Ken Stratton joined StemCells, Inc. as General Counsel in February 2007. His primary responsibilities include overseeing the Company’s legal operations and advising the Company and its management and directors on various compliance matters. He also serves as corporate secretary. Mr. Stratton was formerly Deputy General Counsel at Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and prior to that was Senior Legal Counsel for the vascular business unit of Medtronic, Inc., an international medical device manufacturer. Prior to joining industry, Mr. Stratton was a business attorney in private practice for ten years handling both transactional and litigation matters with corporate law firms in San Francisco and Palo Alto. He earned both his J.D. and M.B.A. in finance from New York University and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. |