Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 12, 2001

David Southwell – Sepracor Inc (sepr)

DAVID P. SOUTHWELL has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sepracor Inc. since June 1994. Prior to joining Sepracor, Mr. Southwell was a Vice President in investment banking with Lehman Brothers in New York. His career at Lehman spanned 10 years, and included mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, restructurings and debt and equity financing transactions. While at Lehman, he managed the IPO of Sepracor in September 1991. Mr. Southwell holds an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, and a BA from Rice University in Houston, Texas. Profile
TWST: Could you begin with a brief historical sketch and overview of the

company?

Mr. Southwell: Sepracor was founded in 1984, and was made up of a number

of different business units that were