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Gearóid M. Faherty — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Gearóid M. Faherty has been an executive director and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eurand since April 1999. He directed the Eurand business while it was owned by American Home Products Corporation, now Wyeth, since 1994. Previously, Mr. Faherty was the General Manager of the American Home Products Corporation subsidiary, Fort Dodge Animal Health, and has held positions at subsidiaries of Sterling Drug and Pfizer. Mr. Faherty completed his bachelor of science degree at University College Galway, Ireland, and has a master's degree in chemical engineering and biotechnology from the National University of Ireland.

Rolf A. Classon

Rolf A. Classon has been a non-executive director since August 2007 and serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees. Mr. Classon served as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Hillenbrand Industries, a U.S. publicly traded holding company with healthcare operations, from May 2005 until March 2006, when he was appointed non-executive chairman of the board of directors. From November 2002 until his retirement in July 2004, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of Bayer HealthCare. Previously, he had been President of Bayer's Diagnostics Division from 1995, having joined the division in 1991 as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Service.

Prior to joining Bayer, Mr. Classon had a long career at Pharmacia, most recently acting as President and Chief Operating Officer of Pharmacia Biosystems AB from 1990 to 1991. Previously he had been President of Pharmacia Development Company, Inc. Prior to relocating to the United States in 1984, he had served as President of the Hospital Products Division of Pharmacia AB. He began his career as Director, Organization Development of Pharmacia in 1969, assuming increasing responsibility before moving into the area of management consulting from 1974 to 1978. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of PharmaNet Development Group, Inc., Millipore Corporation, Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and is Chairman of the Board of Auxilium Pharmaceuticals.

Jonathan J. Cosgrave

Jonathan J. Cosgrave, currently a Principal within the healthcare investing team of Warburg Pincus which he joined in 2004, spent 3 years within the investment banking division of J.P. Morgan & Co. in London focused on providing corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions advisory services to U.K. publicly quoted companies, predominantly in the pharmaceutical sector. Mr. Cosgrave holds a BSc in pharmacy from Trinity College, Dublin and a diploma in business & IT from the Smurfit School of Business at University College, Dublin. Mr. Cosgrave is a former director of Euromedic International B.V., a pan-European provider of diagnostic imaging, laboratory diagnostic, radiotherapy, and dialysis treatment services.

William J. Jenkins, MD

William J. Jenkins has been a non-executive director since July 2000. He serves on the Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. Until March 1999, Dr. Jenkins was the Head of Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs Worldwide and a member of the Executive Committee at Novartis Pharma AG in Switzerland. Dr. Jenkins is a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry and to private equity and venture capital firms and a non-executive director of BTG plc, and Consort Medical plc and Vaximm AG. He is Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Evotec AG and a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of BB Biotech Ventures II and Nicholas Piramal India Ltd. Dr. Jenkins holds a B.A., M.D., and other advanced degrees from Cambridge University in England, as well as advanced degrees from the Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom and from London University.

Angelo C. Malahias

Angelo Malahias has been a non-executive director since August 2007 and serves on the Compensation Committee and as Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Malahias served as President of Andrx Corporation from February 2004 until November 2006 when Andrx Corporation was acquired by Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to his appointment as President, he also served as Chief Financial Officer of Andrx Corporation from January 1996 and was part of the executive team that took Andrx public in June 1996. In 2005, Mr. Malahias re-assumed the role of CFO ad interim in addition to his responsibilities as President through the close of the acquisition process with Watson.

Previously, Mr. Malahias served as Vice President and CFO of Circa Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from January 1995 to January 1996 and Corporate Controller from July 1994 to January 1995. Mr. Malahias graduated from NYU-Stern with a bachelor of science degree in accounting and economics in 1983 and received his New York State CPA designation in 1985.

Simon Turton, PhD

Dr. Simon Turton heads Warburg Pincus' healthcare investing activities in Europe and was a Principal at Index Ventures in Geneva prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 2003. He has 9 years of experience investing in biopharma companies following a 10-year career in the international pharmaceutical industry incorporating research, business development, and general management. Previously, Dr. Turton worked for Servier, the French pharmaceutical company, where he managed Northern Asia operations in Tokyo and Paris. He also worked for a pharmaceutical strategic alliances consultancy, where he was in charge of business development. Dr. Turton has an MBA from INSEAD, which he attended as a Sainsbury Management Fellow in the life sciences, and a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of London. He is a director of Archimedes Pharma, ProStrakan, and Tornier.