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Mr. Rhodes brings broad business and financial expertise to Alnylam. During his 16 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, he has played central roles in numerous partnering and investment transactions. He has also worked on commercial projects including the launch of the blockbuster oncology drug Taxotere(R) and the design and restructuring of Wyeth's sales force. He joins Alnylam from Fidelity Biosciences, the biotech venture capital arm of Fidelity Investments, where he was a partner and a founder of the group. While there, he had an active role in building a number of private biopharmaceutical companies, including Microbia, FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Mersana Therapeutics, Inc., and Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. from Yale University. | 