Board of Directors
Patrick J. Zenner was named Chairman of the Board in May 2004 and has been a director since 2002. Mr. 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 held various executive positions during his 32-year career with the company. 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 of the Boards of Directors of West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., and Par Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In 2010, he resigned from the boards of Geron Corporation, Xoma Ltd. and Exact Sciences, Inc. Until its sale in September 2009, Mr. Zenner was a director of CuraGen Corporation. He has a B.S./B.A. from Creighton University and an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Timothy C. Barabe has been a director since November 2001. Mr. Barabe is currently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Affymetrix, Inc. Previously, from July 2006 until March 2010, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Human Genome Sciences, Inc. He was with Regent Medical Limited, a U.K.-based, privately owned, surgical supply company, where he was Chief Financial Officer, from 2004-2006. Mr. Barabe served with Novartis AG from 1982 through August 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. degree from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and his M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago.
Susan L. Kelley, M.D., has been a Director since April 2011. She is an independent consultant to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in the field of oncology drug development and strategy. From 2008 to 2011, she was Chief Medical Officer of the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium and its sister organization, the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, where her responsibilities spanned the continuum of clinical drug development from translational research and clinical trials to FDA regulatory compliance. From 2001 to 2008, Dr. Kelley was employed by Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals and Bayer-Schering Pharma as Vice President, Global Clinical Development and Therapeutic Area Head – Oncology. Dr. Kelley worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company from 1987 to 2001, most recently as Executive Director, Oncology Clinical Research, at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Dr. Kelley received her M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine and an A.B. in biology, magna cum laude, from Colgate University. She was a Fellow in Medical Oncology and Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and a Fellow in Medical Oncology and Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine, where she also served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine.
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 and Executive Vice President of Research and Development of Sequenom Inc., a director of HistoRx Inc., and a Senior Advisor to TVM-Capital, Munich. Dr. Lindsay is Executive Chairman of NeuroCentRx Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland, which he co-founded in 2008. 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, Ph.D., has been a director since January 2007. Dr. Loberg is a member of the Board of Directors of Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a developer of ophthalmic medicines, and recently served as its Interim Chief Executive Officer. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of NitroMed, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, from September 1997 to March 2006 and as its President from September 2003 to March 2006. From 1979 to 1997, Dr. Loberg held a number of senior management positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb, including President of Bristol-Myers Squibb'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 his employment with Bristol-Myers Squibb, Dr. Loberg was an associate professor of medicine and pharmacy from 1976 to 1979 and an assistant professor from 1973 to 1976 at the University of Maryland. Since 2004, Dr. Loberg is a director of Kereos, Inc., a developer of targeted molecular imaging agents and therapeutics. Until May 2009 when he did not stand for reelection, he was a director of AMAG, a biotechnology company focused in renal disease. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Trinity College and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Washington University.
William G. Messenger, D. Min., 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. Dr. Messenger also serves as the Executive Editor of the Theology of Work Project, a small international organization conducting research and publication in the field of business ethics. He currently serves as adjunct professor of business ethics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a lecturer in business ethics at Holy Cross College. From 1999 to 2008, Dr. Messenger served as Director of the Mockler Center for Faith and Ethics in the Workplace at Gordon-Cornwell Theological Seminary. Dr. Messenger received a B.S. in Physics with highest honors from Case Western Reserve University, an M.B.A. 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.
Paolo Pucci, joined ArQule as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors in June 2008 from Bayer A.G., where he served as senior vice president and president in charge of the Bayer-Schering Pharmaceuticals Global Oncology/Specialized Therapeutics Business Units. Previously, Mr. Pucci was senior vice president of Bayer Pharmaceuticals Global Specialty Business Unit, president of U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations and a member of the Bayer Pharmaceuticals Global Management Committee. At Bayer, Mr. Pucci was involved in a broad range of activities related to Nexavar® (sorafenib), an oral multiple kinase inhibitor used to treat liver and kidney cancers. These activities included clinical development, regulatory review, corporate alliance management, product launch and marketing. Mr. Pucci joined Bayer as head of its Italian Pharmaceutical operations in 2001. Prior to Bayer, Mr. Pucci held positions of increasing responsibility with Eli Lilly, culminating with his appointment as Managing Director, Eli Lilly Sweden AB. At Lilly, his responsibilities included operations, sales, marketing and strategic planning. Mr. Pucci holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and is a graduate of the Universita Degli Studi Di Napoli in Naples, Italy.