Officers and Directors

Management

Clive A. Meanwell
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Clive Meanwell has been a director since 1996. He has served as our Chief Executive Officer since August 2004, and he served as our President from August 2004 to December 2004, as our Executive Chairman from September 2001 to August 2004 and as our Chief Executive Officer and President from 1996 to September 2001. From 1995 to 1996, Dr. Meanwell was a Partner and Managing Director at MPM Capital, L.P., a venture capital firm. From 1986 to 1995, Dr. Meanwell held various positions at Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, including Senior Vice President from 1992 to 1995, Vice President from 1991 to 1992 and Director of Product Development from 1986 to 1991. Dr. Meanwell also serves as a director of Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. Dr. Meanwell received an M.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Glenn P. Sblendorio
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Glenn P. Sblendorio has been our Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President since March 2006. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Sblendorio was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. until it was acquired by OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in November 2005. From July 2000 to February 2002, Mr. Sblendorio served as Senior Vice President of Business Development for the Company. From 1998 to July 2000, Mr. Sblendorio was the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of MPM Capital Advisors, LLC, an investment bank specializing in healthcare related transactions. Mr. Sblendorio’s pharmaceutical experience also includes 12 years at Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, in a variety of senior financial positions, including Chief Financial Officer of Roche Molecular Systems and Head of Finance-Controller for Amgen/Roche Europe. Mr. Sblendorio received his B.B.A. in accounting from Pace University and his M.B.A. in Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University.


Paul M. Antinori
Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Paul M. Antinori, J.D. has been our General Counsel since May 2002 and has been a Vice President since August 2004. From March 1998 to April 2002, Mr. Antinori was General Counsel and a consultant to Physician Computer Network, Inc., a healthcare information technology company. Prior to March 1998, Mr. Antinori was a partner at Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione in Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Antinori received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and his B.A. from Boston College.

Bill O’Connor
Chief Accounting Officer

Bill O'Connor has been our Chief Accounting Officer since February 2008. He joined The Medicines Company in April 2006 as Vice President and Controller. Before joining the MDCO, Bill worked at Eyetech Pharmaceuticals as the VP of Finance. Prior to that Bill work for Trophix a Biotech company that specializes in pain medications. In addition, Bill has 14 years of experience in the public accounting sector. Bill is a CPA and holds Bachelors Degree in Accounting from Farleigh Dickinson University.

Leslie C. Rohrbacker
Vice President, Chief Human Strategy Officer

Leslie C. Rohrbacker joined The Medicines Company as Associate General Counsel in December 2005 after 10 years of private practice in large law firms, specializing in employment counseling and complex litigation. She subsequently served as Deputy General Counsel from March 2008 until June of 2009 when she assumed leadership of the Human Strategy and Resources team. Leslie has worked with human resources departments and executives in both large and small organizations for fifteen years, devising business solutions to all types of challenges facing these organizations and their associates. Leslie received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Boston College and her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law where she was also an adjunct professor of legal writing and oral advocacy for three years. Leslie is a member of the Advisory Council to the Board of the Alzheimer’s Association of Greater New Jersey, was a member of the Board of that organization from 2002-2007 and is currently a member of the Pediatric Philanthropy Counsel for the Morristown Memorial Goryeb Children’s Hospital.

Directors

William W. Crouse

William W. Crouse has been a director since April 2003. Since January 1994, Mr. Crouse has been a Managing Director of HealthCare Ventures, a venture capital firm with a focus on biotechnology companies. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Crouse served as Worldwide President of Ortho Diagnostic Systems, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson that manufactures diagnostic tests for hospitals, and a Vice President of Johnson & Johnson International. Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Crouse was a Division Director of DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company, a pharmaceutical firm, where he was responsible for international operations and worldwide commercial development activities. Before joining Dupont, he served as President of Revlon Health Care Group’s companies in Latin America, Canada, and Asia/Pacific. He also held numerous management positions at E.R. Squibb & Sons, a pharmaceutical company. Mr. Crouse is currently the chairman of the board of directors of Uluru, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company and is a member of the Boards of Trustees of Lehigh University and the New York Blood Center. Mr. Crouse received a B.S. in finance and economics from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from Pace University.

Robert J. Hugin

Robert J. Hugin has been a director since April 2003. Since May 2006, Mr. Hugin has served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Celgene Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company focused on cancer and immunological diseases. From June 1999 to May 2006, Mr. Hugin served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Celgene. From 1985 to 1999, Mr. Hugin held positions with J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc., an investment banking firm, serving most recently as a Managing Director. Mr. Hugin is a director of Celgene Corporation and Atlantic Health System, Inc. Mr. Hugin received an A.B. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Armin M. Kessler, Dh.c.

Armin M. Kessler has been a director since October 1998. Dr. Kessler joined us after a
35-year career in the pharmaceutical industry, which included senior management positions at Sandoz Pharma Ltd. (now Novartis Pharma AG) in Switzerland, the United States and Japan and, most recently, at Hoffmann-La Roche, in Basel, Switzerland, where he was Chief Operating Officer and Head of the Pharmaceutical Division until he retired in 1995. Dr. Kessler currently also serves as a director of Gen-Probe Incorporated and Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a Swiss publicly traded company. Dr. Kessler received degrees in physics and chemistry from the University of Pretoria, a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Cape Town, a law degree from Seton Hall and an honorary doctorate in business administration from the University of Pretoria.

Robert G. Savage

Robert G. Savage has been a director since April 2003. Since May 2003, Mr. Savage has served as President of Strategic Imagery LLC, a consulting company he owns. From February 2002 to April 2003, Mr. Savage was Group Vice President and President for the General Therapeutics and Inflammation Business of Pharmacia Corporation, a research-based pharmaceutical firm acquired by Pfizer Inc. in April 2003. From September 1996 to January 2002, Mr. Savage held several senior positions with Johnson & Johnson, including Worldwide Chairman for the Pharmaceuticals Group during 2001, Company Group Chairman responsible for the North America pharmaceuticals business from 2000 to 2001, President, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals from 1998 to 2000 and Vice President Sales & Marketing from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Savage also serves as a director for Noven Pharmaceuticals and EpiCept Corporation. Mr. Savage received a B.S. in biology from Upsala College and an M.B.A. from Rutgers University.

Hiroaki Shigeta

Hiroaki Shigeta has been a director since April 2007. Mr. Shigeta served as a consultant to us from July 2006 to December 2007. From January 2005 until June 2006, he served as a consultant to various Japanese pharmaceutical companies. From October 1993 to December 2004, Mr. Shigeta served in a variety of senior management positions with Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. and its affiliates. From January 2003 to December 2004, Mr. Shigeta was the U.S. Head, Far East Relations of Hoffman-La Roche and from June 2002 to April 2003, he was a Member of the Board of Chugai Seiyaku KK, Tokyo, a majority-owned affiliate of Roche Holding of Switzerland. From January 2001 to May 2002, Mr. Shigeta served as Chairman and Representative Director of Nippon Roche KK, a pharmaceutical company and a Japanese affiliate of Roche Holding of Switzerland. From October 1993 to December 2000, Mr. Shigeta was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nippon Roche KK. Mr. Shigeta received a B.A. in economics from Momoyama Gakuin University in Osaka, Japan and a B.Sc from Haas Business School, University of California at Berkeley.

Melvin Spigelman, M.D.

Melvin K. Spigelman has been a director since September 2005. Since January 2009, Dr. Spigelman has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, a nonprofit organization which seeks to accelerate the discovery and development of faster-acting and affordable drugs to fight tuberculosis. From June 2003 to January 2009, Dr. Spigelman served as Director of Research and Development of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. Before joining the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, Dr. Spigelman was the President of Hudson-Douglas Ltd, a consulting company, from June 2001 to June 2003. From 2000 to 2001, Dr. Spigelman served as a Vice President, Global Clinical Centers at Knoll Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical unit of BASF Pharma, and from 1992 to 2000, Dr. Spigelman was the Vice President of Research and Development at Knoll. Dr. Spigelman serves as a director of Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc. Dr. Spigelman received a B.A. in engineering from Brown University and an M.D. from The Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Elizabeth Wyatt

Elizabeth H.S. Wyatt has been a director since March 2005. Prior to her retirement in 2000, Ms. Wyatt held several senior positions at Merck & Co., Inc., a pharmaceutical company, over the course of 20 years, including most recently, Vice President, Corporate Licensing. Previously she had been a consultant and academic administrator, responsible for the Harvard Business School’s first formal marketing of its executive education programs. She also serves as a member of the Board of Sweet Briar College and recently chaired the Search Committee for the next President of Sweet Briar College. Ms. Wyatt received a B.A. from Sweet Briar College, a M.Ed. from Boston University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.