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As a founding partner and managing director of Bay City Capital, a San Francisco-based merchant bank, Mr. Salquist focused on securing first and second-round financing and investment for more than 30 life sciences companies. Prior to founding Bay City Capital, Mr. Salquist served for 12 years as chairman and CEO of Calgene Inc., a Davis, California-based agribusiness biotechnology company, until it was acquired by Monsanto in 1996. He has also served as chairman of the California Industrial Biotechnology Association and was founding chairman of the Biotechnology Industry Association’s Food and Agriculture Division. He is the current chairman of the board of UC Davis CONNECT and serves on the Advisory Board of the Friday Harbor Laboratories of the University of Washington. Mr. Salquist received his B.A. and M.B.A. from Stanford University. | 