Board of Directors
Patrick J. Zenner was named Chairman of the Board in May 2004 and has been a director since 2002. A 32-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, Patrick Zenner retired in 2001 from the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., North America. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., based in Nutley, N.J., is the prescription drug unit of the Roche Group. Mr. Zenner is currently on the Board of Trustees of Creighton University and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Fairleigh Dickinson University. In addition, Mr. Zenner is a member on the Boards of Directors of CuraGen Corporation, Praecis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Geron Corporation, Sciele Pharma, Inc., Xoma Ltd., West Pharmaceutical Services and Exact Sciences, Inc.
Timothy C. Barabe has been a Director since November 2001. Mr. Barabe is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Human Genome Sciences. Previously, he was with Regent Medical Ltd., a U.K.-based privately owned surgical supply company, where he served as Chief Financial Officer from 2004-2006. Mr. Barabe served with Novartis AG from 1982-2004 in a succession of senior executive positions in finance, general management, and strategic planning, most recently as the Chief Financial Officer of Sandoz GmbH, the generic pharmaceutical subsidiary of Novartis. Mr. Barabe received his B.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Ronald M. Lindsay, Ph.D., has been a Director since June 2005. He currently operates Milestone Consulting, a biopharmaceutical consulting enterprise. Dr. Lindsay was previously Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President, Research and Development, at diaDexus Inc. from 2000 to 2004, and held a number of positions at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., including Senior Vice President, Biotherapeutics, from 1997 to 2000. At Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, where he worked from 1989 to 1997, he was a founding scientist and Vice President, Neurobiology. Dr. Lindsay also worked at the Sandoz Institute for Medical Research, London from 1984 to 1989, where he was Head of Cell Biology. He is a director of Sequenom Inc., and HistoRx Inc., and a Senior Advisor to TVM-Capital, Munich. He is also a life sciences advisor to Scottish Enterprise and a member of the Globalscot network. Dr. Lindsay completed post-doctoral work at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, and he holds a B. Sc (Hons) in chemistry from the University of Glasgow and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Calgary.
Michael D. Loberg has been a Director since January 2007. He is currently serving as Interim Chief Executive Officer of Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation and previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of NitroMed, Inc. from 2003 to 2006, and as Chief Executive Officer of that company from 1997 to 2003. Dr. Loberg held a number of senior management positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) from 1979 to 1997, including President of the Company’s Oncology and Immunology, U.S. Primary Care, Northern Europe, Specialty Pharmaceuticals and Squibb Diagnostics divisions, as well as Director and Vice President, E.R. Squibb & Sons Research and Development. Prior to BMS, he was at the University of Maryland, as Associate Professor of medicine and pharmacy from 1976 to 1979 and as Assistant Professor from 1973 to 1976. Dr. Loberg is a Director of Advanced Magnetics, Kereos and Inotek. He holds a B.S. in chemistry from Trinity College and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Washington University.
William G. Messenger has been a Director since January 2005. He has been the owner and Managing Director of the Lexington Sycamore Group, consultants in the fields of business strategy, organization and leadership since 1994. Mr. Messenger serves as an adjunct faculty member in business ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Mr. Messenger received a BS in Physics with highest honors from Case Western Reserve University, an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, a Master of Divinity degree, summa cum laude, from Boston University School of Theology, and a Doctor of Ministry from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Nancy A. Simonian, M.D. joined the ArQule Board of Directors in May 2006. Dr. Simonian is currently Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Clinical, Medical and Regulatory Affairs at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, where she has worked since 2001. From 1995 to 2001, Dr. Simonian was at Biogen where she was the Vice President of Medical Research responsible for the development of Avonex, Tysabri and multiple gene therapy clinical development programs. Prior to joining industry, Dr. Simonian was on the faculty of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor of neurology and was engaged in both basic science and clinical research related to neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Simonian graduated from Princeton University, received her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and completed her internship in medicine and residency in neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.