| | Audit Committee | Compensation Committee | Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee | Mark S. Blumenkranz, M.D. Mark S. Blumenkranz, M.D.
Co-Founder & Chairman
Dr. Blumenkranz has served as a member of our board of directors since our inception in July 2006 and is a co-founder of Avalanche. Dr. Blumenkranz is a trained vitreoretinal surgeon and Chairman of the Department of Ophthlamology at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University. Prior to that, he served on the faculty of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida. Previously, from October 1985 to August 1992, Dr. Blumenkranz founded and served as Director of the Vitreoretinal Fellowship... |
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| John P. McLaughlin John P. McLaughlin
Mr. McLaughlin has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2014. Mr. McLaughlin has been President and Chief Executive Officer of PDL BioPharma, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, since December 2008, and a director since October 2008. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Anesiva, Inc., formerly known as Corgentech, Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company, from January 2000 to June 2008. From December 1997 to September 199... |
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| Steven D. Schwartz, MD Steven D. Schwartz, MD
Co-Founder
Dr. Schwartz has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2010, and is a co-founder of Avalanche. Dr. Schwartz is the Ahmanson Professor of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has served as an ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon since 1994 and as Chief of the Retina Division since 2002. Previously, Dr. Schwartz was a principal investigator in a number of early-stage clinical trials for retinal diseases, i... |
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| Paul D. Wachter Paul D. Wachter
Mr. Wachter has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2014. Mr. Wachter has been the Chief Executive Officer of Main Street Advisors, which he also founded, since 1997. Prior to forming Main Street Advisors, from June 1993 to March 1997, Mr. Wachter was Managing Director of Schroder & Co. Incorporated, an asset management company. From December 1991 to June 1993, Mr. Wachter was a managing director at Kidder, Peabody & Co., an investment banking firm. Since October 2010, Mr. W... |
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