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This excerpt taken from the ELN 6-K filed Mar 31, 2006.
Board of Directors and Senior Management
Directors
Kyran McLaughlin (61) was appointed a director of Elan in January 1998 and was appointed chairman of Elan in January 2005. He is deputy chairman and head of capital markets at Davy Stockbrokers, Ireland’s largest stockbroker firm. He is also a director of Ryanair Holdings, plc and is a director of a number of private companies.
Göran Ando, MD (57) was appointed a director of Elan in May 2005. He was formerly executive vice president and president, R&D of Pharmacia (now Pfizer). He is a director of a number of public and private companies. Dr. Ando is a Specialist in General Medicine and a Founding Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology.
Garo H. Armen, PhD (53) was appointed a director of Elan in February 1994, and served as our chairman from July 2002 until January 2005. He is chairman and chief executive officer of Antigenics Inc., the biotechnology company he co-founded with Pramod Srivastava in 1994. Dr. Armen also serves on the Board of Directors of Color Kinetics Incorporated, a company that designs, markets and licences intelligent solid-state lighting systems. Dr. Armen is also the founder and President of the Children of Armenia Fund, a charitable organisation established in 2000 that is dedicated to the positive development of the children and youth of Armenia.
Shane Cooke (43) was appointed a director of Elan in May 2005. He joined the company as the executive vice president and chief financial officer in July 2001. Prior to joining Elan, Mr. Cooke was chief executive of Pembroke Capital Limited, an aviation leasing company, and prior to that held a number of senior positions in finance in the banking and aviation industries. Mr. Cooke is a chartered accountant and a graduate of University College Dublin.
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Laurence G. Crowley (69) was appointed a director of Elan in March 1996. He was governor (chairman) of the Bank of Ireland until his retirement in July 2005. He is presently chairman of PJ Carroll & Co. and is a director of a number of private companies.
William F. Daniel (54) was appointed a director of Elan in February 2003. He has served as the company secretary since December 2001, having joined Elan in March 1994 as group financial controller. In July 1996, he was appointed group vice president, finance, group controller and principal accounting officer. From 1990 to 1992, Mr. Daniel was financial director of Xtravision, plc. Mr. Daniel is a chartered accountant and a graduate of University College of Dublin.
Lars Ekman MD, PhD (56) was appointed a director of Elan in May 2005 and joined Elan as executive vice president and president, global R&D in 2001. Prior to joining Elan, he was EVP, R&D, at Schwarz Pharma AG since 1997. From 1984 to 1997, Dr. Ekman was employed in a variety of senior scientific and clinical functions at Pharmacia (now Pfizer). Dr. Ekman is a board certified surgeon with a PhD in experimental biology and has held several clinical and academic positions in both the United States and Europe. He obtained his PhD and MD from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Alan R. Gillespie, CBE, PhD (55) was appointed a director of Elan in March 1996. He is chairman of Ulster Bank Limited and chairman of the International Finance Facility. From November 1999 until November 2002, he was chief executive officer of CDC Group, plc and was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs International.
Ann Maynard Gray (60) was appointed a director of Elan in February 2001. She was formerly president of Diversified Publishing Group of Capital Cities/ ABC, Inc. Ms. Gray is also a director of Duke Energy Corporation and The Phoenix Companies, Inc.
Gary Kennedy (48) was appointed a director of Elan in May 2005. From May 1997 to December 2005, he was group director, Finance & Enterprise Technology, at Allied Irish Banks, plc (AIB) and a member of the main Board of AIB and was also on the Board of M&T, AIB’s associate in the United States. Prior to that, Mr. Kennedy was group vice president at Nortel Networks Europe after starting his management career at Deloitte & Touche. He served on the Board of the Industrial Development Authority of Ireland for 10 years until he retired in December 2005. Currently an independent business consultant he is a member of the NUI Galway Development Board.
Nancy Lurker (48) was appointed a director of Elan in May 2005. She has been chief executive officer and president of ImpactRX since 2003 and was previously group vice president, Global Prescription Business, at Pharmacia (now Pfizer). She also served as a member of the Pharmacia Operating Committee.
G. Kelly Martin (47) was appointed a director of Elan in February 2003 following his appointment as president and chief executive officer. He was formerly president of the International Private Client Group and a member of the executive management and operating committee of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. He spent over 20 years at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. in a broad array of operating and executive responsibilities on a global basis.
Kieran McGowan (62) was appointed a director of Elan in December 1998. From 1990 until his retirement in December 1998, he was chief executive of the Industrial Development Authority of Ireland. He is chairman of the Governing Authority of University College Dublin and is a director of CRH, plc, Irish Life and Permanent, plc, United Drug, plc, Enterprise Ireland, and a number of private companies.
Kevin M. McIntyre, MD (70) was appointed a director of Elan in February 1984. He is an associate clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and has served as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences.
Dennis J. Selkoe, MD (62) was appointed a director of Elan in July 1996, following our acquisition of Athena Neurosciences, where he served as a director since July 1995. Dr. Selkoe was a founder of, and consultant to, Athena Neurosciences. Dr. Selkoe, a neurologist, is a professor of neurology and neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as co-director of the Center for Neurologic Disease at The Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Outside directors of Elan are compensated with fee payments and stock options (with additional payments where directors are members of board committees) and are reimbursed for travel expenses to and from board meetings.
Senior Management
Paul Breen (49) is executive vice president, EDT. He joined Elan in July 2001. Prior to joining Elan, he was vice president and joint managing director of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Ireland. Prior thereto, he was vice president and managing director of Warner-Lambert Company’s Irish operations. He is chairman of the governing body of Athlone Institute of Technology. Mr. Breen holds a degree in science and is a graduate of University College Dublin.
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Nigel Clerkin (32) was appointed senior vice president, finance and group controller in January 2004, having previously held a number of financial and strategic planning positions since joining Elan in January 1998. He is also our principal accounting officer. Mr. Clerkin is a chartered accountant and a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast.
Richard Collier (52) joined Elan as executive vice president and general counsel in November 2004. Prior to joining Elan, Mr. Collier was senior counsel at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, he was senior vice president and general counsel at Pharmacia (now Pfizer), after serving in that same position at Pharmacia & Upjohn. Prior to his experience at Pharmacia, Mr. Collier spent 11 years at Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Inc. Previously, he was in private practice after having served with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Collier is a graduate of Temple University and also earned his Juris Doctor at Temple University.
Allison Hulme, PhD (42) was appointed executive vice president autoimmune, Tysabri, global development, for Elan in January 2005. Previously, Dr. Hulme held the positions of executive vice president, Tysabri business enterprise, and senior vice president, head of global development. Prior to joining Elan in October 1995, Dr. Hulme held several positions in Clinical Research at Glaxo Wellcome Pharmaceuticals (United Kingdom) and served as Lecturer at Luton University. She holds a degree in science from Luton University and earned her PhD from Cranfield Institute of Technology.
Karen S. Kim (43) was appointed executive vice president, corporate strategy and alliances, communications, branding and specialty business group, in January 2005. She joined Elan in September 2003 as senior vice president, head of global corporate strategy and strategic alliances. Prior to joining Elan, Ms. Kim held senior management positions at Merrill Lynch, which she joined in 1998, and where she was most recently head of Client Development in the International Private Client Group. Previously she held senior management positions at the Cambridge Group and The MAC Group/ Gemini Consulting. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and earned her MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Ivan Lieberburg, MD, PhD (56) is executive vice president and chief medical officer of Elan, where he has held a number of senior positions, most recently senior vice president of research. Prior to joining Athena Neurosciences in 1987, Dr. Lieberburg held faculty positions at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He received an AB from Cornell University and earned his PhD in Neurobiology from The Rockefeller University. Dr. Lieberburg was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurobiology at Rockefeller University. He earned his MD from the University of Miami. Dr. Lieberburg was a Research Endocrine Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.
Kathleen Martorano (44) was appointed executive vice president, strategic human resources, and a member of the office of the chief executive officer, in January 2005. She joined Elan in May 2003 as senior vice president, corporate marketing & communications. Prior to joining Elan, Ms. Martorano held senior management positions at Merrill Lynch, which she joined in 1996, and where she was most recently first vice president of Marketing and Communications for the International Private Client Group. Previously, she held senior management positions with Salomon Brothers. Ms. Martorano holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Villanova University.
Dale Schenk, PhD (48) was appointed Elan’s senior vice president and chief scientific officer in June 2003. From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Schenk was senior vice president of discovery research at Elan, and from 1998 to 1999, he was the company’s vice president of neurobiology. Previously, Dr. Schenk was director of neurobiology for Athena Neurosciences from 1994 to 1998. Earlier at Athena, from 1987 to 1994, Dr. Schenk served as the leader of several research programmes. Dr. Schenk earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of California, San Diego and a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of California, San Diego.
Ted Yednock, PhD (48) was appointed senior vice president, head of global research, in September 2005. Dr. Yednock joined Athena Neurosciences in 1990 to initiate work on MS. He has contributed to a number of research efforts since that time in the areas of both autoimmune and neurodegeneration, and has held a number of scientific and management positions within the organisation. Most recently, Dr. Yednock served as vice president, biology. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Illinois and his PhD in Immunology from the University of California, San Francisco.
Officers serve at the discretion of the board of directors. No director or officer has a family relationship with any other director or officer.
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This excerpt taken from the ELN 6-K filed Apr 11, 2005.

Board of Directors and Senior Management

Directors

Kyran McLaughlin (60) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in January 1998 and was appointed chairman of Elan Corporation, plc in January 2005. He is deputy chairman and head of capital markets at Davy Stockbrokers, Ireland’s largest stockbroker firm. He is also a director of Ryanair Holdings, plc and is a director of a number of private companies.

Garo H. Armen, PhD (52) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in February 1994, and served as chairman of Elan Corporation, plc from July 2002 until January 2005. He has been chairman and chief executive officer of Antigenics, Inc. since its initial public offering in February 2000 and held the same positions in its predecessor, Antigenics, LLC since its formation in 1994. Previously, Dr. Armen was with Dean Witter Reynolds as a senior vice president of research and with E.F. Hutton & Company as first vice president, research.

Brendan E. Boushel (74) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in January 1980. From 1966 until his retirement in 1994, Mr. Boushel was a partner in the Irish law firm of T.T.L. Overend McCarron & Gibbons. Mr. Boushel also holds a number of private company directorships.

Laurence G. Crowley (68) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in March 1996. He is governor (chairman) of the Bank of Ireland. He is presently chairman of PJ Carroll & Co. and is a director of a number of private companies.

William F. Daniel (53) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in February 2003. He has served as the company secretary since December 2001, having joined Elan in March 1994 as group financial controller. In July 1996, he was appointed group vice president, finance, group controller and principal accounting officer. From 1990 to 1992, Mr. Daniel was financial director of Xtravision, plc.

Alan R. Gillespie, C.B.E. PhD (54) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in March 1996. He is chairman of Ulster Bank Limited. From November 1999 until November 2002, he was chief executive officer of CDC Group, plc and was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs International.

Ann Maynard Gray (59) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in February 2001. She was formerly president of Diversified Publishing Group of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. Ms. Gray is also a director of Duke Energy Corporation and The Phoenix Companies, Inc.

John Groom (66) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in July 1996 and served as president and chief operating officer from then until his retirement in January 2001. Mr. Groom was president, chief executive officer and director of Athena Neurosciences prior to its acquisition by us in 1996. Mr. Groom serves on the boards of Neuronyx Inc., Ligand, CV Therapeutics and Amarin Corporation plc (“Amarin”).

G. Kelly Martin (46) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in February 2003 following his appointment as president and chief executive officer. He was formerly president of the International Private Client Group and a member of

 

 

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the executive management and operating committee of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. He spent over 20 years at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. in a broad array of operating and executive responsibilities on a global basis.

Kieran McGowan (61) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in December 1998. From 1990 until his retirement in December 1998, he was chief executive of IDA Ireland. He is chairman of the Governing Authority of University College Dublin and is a director of CRH, plc, Irish Life and Permanent, plc, United Drug, plc, Enterprise Ireland, An Post National Lottery Company Ltd., and a number of private companies.

Kevin M. McIntyre, MD (69) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in February 1984. He is an associate clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and has served as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences.

Dennis J. Selkoe, MD (61) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in July 1996, following our acquisition of Athena Neurosciences, where he served as a director since July 1995. Dr. Selkoe was a founder of, and consultant to, Athena Neurosciences. Dr. Selkoe, a neurologist, is a professor of neurology and neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as co-director of the Center for Neurologic Disease at The Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

The Honorable Richard L. Thornburgh (72) was appointed a director of Elan Corporation, plc in March 1996. He served as governor of Pennsylvania for two terms and as attorney general of the United States from 1988 to 1991. He is presently of counsel to the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in Washington, D.C. He was appointed lead independent director of Elan in May 2002.

Officers serve at the discretion of the board of directors. Directors of Elan Corporation, plc are compensated with fee payments and stock options (with additional payments where directors are members of board committees) and are reimbursed for travel expenses to and from board meetings.

Senior Management

Paul Breen (48) is executive vice president, global services and operations. He joined Elan in July 2001. Prior to joining Elan, he was vice president and joint managing director of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Ireland. Prior thereto, he was vice president and managing director of Warner-Lambert Company’s Irish operations. Mr. Breen holds a degree in science and is a graduate of University College Dublin.

Nigel Clerkin (31) was appointed senior vice president, finance and group controller in January 2004, having previously held a number of financial and strategic planning positions since joining Elan in January 1998. He is also our principal accounting officer. Mr. Clerkin is a chartered accountant and a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast.

Richard Collier (51) joined Elan as executive vice president and general counsel in November 2004. Prior to joining Elan, Mr. Collier was senior counsel at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, he was senior vice president and general counsel at Pharmacia Corporation (“Pharmacia”), after serving in that same position at Pharmacia & Upjohn. Prior to his experience at Pharmacia, Mr. Collier spent 11 years at Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Inc. Previously, he was in private practice after having served with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice.

Shane Cooke (42) joined Elan as executive vice president and chief financial officer in July 2001. Prior to joining Elan, Mr. Cooke was chief executive of Pembroke Capital Limited, an aviation leasing company, and prior to that held a number of senior positions in finance in the banking and aviation industries. Mr. Cooke is a chartered accountant and a graduate of University College Dublin.

Lars Ekman MD, PhD (55) was appointed executive vice president and president, global R&D since joining the company in 2001. Prior to joining Elan, he was EVP, R&D, at Schwarz Pharma AG since 1997. From 1984 to 1997, Dr. Ekman was employed in a variety of senior scientific and clinical functions at Pharmacia (now Pfizer). Dr. Ekman is a board certified surgeon with a PhD in experimental biology and has held several clinical and academic positions in both the United States and Europe. He obtained his PhD and MD from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Allison Hulme, PhD (41) was appointed executive vice president, therapeutic franchise group for Elan in January 2005. Previously, Dr. Hulme held the positions of executive vice president, Tysabri business enterprise and senior vice president, head of global development. Prior to joining Elan in October 1995, Dr. Hulme held several positions in Clinical Research at Glaxo Wellcome Pharmaceuticals (United Kingdom) and served as Lecturer at Luton University.

Karen S. Kim (42) was appointed executive vice president, strategy, business development, brand management & communications, in January 2005. She joined Elan in September 2003 as senior vice president, head of global corporate

 

 

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strategy and strategic alliances. Prior to joining Elan, Ms. Kim held senior management positions at Merrill Lynch, which she joined in 1998, and where she was most recently head of Client Development in the International Private Client Group. Previously she held senior management positions at the Cambridge Group and The MAC Group/Gemini Consulting.

Ivan Lieberburg, MD, PhD (55) is executive vice president and chief medical officer of Elan, where he has held a number of senior positions, most recently senior vice president of research. Prior to joining Athena Neurosciences in 1987, Dr. Lieberburg held faculty positions at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

Kathleen Martorano (43) was appointed executive vice president, strategic human resources, and a member of the office of the chief executive officer, in January 2005. She joined Elan in May 2003 as senior vice president, corporate marketing & communications. Prior to joining Elan, Ms. Martorano held senior management positions at Merrill Lynch, which she joined in 1996, and where she was most recently first vice president of Marketing and Communications for the International Private Client Group. Previously, she held senior mangement positions with Salomon Brothers.

No director or officer has a family relationship with any other director or officer.

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