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.
Vice President, Operations, Endologix
General Manager, Advanced Monitoring, Edwards Lifesciences
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
Life Science Executive
Director, Product Support R & D, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Executive Vice President, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
US Business Development Executive, Epistem
President and CEO, BioCentury
CEO, OBMedical Company
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, UVP LLC
President and Chief Executive Officer, Sarepta Therapeutics
Vice President & General Manager, PCR Systems Business Unit, Life Technologies
Senior Vice President, Business Development, Celgene Corporation
President, Ceraxa, Inc.
Science Fellow, Monsanto Co.
Principal, Guiheen and Associates LLC
President and Chief Executive Officer, Ceres
Biotechnology Executive
Vice President, Corporate Strategic Planning, Beckman Coulter
Vice President, Biologics Manufacturing and Development, Allergan
Director Global Medical Affairs, Alcon Labs - Glaucoma, Allergy, and Glaucoma Surgery
President & CEO of OCTANe
Vice President, Wireless Health, Global Strategy and Market Development, Qualcomm
Vice President, Business Development, deCODE
President and CEO, Skylight Healthcare Systems
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
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Gilead Sciences
Global Head of Cataract & Corneal R&D, Abbott Medical Optics
Vice President, International Supply Chain, Amgen
President & CEO, Catylix, Inc.
Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer, Proteus Digital Health
Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Alder Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Chief Scientific Officer, OxThera
Managing Director, California Technology Ventures, LLC
New Product Development, General Dynamics
Co-Founder, President and CEO, Nanotherapeutics
Biotechnology Executive
Vice President, Supply Chain, BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Executive Director, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Biotechnology Executive
Biotechnology Executive
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
James Schaeffer
Executive Director of Licensing & External Research-West Coast, Merck
Steve Shire
Staff Scientist and Group Leader in the Late Stage Pharmaceutical and Device Development Department, Genentech
Thomas P. Stagnaro
President and Chief Executive Officer, Americas Biotech Distributor
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
