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 |
| Nola E. Masterson | Chairman of the Board | 2004 |
| Daniel F. Cain | Director | 2004 |
| Jean L. Fourcroy, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. | Director | 2004 |
| Joseph S. Podolski | President and Chief Executive Officer, Director | 1992 |
| Jaye Thompson, Ph.D. | Director | 2009 |
| Ronald Wiehle, Ph.D. | Vice President, Research and Development | - |
Nola E. 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.
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.
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.
Jaye Thompson, Ph.D.
Dr. Jaye Thompson became a director in 2009. Jaye Thompson has more than 20 years of experience in the clinical research industry. She is currently the Senior Vice President of Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs with Opexa Therapeutics, Inc. Prior to joining Opexa, she was the Senior Vice President for Regulatory Affairs and Emerging Biotechnologies at inVentiv Clinical Solutions, LLC (NASDAQ, VTIV), a full-serve contract research organization. She assisted companies in product development by providing guidance in the areas of clinical and regulatory affairs. In addition, she was the senior executive in the office located in The Woodlands, Texas. Prior to its acquisition by inVentiv in 2006, Dr. Thompson was President and Founder of SYNERGOS, Inc, a leading contract research organization based in The Woodlands, Texas. Under her leadership, SYNERGOS (founded in 1991) grew and gained a reputation as one of the foremost clinical research organizations in the region. She started her career as a Biostatistician and Project Leader for Applied Logic Associates. Dr. Thompson holds a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Texas A&M University and an MS and a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. She serves on the Gulf Coast Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization Executive Board, the MD Anderson Technology Review Committee and the BioHouston Associate Advisory Board.
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.