Advisory Council
The KGI Advisory Council provides industry insight, marketplace feedback, and support for KGI's corporate outreach. The council includes leaders from biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, service, and bio companies.
General Manager, Advanced Monitoring, Edwards Lifesciences
CEO, Amira Pharmaceuticals
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Apricus Biosciences, Inc.
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Minipumps, LLC and Replenish, Inc.
Linda Castle, research director for Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont company
CEO, Vessix Vascular, Inc.
Director, Product Support R & D, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Vice President, Translational Medicine and Tailored Therapeutics, Eli Lilly & Co.
US Business Development Executive, Epistem
President and CEO, BioCentury
Director, Florida Research Consortium
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, UVP LLC
President and Chief Executive Officer, Avi Biopharma
Vice President & General Manager, PCR Systems Business Unit, Life Technologies
President, Ceraxa, Inc.
Vice President, Human Resources, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Science Fellow, Monsanto Co.
Principal, Guiheen and Associates LLC
President and Chief Executive Officer, Ceres
Vice President Human Resources, Illumina
Director Corporate Strategic Planning, Beckman Coulter
Vice President, Biologics Manufacturing and Development, Allergan
Director, Global Scientific Market Affairs, Alcon Research Ltd
President & CEO of OCTANe
Vice President, Business Development, deCODE
Executive Consultant in Medical Devices
Senior Scientific Fellow, Fluidigm Corp.
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Research and Development, SentrX Animal Care
Executive Vice President, Human Resources, CareFusion Corporation
Founder and General Partner, Axiom Venture Partners
Managing Director, xIQ
National Biotech Sales Manager, NovaBiomedical
Global Head of Cataract & Corneal R&D, Abbott Medical Optics
Vice President, International Supply Chain, Amgen
President & CEO, Solidus Biosciences
Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer, Proteus
Executive Director of Licensing & External Research-West Coast, Merck
Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Alder Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Staff Scientist and Group Leader in the Late Stage Pharmaceutical and Device Development Department, Genentech
Chief Scientific Officer, OxThera
Managing Director, California Technology Ventures, LLC
Co-founder, President and CEO, Nanotherapeutics
Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Advanced Clinical Science & Research, Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
Vice President of Operations, XOMA
Executive Director, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Sr. VP, Life Sciences-Business Development Strategic Operating Unit, Tunnell Consulting
Vice President, Intel Architecture Group General Manager, Incubation and Innovation Group, INTEL Corporation
President, Sensorin
President & CEO, Clinisense
Advisors Emeriti
Bruce Alberts
Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Gary Augusta
Consultant
Luis J. Berga
Chief Executive Officer, Luis Berga & Associates
Rolando Brawer
Director, Business Development & Licensing, Life Technologies
Alexander M. Capron
University Professor of Law and Medicine, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics
Shu Chien
Professor and Director, Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at San Diego
T. (Teo) Forcht Dagi, MD
Partner, HLM Venture Partners
Larry Gold
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, SomaLogic
BJ Hull
Site Director (retired), Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Robert L. Jones
Vice President, Human Resources, CancerVax
Vaughn M. Kailian
Vice Chairperson, Head of Commercial Operations and Therapeutic Franchises (retired), Millennium Pharmaceuticals
Gail Maderis
President, Bay Bio
Alfred E. Mann
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Bionics
Stephen J. McCormack
Chief Executive Officer, Exela
Michael A. Mussallem
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Edwards Lifesciences
Stephen D. O'Connor
Chief Executive Officer, Nanostream
Joseph D. Panetta
President and Chief Executive Officer, BIOCOM
Kal Ramnarayan
Founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer, Sapient Discovery
John B. Rogers
President and Chief Executive Officer, EcoArray
Tony Russo
Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer, Russo Partners
David Sadava
Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology, Joint Science Department, The Claremont Colleges
Thomas P. Stagnaro
President and Chief Executive Officer, Americas Biotech Distributor
Brian Sullivan
Product Development Team Leader, ICX Agentase
Daniel Vapnek
Founding Senior Vice President of Research (Retired), Amgen
J. Craig Venter
President, The Center for the Advancement of Genomics
Bradley Wigglesworth
Site Manager (retired), Gilead
Rick Winningham
CEO, Theravance
