Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> August 10, 2009
KENT SNYDER is President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of
Directors of Senomyx, Inc. Prior to joining Senomyx in June 2003, he held
various marketing and sales management positions with Agouron Pharmaceuticals,
Inc., a Pfizer company. Mr. Snyder was President of Global Commercial Operations
at Agouron after having served as Senior Vice President of Commercial Affairs
and Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Snyder is a director of
Santarus, Inc., a publicly held biopharmaceutical company, and VentiRx
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Snyder
received his B.S. from the University of Kansas and his MBA from Rockhurst
College. Profile
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Mr. Snyder: The company was founded in 1998 by two professors at the University
of California, San
