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Published on: 6/10/2005
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Eyetech Announces Appointment of Henry Simon as Chairman of the Board and Resignation of John McLaughlin
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Eyetech Announces Appointment of Henry Simon as Chairman of the Board and Resignation of John McLaughlin
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NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: EYET), today announced that Henry Simon, a director of Eyetech since July 2001, the former Chairman of Eyetech's Audit Committee and a long-time senior leader at Schroder Ventures Life Sciences, a London-based global private equity group, has been appointed Eyetech's non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.Mr. Simon's appointment follows the resignation of John P. McLaughlin, Eyetech's non-executive Chairman of the Board since February 2000.
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Henry Simon has over 45 years of experience in life science, biotechnology and technology companies and has served as Chairman of a number of companies during his career.Since 1987, Mr. Simon has held various positions with Schroder Ventures serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the life sciences team until 1997, its Chairman from April 1997 to December 2001 and a Special Partner since January 2002.Mr. Simon has been Chairman of Leica Microsystems AG and Zarlink Semiconductors for many years and is also a director of Gyros AB.From 1988 to 1997, he was the Chairman of Shire Pharmaceuticals and from 1993 to 1996 he also served as the Chairman of Chiroscience.Prior to joining Schroder Ventures, Mr. Simon was President of Technicon Corporation, a diagnostics manufacturer, and prior to that Group Executive and Vice President of ITT Europe.Mr. Simon started his career at Bell Laboratories in 1959 after graduating from the Institute of Technology in Munich, Germany and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
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We are also very pleased that Henry Simon, our long-term director and former Chairman of our Audit Committee, has been appointed by the Board as its Chairman.
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Henry Simon commented, "I thank the Board for appointing me as Chairman and look forward to continue working with the Board and management at Eyetech."