Board of Directors
Solomon S. Steiner
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Solomon S. Steiner co-founded our company and has served as our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since our inception in December 2003. In 1991, Dr. Steiner founded Pharmaceutical Discovery Corporation, or PDC, a biopharmaceutical corporation. Dr. Steiner served as PDC's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors from its inception until December 2001, when PDC was merged with two other companies to form MannKind Corporation. From December 2001 to February 2003, Dr. Steiner served on MannKind's board of directors and as a Corporate Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer. In 1985, Dr. Steiner founded and was the Chairman of the Board of Directors and President of Clinical Technologies Associates, Inc., or CTAI, now known as Emisphere Technologies, Inc. Under his leadership CTAI went public in February of 1989. Dr. Steiner is an inventor of Emisphere's oral delivery system for peptides and mucopolysaccharides. Dr. Steiner is currently an adjunct full professor at New York Medical College and research full professor of psychiatry and neurology at New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Steiner received a Ph.D. from New York University.
Barry Ginsberg
Director
Dr. Barry Ginsberg has been a member of our board of directors since June 2008. Dr. Ginsberg currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Diabetes Technology Consultants and holds over 25 years of experience in diabetes. Prior to Diabetes Technology Consultants, Dr. Ginsberg served as Vice President of Worldwide Medical Affairs in the Diabetes HealthCare Division at Becton Dickinson during his 17 year tenure. Dr. Ginsberg currently serves as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Boards at Agamatrix and Therafuse, and is a Scientific Advisory Board Member at Covidien, Metacure, Glucolight and Becton Dickinson Diabetes HealthCare. Dr. Ginsberg received both an M.D. and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
David Kroin
Director
Mr. David Kroin has been a member of our board of directors since July 2006. Mr. Kroin is a co-founder and managing director of Great Point Partners, LLC, an asset management firm. From December 1998 to September 2003, Mr. Kroin was an investment professional for J.H. Whitney & Co., a private equity firm. Mr. Kroin serves on the board of directors of Gentium S.p.A., a biopharmaceutical company.
Ira W. Lieberman
Director
Dr. Ira W. Lieberman has been a member of our board of directors since December 2004. Since October 2004, Dr. Lieberman has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of LIPAM International, Inc., an advisory and investment firm, which performs advisory and consulting work for the World Bank Institute, client governments, and private sector clients. From July 2003 to October 2004, Dr. Lieberman served as a Senior Economic Advisor to George Soros for the Open Society Institute, a grant making foundation. From February 1993 to July 2004, Dr. Lieberman served in several positions for the World Bank Institute. Dr. Lieberman received an MBA from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Oxford University.
Daniel Lorber
Director
Dr. Daniel Lorber has been a member of our board of directors since December 2004 and since October 2004, a member of our scientific advisory board. Since 1981, Dr. Lorber has served as the medical director of the Diabetes Control Foundation, Diabetes Care and Information Center in Flushing, New York and since 1991, as the director of endocrinology at The New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens. Dr. Lorber is also an attending physician in endocrinology and general internal medicine at the New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens. Since 1994, Dr. Lorber has served as a clinical associate professor of medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Lorber also serves as a consultant in medical, dental and podiatric liability litigation and to the insurance industry on care standards for diabetes mellitus. Dr. Lorber is a member of the board of directors of the American Diabetes Association. Dr. Lorber received an M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed a fellowship in endocrinology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Brian Pereira
Director
Dr. Brian Pereira has been a member of our board of directors since November 2007. Dr. Pereira joined AMAG Pharmaceuticals as President in November 2005, and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in November 2006. Prior to joining the company, he was President and CEO of New England Health Care Foundation, a physician's group at Tufts-New England Medical Center from 2001 to 2005, and held various other positions at Tufts-New England Medical Center from 1993 to 2001. From 2002 to 2004, he served as President of the National Kidney Foundation, and served on the editorial board of twelve scientific journals. Dr. Pereira is a nationally-recognized expert on kidney disease and nephrology, and is the Editor of the widely read textbook "Chronic Kidney Disease, Dialysis and Transplantation" and has over 200 scientific papers to his credit. He is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and at the Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences of Tufts University. Dr. Pereira currently serves on the board of directors of the National Kidney Foundation, Satellite Health Care Inc. and Biodel, Inc. Dr. Pereira is a graduate of St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India and has an MBA from the Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University.
Charles Sanders
Director
Dr. Charles Sanders has been a member of our board of directors since August 2006. Since 1995, Dr. Sanders has served on numerous boards and continues to chair the boards of Project Hope and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. From July 1989 to July 1994, Dr. Sanders served as Chief Executive Officer of Glaxo Inc., a pharmaceutical company, and from 1992 until his retirement in 1995, served as the Chairman of the Board of Glaxo Inc. Previously Dr. Sanders was general director of Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sanders received an M.D. from Southwestern Medical College of the University of Texas. Dr. Sanders serves on the boards of directors of Icagen, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, a biotechnology company, Genentech, Inc., a biotechnology company, Biopure Corporation, an oxygen therapeutic company, and Cephalon, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company.
Scott A. Weisman
Director
Mr. Scott A. Weisman has been a member of our board of directors since December 2004. He is a private investor. From March 2004 to February 2007, Mr. Weisman served as a managing director of McGinn, Smith &Company, Inc., an investment banking firm. From 1998 to September 2003, Mr. Weisman served in various senior positions for H.C.Wainwright & Co., Inc., an investment banking firm. Prior thereto, Mr. Weisman was a practicing securities attorney and a partner in the law firm of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP. Mr. Weisman received a J.D. from Albany Law School.
Samuel Wertheimer
Director
Dr. Samuel Wertheimer has been a member of our board of directors since July 2006. Since 2000, Dr. Wertheimer has been a principal at OrbiMed Advisors, LLC in the private equity funds management group. Dr. Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Wertheimer received a Ph.D. from New York University, and an M.P.H. from Yale University.