services in 1978, the Illinois Bureau of the Budget from 1975 to 1976 and the Illinois Department of Mental Health from 1972 to 1975. Mr Schaeffer was named the Judge Widney Professor and Chair at the University of Southern California in 2007 and serves on the board of The Brookings Institution, the RAND Corporation and the board of fellows of Harvard Medical School. Mr Schaeffer is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mr Shane M. Cooke Mr Shane M. Cooke is a member of board of directors at Endo International plc since July 30, 2014. He is employed by Alkermes Pharma Ireland Limited, an Irish subsidiary of the company. From May 2005 to September 16, 2011, Mr Cooke served as a Director of Elan. From May 2007 to September 16, 2011, Mr Cooke was Executive Vice President of Elan and Head of EDT and had been Chief Financial Officer of Elan from July 2001, when he joined Elan, until May 2011. Prior to joining Elan, Mr Cooke was Chief Executive of Pembroke Capital Limited, an aviation leasing company, and prior to that held a number of senior positions in finance in the banking and aviation industries. He is a chartered accountant.
Mr Shantanu Narayen On September 27, 2013, the Companys Board of Directors elected Shantanu Narayen to serve as a member of the Board, effective September 27, 2013. Mr. Narayen, 50, is the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Adobe Systems Incorporated and serves on Adobes Board of Directors. Prior to his appointment as CEO in December 2007, he held various leadership positions at Adobe, including President and Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Products, Senior Vice President of Product Development, and Vice President and General Manager of the Engineering Technology Group. Director at Pfizer Inc since 2013. Mr. Narayen is a member of the U.S. President's Management Advisory Board, established in 2010 to provide advice on how to implement best business practices, including the application of technology, on matters related to federal government management and operation. He is a director of Dell Inc., serves on the Advisory Board of the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, and is President of the board of the Adobe Foundation, which funds philanthropic initiatives around the world. Mr. Narayen received a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Osmania University in India, a master's degree in computer science from Bowling Green State University and a master's degree in business administration from the Haas School of Business.
Mr Michael Casey Michael D. Casey has served as a director since March 2004. Mr. Casey was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Matrix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from September 1997 until February 2002 when Matrix was acquired by Chiron Corporation. From November 1995 until September 1997, Mr. Casey was President, Retail and Specialty Products Divisions of Schein Pharmaceutical, Inc. Mr. Casey was President and Chief Operating Officer of Genetic Therapy, Inc. from June 1993 until November 1995. Mr. Casey held various positions at Johnson & Johnson companies over a twenty-five year period, including serving as President of McNeil Pharmaceutical from July 1989 to June 1993. Mr. Casey is currently a director of two other biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies (Celgene Corporation and Abaxis, Inc.). In addition, during the last five years, Mr. Casey served on the Board of Directors of the following public companies: AVI Biopharma, Inc., Allos Therapeutics, Inc., Cholestech Corporation, and OrthoLogic Corporation. Mr. Casey’s executive leadership experience with pharmaceutical companies and his expertise with respect to sales, marketing and commercialization of pharmaceutical products are among the qualifications he brings to the Board and his service as a Director of the Company.
Mr Irwin B. Federman Mr Irwin B. Federman has served as a member of Intermolecular Inc board of directors since June 2005. Mr Federman brings to our board of directors an extensive knowledge of the semiconductor industry as well as public company governance experience. Mr Federman has been a managing member at U.S. Venture Partners, a venture capital firm, since April 1990. Mr Federman is a director of SanDisk Corp since September 1988. Mr Federman was President and Chief Executive Officer of Monolithic Memories, Inc., a semiconductor company, from 1979 to 1987, where he also served as the Chief Financial Officer from 1970 to 1979. Mr Federman also serves on the board of directors and as a member of the audit and compensation committees of the board of directors for each of SanDisk Corporation, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a security software company, and Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a semiconductor company. Mr Federman also serves on the board of directors for various private corporations, including Neoconix, Inc., ON24, Inc., Silego Technology, Inc. and Supply Frame, Inc., as well as charitable trusts, including the San Francisco Ballet, the Brooklyn College Foundation and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Previously, Mr Federman served as a director of Centillium Communications, Inc., a developer and supplier of communications integrated circuits, and Nuance Communications, Inc., a speech recognition software company. Mr Federman holds a B.S. in Economics from Brooklyn College and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from Santa Clara University.
Gavin Swartzman Mr. Swartzman has been a Managing Director of the Company since October 2004. He is responsible for corporate development and real estate for MDC and its operating companies. Mr. Swartzman served as an officer in a similar capacity for the Company from September 2002 until February 2003. Prior thereto, Mr. Swartzman joined Amadeus Capital Corporation in 2000 as Senior Vice President where he was responsible for various corporate development activities of that company and its affiliates, including serving as the Vice President, Corporate Development from February 2003 to October 2004 for First Asset Management Inc., a Toronto based asset management company. Prior thereto, he was Executive Vice President of Pet Valu International Inc., a retail chain.
Alexander Lee Mr. Lee is the managing director of Al Yousuf, LLC, a Dubai-based company that operates a range of businesses in the electronics, information technology, transportation and real estate sectors. Mr. Lee joined Al Yousuf, LLC as a managing director in December 2009. From September 2009 to October 2009, Mr. Lee was president and chief operating officer of Phoenix Cars, LLC, an Al Yousuf, LLC entity that in September 2009 acquired assets from Phoenix MC, Inc., a developer of electric vehicles which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April 2009. From February 2009 to August 2009, Mr. Lee was the president and chief operating officer of Phoenix MC, Inc. Mr. Lee joined Phoenix MC, Inc. in January 2008 as its executive vice president, and he served as its executive vice president and chief operating officer from March 2008 to February 2009. Prior to Phoenix MC, Inc., Mr. Lee worked at Rapiscan Systems, a developer, manufacturer and distributor of x-ray, gamma-ray and computed tomography products. Mr. Lee was vice president of strategic planning at Rapiscan from February 2006 to December 2007. Mr. Lee joined Rapiscan as the head of its government contracts and proposals group in October 2003. Mr. Lee earned a bachelor of arts degree from Brown University and a juris doctorate degree from the King Hall School of Law at University of California Davis. On April 1, 2012, the Board of Directors of the Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. appointed Alexander Lee as the interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
Mr Michael Hogan Mr. Hogan was appointed to the Board in 2006. Michael Hogan is a business consultant and 30 year veteran of the electric power industry. He is President and CEO of Enact Power Ltd., providing business development support to companies pursuing electric power investment in Canada and internationally. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Hogan was President and CEO of SaskPower Commercial Inc., the international development arm of SaskPower. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) and ICD. Mr. Hogan has also completed the Director Education Program and holds the ICD.D designation.
Mr Peter Marks Peter Marks has served as a director of our company since July 2005. For the period November 21, 2006 to October 20, 2010, Mr. Marks has also served as Executive Chairman of iSonea Ltd, formally KarmelSonix Ltd, a medical devices company listed on the ASX that is focused on developing and commercializing a range of devices in the respiratory and medicine space. Mr. Marks is currently also a director if Peregrine Corporate Limited, an Australian-based investment bank, and Watermark Global Plc, an AIM listed company, which commercializes the treatment and recycling of acid mine drainage water from South African mines. From September 1998 until March 2001, Mr. Marks was employed by KPMG Corporate Finance Ltd (Australia), where he rose to Director and was responsible for heading up the equity capital markets group in Melbourne. From January 1992 until July 1994, Mr. Marks served as Head of the Melbourne Companies Department at the ASX and was founding Director of Momentum Funds Management Pty Ltd, an Australian venture capital firm. From December 1990 until December 1991, Mr. Marks served as Director of Corporate Finance at Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd in their Melbourne offices, from August 1988 until November 1990, he held senior corporate finance position at Barings Securities Ltd, and from July 1985 until July 1988, he served as an Associate Director of Mclntosh Securities, now Merrill Lynch Australia. In his roles with these various financial institutions, Mr. Marks was responsible for advising a substantial number of listed and unlisted companies on issues ranging from corporate and company structure, to valuation, business strategies, acquisitions and international opportunities. Mr. Marks holds a Bachelor of Economics degree, a Bachelor of Law degree and Graduate Diploma in Commercial Law from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and an MBA degree from the Scottish School of Business at the University of Edinburgh.
Mr Lachlan Murdoch Lachlan K. Murdoch has been a Director of the Company since 1996. Mr. L.K. Murdoch has served as a Director of Ten Network Holdings Limited since 2010 and as its Non-Executive Chairman since February 2012, after serving as its Acting Chief Executive Officer from 2011 to January 2012. Mr. L.K. Murdoch has served as the Executive Chairman of Illyria Pty Ltd, a private investment company, since 2005. Mr. L.K. Murdoch served as an advisor to the Company from 2005 to 2007, and served as its Deputy Chief Operating Officer from 2000 to 2005. Mr. L.K. Murdoch is the son of Mr. K.R. Murdoch and the brother of Mr. J.R. Murdoch. He is a Chairman at 21st Century Fox since July 2015.
Mr Chase Carey Chase Carey is Deputy Chairman of Twenty-First Century Fox since 2009. He has been the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company and Deputy Chairman of the Board since July 2009. Mr. Carey previously served the Company in numerous roles beginning in 1988, including as Co-Chief Operating Officer from 1996 to 2002, as a consultant from 2002 to 2003 and as a Director from 1996 to 2007. Mr Carey has served as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Sky Deutschland AG, a German pay-television operator and affiliate of the Company, since July 2010. Mr. Carey served as a President and Chief Executive Officer of DIRECTV from 2003 to 2009 and as a Director of DIRECTV from 2003 to June 2010. Mr. Carey also served as a Director of BSkyB from 2003 to 2008 and as a Director of Yell Finance B.V. from 2004 to 2007.
Mr David DeVoe David F. DeVoe was appointed as a Director of the Company on 15 December 1994. Mr DeVoe has been a Director of News Corporation and its CFO since October 1990. Mr DeVoe has served as Senior Executive Vice President of News Corporation since January 1996. Mr DeVoe has been a Director of NDS Group plc (“NDS Group”) since October 1996.
Mr Roderick Eddington Sir Roderick I. Eddington has been a Director of the Company since 1999 and the Lead Director since 2006, and serves as the Chairman of the Audit Committee and as a member of the Compensation Committee. Sir Roderick Eddington has served as Non-Executive Chairman, Australia and New Zealand of J.P. Morgan since 2006. He served as a Director and the Chief Executive of British Airways Plc from 2000 to 2005 and as the Managing Director of Cathay Pacific Airways from 1992 to 1996. Sir Roderick Eddington has been a Director of John Swire & Sons Pty Ltd since 1997, a Director of CLP Holdings Limited since 2006, and a Director of Lion Pty Ltd since 2011 and its Chairman since April 2012. Sir Roderick Eddington served as a Director of Allco Finance Group Limited from 2006 to 2009 and as a Director of Rio Tinto plc from 2005 to 2011.
Ms Maria M. Klawe Since 2006, Dr. Klawe has been President of Harvey Mudd College, a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California that focuses on engineering, science, and mathematics. Dr. Klawe served as Dean of Engineering and a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University from 2003 to 2006, and held several positions at the University of British Columbia from 1988 to 2002 including Dean of Science, Vice President of Student and Academic Services, and head of the Department of Computer Science. Public Company Directorships in the Last Years : Microsoft Corporation; Broadcom Corporation. Dr. Klawe joined the Microsoft Board in March 2009 and Broadcom Corp since May 6, 2011.
Mr Satya Narayana Nadella Mr. Nadella was named President, Server and Tools in February 2011. Before holding that position, he had a number of leadership positions at Microsoft, including Senior Vice President Research and Development for the Online Services Division since 2008 and Corporate Vice President, Research and Development for the Advertising Platform since 2007. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Nadella led Microsoft Business Solutions. Prior to that, he spent several years leading engineering efforts in Microsoft’s Server group. Mr. Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 and became CEO at Microsoft since Feb 4, 2014.
Mr David Marquardt Mr. Marquardt is a founding general partner of August Capital, a venture capital firm formed in 1995, and has been a general partner of various Technology Venture Investors entities, which are private venture capital limited partnerships, since August 1980. In addition to his public company board service, Mr. Marquardt also serves on the boards of various privately-held companies. Public Company Directorships in the Last Five Years : Microsoft Corporation; Openlane, Inc.; Seagate Technology, Inc.
Mr Reed Hastings Reed Hastings has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2011. Mr. Hastings has served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors of Netflix, Inc., a provider of an Internet subscription service for movies and television shows, since 1999. Prior to Netflix, Mr. Hastings served as Chief Executive Officer of Technology Network, a political service organization for the technology industry. Mr. Hastings served as Chief Executive Officer of Pure Atria Software, a maker of software development tools, from 1991 until it was acquired by Rational Software Corporation, a software company, in 1997. In addition to serving on our board of directors, Mr. Hastings currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Hastings holds a B.A. in mathematics from Bowdoin College and an M.S.C.S. in computer science from Stanford University.
Mr Diane Bryant Bryant joined Intel in 1981 as controller for the Commercial Memory Systems Operation and in 1983 became Systems Group Controller. In 1987 he was promoted to director of Finance for the corporation, and was appointed vice president and director of Finance of the Intel Products Group in 1990. Bryant became CFO in February 1994, and was promoted to senior vice president in January 1999. Bryant expanded his role to Chief Financial and Enterprise Services Officer in December 1999. In October 2007, Bryant was named Chief Administrative Officer. In 2009 Bryant's responsibilities expanded to include the Technology and Manufacturing Group. Bryant was named a director and vice chairman of Intel's Board of Directors in July 2011 and chairman of the Board in May 2012 Prior to joining Intel, he held positions in finance at Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation. Bryant holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Missouri and a master's degree in business administration with a concentration in finance from the University of Kansas.