Mr. Beery has served as a director since April 2004. Mr. Beery has served since March 2002 as Senior Of Counsel in the London office of Covington & Burling, an international law firm based in Washington, D.C. Prior to his retirement in June 2001, Mr. Beery served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of GlaxoSmithKline PLC, a UK-based global pharmaceutical company. 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. Mr. Beery holds a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Stanford Law School. He is currently a director of deCode genetics, Inc., Orchid Biosciences, Inc., the Theodora Children's Trust and the London Centre for the International Education of Students, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science and Technology. His term expires in 2009.
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