The names of our directors and executive officers, and certain additional information with respect to each of them, are set forth below.
| Name | Position | Year Elected |
| Mark Lappe | Chairman of the Board | 2008 |
| Joseph S. Podolski | Chief Executive Officer | 1992 |
| Daniel F. Cain | Director | 2004 |
| Jean L. Fourcroy, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. | Director | 2004 |
| Stephen B. Howell, M.D. | Director | 2009 |
| Nola Masterson | Director | 2004 |
| John C. Reed, M.D., Ph.D. | Director | 2008 |
| Paul Lammers, M.D. | President | - |
| Louis Ploth, Jr. | Chief Financial Officer and Secretary | - |
| Andre van As, M.D., Ph.D. | Senior Vice President, Regulatory and Clinical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer | - |
| Ronald Wiehle, Ph.D. | Vice President, Research and Development | - |
Mark Lappe
Mr. Lappe became a Director in 2008. Mr. Lappe is a Managing Partner of Efficacy Capital, Ltd., a life science investment fund. Prior to founding Efficacy Capital in 2003, Mr. Lappe was a leading executive search consultant for start-up biotech and medical device companies. Mr. Lappe founded Lappe & Associates in 1990 and built the teams of 40 emerging companies over 13 years.
Joseph S. Podolski
Mr. Podolski joined us in 1989 as Vice President of Operations and has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director since 1992. Previously, Mr. Podolski spent twelve years in various engineering, product development and manufacturing positions at G.D. Searle, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company. Before joining Monsanto, Mr. Podolski held positions in manufacturing, engineering, quality control and development of fine chemicals, antibiotics, pharmaceuticals and hospital products with Abbott Laboratories, Dearborn Chemical Company and Baxter Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Podolski holds a B.S. degree in chemistry and a M.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Daniel F. Cain
Mr. Cain was elected a director in 2004 and became Chairman of the Board in 2005. Since October 1994, Mr. Cain has provided consulting services for small businesses. Since May 2000, he has also served as acting CEO of Wireless Medical, Inc., a Colorado-based medical device company, and Enet Biz, a Colorado-based consulting firm. From 1969 to 1994, Mr. Cain held various positions with Miles Laboratories, Inc., Hexcel Corporation, Scripps-Miles, Inc., Synbiotics Corporation and Heska Corporation. Mr. Cain has 35 years of broad business experience including 26 years with medical companies. Sixteen of these years were with three different biotech startup companies, one of which he co-founded. Mr. Cain has held a wide variety of executive level management positions including CEO/ President and CFO. Mr. Cain earned a B.S. degree in business from LeTourneau College and a M.B.A. degree from Indiana University.
Jean L. Fourcroy, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Fourcroy was elected a director at our 2003 annual meeting of stockholders, which was held on January 14, 2004. Dr. Fourcroy was engaged as a Medical Officer with the FDA from 1988 to 2001. Since leaving the FDA, Dr. Fourcroy has been a consultant to the industry and a featured speaker and panel member in numerous meetings and symposia. Dr. Fourcroy is a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and is a Past President of the American Medical Women’s Association. Dr. Fourcroy is the recipient of a 1998 American Urological Association Presidential Citation Award, the 1999 Camille Mermod Award from the American Medical Women’s Association, and an Outstanding Service Award from the American Society of Andrology in April 2000. Dr. Fourcroy received her M.D. from the Medical College of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. from the University of California at San Francisco. Her surgery and urology residencies were completed at George Washington University Medical Center with Board Certification in Urology in 1981. In 1999, she received her Masters in Public Heath from the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Stephen B. Howell, M.D.
Dr. Howell is a nominee for director for the first time this year. Dr. Howell is a medical oncologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He joined the UCSD faculty in 1977. He serves as Associate Director for Clinical Research and Director of the Cancer Therapeutics Training Program at the Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, and also runs the Clayton Foundation Drug Resistance Laboratory at the Cancer Center. Dr. Howell is a member of the Committee on Experimental Medicine of the Gynecologic Oncology Group. He is the recipient of patents for his innovative work in chemotherapeutics, drug-delivery systems, and diagnostic assays. He is the author of more than 280 publications in the field of cancer chemotherapy. He has received numerous awards, including the Milken Family Medical Foundation Award for Outstanding Work in the Field of Cancer Research, a presidential citation from the American Head and Neck Society, a Fogarty Senior International Fellowship. Dr. Howell is a member of numerous societies, including the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Howell graduated from Harvard Medical School, completed his internship and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco, and his medical oncology training at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He completed his research training at the National Institutes of Health. He is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology. Dr. Howell co-founded, DepoTech, Beacon Laboratories, and Targa Pharmaceuticals. He has served on the Board of Directors and as Medical Director of each of these companies. In addition, he served on the Board of Directors of Matrix Pharmaceuticals, and is currently on the Board of Directors of Angstrom Pharmaceuticals and Access Pharmaceuticals. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards and Data Safety Monitoring Boards of a number of both large and small pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Howell received his A.B. at the University of Chicago and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
Nola Masterson
Ms. Masterson was elected a director at our 2004 annual meeting of stockholders, which was held on September 29, 2004. Ms. Masterson has 29 years of experience in the life science industry. Ms. Masterson has been the CEO of Science Futures, Inc., an investment and advisory firm, since 1982. Ms. Masterson is currently Managing Member and General Partner of Science Futures LLC, I, II and III, which are all venture capital funds invested in life science funds and companies. She also serves as a Senior Advisor to TVM Techno Venture Management, an international venture capital company. She was the first biotechnology analyst on Wall Street, working with Drexel Burnham Lambert and Merrill Lynch. She is co-founder of Sequenom, Inc., a genetic analysis company located in San Diego and Hamburg, Germany. She started the BioTech Meeting in Laguna Nigel, California and the annual Biopharmaceutical Conference in Europe. She was nominated to the 100 Irish American Business List in 2003. Ms. Masterson began her career at Ames Company, a division of Bayer, and spent eight years at Millipore Corporation in sales and sales management. She received her Masters in Biological Sciences from George Washington University, and continued Ph.D. work at the University of Florida.
John C. Reed, M.D., Ph.D.
John C. Reed, MD, Ph.D., is President & Chief Executive Officer of Burnham Institute for Medical Research, where he has worked as a scientist and leader for more than 15 years. Dr. Reed is also Professor and Donald Bren Presidential Chair at Burnham, with adjunct Professor appointments at several universities. Dr. Reed’s scientific accomplishments include authorship of more than 700 research publications and more than 50 book chapters. He was recognized as the world’s most highly cited scientist for his research publications during the decade 1995-2005 in the broad field of "cell biology" and also in the field of "general biomedicine" by the Institute for Scientific Information. Dr. Reed is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, and has been awarded more than 70 research grants for his work. He is a named inventor for more than 60 patents, the founder of four biotechnology companies, an advisor to numerous biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and serves or has served on the boards of directors of several public and private biotechnology companies and life-sciences organizations.
Paul Lammers, M.D.
Dr. Paul Lammers recently joined Repros Therapeutics as its President. Before joining Repros Therapeutics, he served since 2002 as Chief Medical Officer for EMD Serono Inc., a large biotech company in Massachusetts. Over his 20 years in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, Dr. Lammers held several different executive and senior management positions in clinical development, medical affairs, and regulatory affairs at both medium and large pharmaceutical companies, and small private and public biotech companies. He also worked as an independent consultant for start-up biotech companies. He started his pharmaceutical career in the Netherlands, after obtaining both a biology and medical degree, and moved to the US in 1992. Dr. Lammers is a member of the Drug Information Association, the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians, a former member of the Board of the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) and former Chairman of the Board of BioSymposia, an accredited provider of CME programs for medical scientists and healthcare professionals.
Louis Ploth, Jr.
From January 2001 to May 2009, Mr. Ploth served as our Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Business Development and Secretary. Since May 2009, Mr. Ploth has served as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. Mr. Ploth joined us in 1993 and was elected a director at our 2003 annual meeting of stockholders, which was held on January 14, 2004. He served as Vice President, Finance from March 1999 to January 2001. He had previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Business Development from 1993 to 1998 and as Chief Financial Officer from 1998 to March 1999 at which time he also served as General Manager of Fertility Technologies, Inc., a former subsidiary of ours. Previously, Mr. Ploth was employed by Unisyn Technologies where he served concurrently as Chief Financial Officer and as Vice President of Finance and Administration. Mr. Ploth was also Corporate Controller of Synbiotics Corporation. Mr. Ploth has over 24 years of corporate financial and business development experience, with over 22 years experience in the biotechnology industry. Mr. Ploth has a B.S. degree from Montclair State College.
Andre van As, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Andre van As, M.D., Ph.D. joined us in 2006 as the Company's Chief Medical Officer and Sr. VP of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs. Dr. van As has over 40 years of medical experience, the last 16 being in the pharmaceutical industry and most recently having served in senior clinical and regulatory positions at Novartis and Quintiles. While at Novartis he was the Global Respiratory Section Head and served as Executive Director for the Xolair team that gained U.S. approval for the first monoclonal antibody for the management of severe asthma. Dr. van As has authored numerous peer reviewed scientific articles.
Ronald D. Wiehle, Ph.D.
Dr. Wiehle originally joined us in 1996 and now serves as the Vice President, Research and Development. He has over 30 years of experience in biomedical sciences which includes projects involving male and female reproductive biology, cancer biology, virology, and cell biology. Previously Dr. Wiehle served as the lead scientist for all of the company's hormonally-based programs and was instrumental in the licensing of a series of SPRMs from the NICHD. Dr. Wiehle received a B.S., in Chemistry, from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He worked as an Assistant Biochemist at the IIT Research Institute in Chicago on animal models of human cancer. Dr. Wiehle earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from The University of Louisville School of Medicine/Health Science focusing on hormone receptors in human breast cancer. He earned a post doctoral award under a Sonderesforshungsgemeinshaft (SFG) at the Institut fuer Molekularbiologie und Tumorforshung (IMT) of the Phillips University in Marburg, Germany to study the use of recombinant retrovial vectors to transform mammalian cells. He has held faculty positions at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center/University of Louisville and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Baylor College of Medicine. He has been awarded research grants by the NIH and local and national clinical/scientific organizations. He has authored more than 25 publications and has delivered invited lectures.