PEOPLE

Dr. Paul Gerd Heiden:

Dr. Heiden is a senior executive of Bayer, a multinational Fortune 500 Company specialized in Healthcare, Polymers, Chemicals and Crop Science. He is the Berkeley Site Manager and Senior Vice President of Bayer Biologicals. Dr. Heiden began his career with Tropon, a former pharmaceutical subsidiary of Bayer AG in 1987, where he became the head of the Quality Assurance function. In 1992, he joined Bayer's Consumer Healthcare US operations as the Head of Quality Assurance and member of the Executive Management Team. In 1996 he joined Bayer's Pharmaceutical Division at its Leverkusen, Germany headquarters as the global Compliance Officer. Later as the Head of Global Quality Assurance and a Member of the Pharma Management Committee, he was responsible for the Analytical Development of Bayer's drug development pipeline and all worldwide Quality Assurance Operations. In 1999 he left this position and relocated again to the US on an assignment of Bayer's board to serve as a member of the Leadership Committee of the Biological Products Division, specializing in Protein drugs originated from Plasma fractionation and Biotechnology. In 2000 he assumed the responsibility of Technical Operations of the active ingredients manufacturing plant of Bayer's Pharma Division in Wuppertal, Germany. Moving to the US in 2001 he has served as the Vice President, Technical Operations for Biological Product's Berkeley, CA facility. Bayer's biotechnology operations at this site produce protein therapeutics for the treatment of life-threatening diseases, such as KogenateTM, a recombinant FVIII product for the treatment of hemophilia. Paul received his Ph.D. degree of Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Bonn, Germany in 1986 and was rewarded several academic awards and distinctions for his work during his academic career.

Mr. Stephen Zelencik:

Stephen is the former Senior Vice President of sales and marketing, Chief Marketing Officer, and Officer of Advanced Micro Devices, AMD. Mr. Zelencik joined AMD in 1970 as its first outside salesperson and as the western area sales manager when AMD’s revenue was at $800,000. He held various positions of increasing responsibilities while building one of the most capable international sales forces and establishing various global strategic business alliances. He contributed to taking AMD to a Fortune 500 company with sales of $1 Billion in 1980, and $2.5 Billion in 1995. In May 2000, Mr. Zelencik stepped back from an active sales role and began to focus on new market opportunities, as Senior Vice President, Market Development and a Corporate Officer. In April 2002, he stepped down as a Corporate Officer and became Senior Advisor to various international projects for the corporation. Prior to AMD, Mr. Zelencik worked with Amphenol-Borg Corporation and Fairchild Semiconductor in the area of sales and marketing. He received his BSEE from Purdue University in August 1960. Mr. Zelencik serves on the board of FASL (Fujitsu AMD Semiconductor Ltd.) He also is an advisor to several companies, public and private. He served in the US Army Signal Corps. In October 1993 he received the “Outstanding Electrical Engineering” award and in April 1998 he received the “Distinguished Engineering Alumnus” award. Both awards are from Purdue University. He is involved in many professional and community activities.