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James Beery has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2004. From March 2002 to the present, Mr. Beery has served as Senior Of Counsel to Covington & Burling, an international law firm based in Washington, D.C. From December 2000 until his retirement in June 2001, Mr. Beery served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of GlaxoSmithKline PLC, a UK-based global pharmaceutical company. For the seven years from 1993 until the formation of the merged company GlaxoSmithKline in December 2000, Mr. Beery served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of SmithKline Beecham PLC. He is currently a director of Martek Biosciences Corporation, deCODE Genetics, Inc., the London Centre for the International Education of Students and Inion, Oy, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science and Technology. Mr. Beery received his JD from Stanford Law School and AB in Physical Sciences from Harvard College.


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