Vernon R. Loucks, Jr.

Overview

Vernon R. Loucks, Jr. has served as a director since September 2007. Mr. Loucks is Chairman of the Board of the Aethena Group, LLC, a health care merchant banking firm. Mr. Loucks is the retired chairman of Baxter International Inc., a healthcare company with operations in over 100 countries, where he held the title of chief executive officer from 1980 through 1998 and chairman of the board from 1987 through 1999. Mr. Loucks has also served as CEO of Segway LLC and Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation and is currently a director of Affymetrix, Inc., Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., Edwards Lifesciences Corp., Emerson Electric Co., Pain Therapeutics, Inc. and Segway LLC. Mr. Loucks holds a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University, a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps.