Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 26, 2004
JOHN W. BURNS, has been the Chief Financial Officer of GlycoGenesys,
Inc., since January 2000 and a Class I Director, whose term expires in
2005, since June 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Burns was the CFO/Senior Vice
President, Finance and Business Operations for South Shore Hospital, a
regional healthcare services provider based in South Weymouth,
Massachusetts from February 1993 to February 1999. From January 1989 to
December 1992, Mr. Burns was the Vice President/Treasurer and a
subsidiary CFO/Vice President, Finance for Eastern Enterprises, a NYSE
company engaged in energy and marine transportation. Mr. Burns has also
held corporate finance and treasury positions with Allied-Signal,
Citicorp Investment Bank, and International Paper. Mr. Burns holds a
Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from New York
University and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mathematics from Stevens
Institute of Technology. Profile
FREDERICK E. PIERCE II has been the Vice President of Business
Development of GlycoGenesys, Inc., since August 2002 and the company's
Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations since June 1998. Prior
to joining the company, Mr. Pierce had 12 years' experience working in
Wall Street firms representing and/or advising major biotechnology and
medical device companies. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Pierce was at Lehman
Brothers, where he was the New England private client services liaison
to healthcare investment banking. Prior to that, Mr. Pierce had over
seven years' experience at Kidder Peabody and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Pierce
received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Hampshire
College. Profile
BRADLEY J. CARVER, Chief Executive Officer of GlycoGenesys, Inc., since
June 2000, has been President and Treasurer and a member of the Board of
Directors of the company since March 1995 and has been the President,
Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and a member of the Board of
Directors of IGG since February 1993. Mr. Carver is a Class III Director
whose term expires in 2004. Mr. Carver received a Bachelor of Arts
degree in management from Michigan State University in 1983. Profile
TWST: Please begin with a brief historical sketch of the company and apicture of the things you are doing at the present time.
Mr. Burns (CFO): We were born out of a restructuring that began