Lisa Conte - Shaman Pharmaceuticals Inc (shph.ob)

Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> July 17, 2000

LISA CONTE is the Founder, President and Corporate Executive Officer of Shaman Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which in 1999 became ShamanBotancials.com. After the US Food and Drug Administration delayed Shaman Pharmaceuticals' plans to market its first drug, Provir, in 1999, which threatened to bankrupt the company, Ms. Conte successfully transitioned Shaman into the dietary supplement business and an Internet/cable content company. Prior to founding Shaman, Ms. Conte worked for Strategic Decisions Group, conducting risk and strategy audits for technology companies funded by venture capital. In 1987 she moved to Technology Funding, a venture capital fund, and was responsible for recommending investments in healthcare companies. Shaman Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1989, and in 1990 Ms. Conte founded The Healing Forest Conservancy, a nonprofit organization associated with Shaman that channels Shaman's profits to all communities and cultures that contributed to the development of products. Ms. Conte has served on many Boards of Directors, including that of the AIDS Treatment Data Network, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the Bay Area Bioscience Center, the Amazon Conservation Team, the California Healthcare Institute, the University of California at San Francisco Foundation, Dartmouth College Presidents Leadership Council, and California Governor Pete Wilson's Council on Biotechnology. She has also received Ernst & Young's prestigious 1994 Entrepreneur of the Year award. Ms. Conte received her AB in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College, an MS in Physiology/Pharmacology at the University of California at San Diego, and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth. Profile

TWST: Would you provide our readers with some background on Shaman

Pharmaceuticals or Shaman Botanicals? What name do you go by now?

Ms. Conte: The company name is Shaman Pharmaceuticals. The

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Lisa Conte – Shaman Pharmaceuticals Inc (shph.ob)

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