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Mr. Simonetti has served as a director since March 2005. Mr. Simonetti has served as chief executive officer and as a director of VLST Corp. a biotechnology company since December 2005. Mr. Simonetti was chief financial officer and treasurer of Dendreon Corporation a biotechnology company from January 1999 to July 2005 and senior vice president finance of Dendreon from January 2001 to July 2005. Prior to joining Dendreon Mr. Simonetti was employed at Amgen Inc. a biotechnology company most recently serving as vice president operations and finance of Amgen BioPharma and its director of Colorado operations. From 1984 to 1991 Mr. Simonetti worked at Genentech Inc. a biotechnology company first as a scientist in its medicinal and analytical chemistry department and later as a financial analyst and group controller. Mr. Simonetti also serves on the board of directors of Alexandria Real Estate Equities a publicly traded real estate investment trust and is a member of the Dean’s executive advisory board for the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University. Mr. Simonetti received an M.S. in Nutrition from the University of California Davis and an M.B.A. from the University of Santa Clara. | 