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 · Co-Chairman of MMI Board of Directors
· President, and CEO, MetaMorphix®, Inc.
Dr. Quattlebaum was elected Chairman of MetaMorphix® after having served as President and CEO since early 1999. He joined the Company as Interim President in January 1998 after serving as an agricultural consultant for the Company. Dr. Quattlebaum has more than 20 years of agricultural industry experience, much of it within the biotechnology sector. He most recently served as President and CEO of biosys, Inc., the second-largest producer of biological pesticides, from 1995 to 1997; and as its President and COO from 1992 to 1995. From 1987 to 1992, Dr. Quattlebaum worked with Rhone-Poulenc, the French pharmaceutical and agricultural chemical company, where he held several key executive positions, including Global Business Manager for the company’s foliar insecticide business in
Lyon
,
France
, from 1987 to 1990; and Director of North American Manufacturing Task Force from 1990 to 1992. Dr. Quattlebaum began his professional career with Union Carbide Ag Products Company, with which he held a number of ascending positions including Director of Development. Dr. Quattlebaum serves on the Board of Directors (including the Executive Committee) of Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and serves as Vice Chairman of BIO’s Food and Agriculture Governing Board. Dr. Quattlebaum received a B.A. in Biology from
Catawba
College
,
Salisbury
,
NC
; and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Entomology, specializing in Insect Pathology, from
Clemson
University
.
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