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James Beery has served as a member of Orchid's Board of Directors since November 2004. Mr. Beery has more than 30 years experience as a lawyer in international business and corporate transactions. Currently, he is Senior Of Counsel to the law firm Covington & Burling, where he specializes in pharmaceutical and biotechnology matters. Prior to joining Covington & Burling in 2002, Mr. Beery was senior vice president and general counsel of GlaxoSmithKline PLC where he was part of the core senior management team and provided legal support to its global business operations. He also had functional responsibility for intellectual property, corporate secretarial, environment, health and safety, insurance, security, corporate ethics and compliance. Mr. Beery was senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of SmithKline Beecham PLC for seven years prior to the firm's merger with Glaxo Wellcome in 2000, and managed the integration of the two companies' legal departments following the merger until his retirement in June 2001. Prior to joining SmithKline Beecham in 1993, Mr. Beery held senior positions at several leading international law firms where his practice responsibilities included general corporate, commercial, government affairs, banking and international business transactions over two decades. He served in Vietnam as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. Mr. Beery holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and an undergraduate degree in physical sciences from Harvard College. He also serves as a member of the board of Martek Biosciences Corporation.
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