MANAGEMENT
| Senior Management | |
|---|---|
| Name | Position |
| Vijay B. Samant | President and Chief Executive Officer |
| Jill M. Broadfoot | Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary |
| Alain P. Rolland, Pharm. D., Ph.D. | Executive Vice President, Product Development |
| Kevin R. Bracken | Vice President, Manufacturing |
| Andrew R. de Guttadauro | Vice President, Corporate Development |
| Richard T. Kenney, M.D. | Vice President, Clinical Development |
| Larry R. Smith, Ph.D. | Vice President, Vaccine Research |
Vijay B. Samant joined us as President and Chief Executive Officer in November 2000. Mr. Samant has 23 years of diverse U.S. and international sales, marketing, operations, and business development experience with Merck. From 1998 to mid-2000, he was Chief Operating Officer of the Merck Vaccine Division. From 1990 to 1998, he served in the Merck Manufacturing Division as Vice President of Vaccine Operations, Vice President of Business Affairs, and Executive Director of Materials Management. Mr. Samant earned his M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. He received a master's degree in chemical engineering from Columbia University in 1977 and a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Bombay, University Department of Chemical Technology, in 1975.
Jill M. Broadfoot (formerly Jill M. Church) joined us as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary in October 2004, and was promoted to Senior Vice President in January 2009. From February 1999 until joining us, Ms. Church held various positions at dj Orthopedics, Inc., a publicly-traded medical device company, most recently as Vice President of Finance and Controller with broad responsibilities in finance, accounting, treasury, risk management, and corporate governance. From September 1994 until joining dj Orthopedics, Ms. Church served as an audit manager at Ernst & Young LLP, where her clients included life sciences, computer software and telecommunications companies as well as government contractors. From June 1990 until joining Ernst & Young, she was Division Controller at Medical Imaging Centers of America, Inc., a chain of freestanding imaging centers and mobile imaging centers, where she held divisional accounting and financial reporting responsibilities. Ms. Church received her bachelor's degree in business administration and accounting from San Diego State University, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Alain P. Rolland, Pharm.D., Ph.D., joined us as Vice President, Product Development in August 2002, was promoted to Senior Vice President in April 2004 and Executive Vice President in January 2009. Dr. Rolland was Senior Vice President of Pre-Clinical Research and Development, and Head of The Woodlands Center of Valentis, Inc. from 2000 to 2002. From 1993 to 1999, he served in several positions at a predecessor company to Valentis, Inc., GeneMedicine, Inc., where he progressed from Director of Gene Delivery to Vice President of Research. From 1989 to 1993, he was the Head of Formulation Research at the Research & Development Center of Galderma International, or CIRD, in France. Prior to that, he was a scientist at the Advanced Drug Delivery Research Center of Ciba Geigy Pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom. He received his Pharm.D., D.E.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Rennes University, France. Dr. Rolland holds several U.S. and European patents on advanced drug and gene delivery for medical applications. He has authored numerous publications and books in the area of nonviral gene delivery resulting from his active career in research and development. He also serves on the editorial board of several journals and he is the Editor-in-Chief of "Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology."
Kevin R. Bracken joined us as Vice President, Manufacturing in October 2001. From July 1998 to October 2001, Mr. Bracken was Vice President, Process Engineering and Manufacturing for Universal Preservation Technologies, Inc., and from November 1995 to July 1998, he was Director of Engineering for Molecular Biosystems, Inc. Prior to November 1995, he held a variety of process and engineering positions with Gilead Sciences, Inc., and a predecessor company, Vestar, Inc., with Baxter International, and with E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company. He brings experience in commercial scale-up of biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, process development and optimization, and direction of research, pre-clinical, clinical, production and contract manufacturing. Mr. Bracken earned his master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1973, and his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware in 1970.
Andrew R. de Guttadauro joined us as Vice President, Corporate Development in August 2007. Prior to joining Vical, Mr. de Guttadauro was Senior Director of Strategy at Biogen Idec since February 2007, following a two-year assignment overseeing the commercial development of that company’s Zevalin, the first radioimmunotherapy product approved for use in the United States. Before joining Biogen Idec, he spent the prior year at MedImmune, where he directed marketing efforts for the FluMist inhaled influenza vaccine. Mr. de Guttadauro served in various marketing positions of increasing responsibility at Amgen Inc. over a six-year period, with direct involvement in the marketing of Enbrel, Kineret, Aranesp, and Epogen products. He spent the first seven years of his career at Tap Pharmaceuticals, where he served in a series of sales and marketing positions, including contributions to the success of Prevacid and Lupron. Mr. de Guttadauro earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, followed by a three-year tour of duty as a Captain in the U.S. Army.
Richard T. Kenney, M.D., joined us as Vice President, Clinical Development, in December 2009. Prior to joining Vical, Dr. Kenney held key positions in influenza and biodefense vaccine development at GSK Biologicals (formerly ID Biomedical) from 2005 to 2009, most recently as Senior Director of Global Clinical R&D, Vaccines for Viral Diseases. His initial role at ID Biomedical was Vice President, Clinical & Regulatory Affairs. From 2001 to 2005, he served as Vice President, Clinical Development and then as Vice President, Medical & Regulatory Affairs at IOMAI Corporation. Dr. Kenney advanced through several positions from 1995 to 2001 as a researcher/reviewer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Office of Vaccine Research and Review. He simultaneously practiced internal medicine at Kaiser Permanente After Hours Care from 1988 to 2001. After completing his residency in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center, Dr. Kenney pursued postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, completing a fellowship in infectious diseases, and then in molecular parasitology and tropical medicine. He received board certifications in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He earned his M.D. degree at Harvard Medical School, and graduated with special honors from George Washington University.
Larry R. Smith, Ph.D., joined us as Executive Director, Vaccinology in September 2003, and was named Vice President, Vaccine Research in October 2006. Dr. Smith was Director of Viral Vaccines Research at Wyeth Vaccines, where he oversaw the immunogenicity testing of various viral vaccines including a number of recombinant viral vectors. Prior to joining Wyeth in 1996, Dr. Smith was a Scientific Investigator at Immune Response Corporation, where he identified autoreactive T cell targets in psoriasis and multiple sclerosis which led to the clinical testing of several therapeutic vaccine candidates. Dr. Smith received a B.S. degree in Biology from Purdue University, a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Texas Medical Branch, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Immunology Department at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation.