Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> August 14, 2000

David Mcwilliams – Texas Biotechnology Corporation (txb)

DAVID B. MCWILLIAMS has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of Texas Biotechnology Corp. since July 1992. Prior to joining Texas Biotechnology he served as President, Chief Executive Officer of Zonagen, Inc., a pharmaceutical research company involved in reproductive health, from June 1989 to July 1992, where he was also a Director. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Kallestad Diagnostics, a medical diagnostics manufacturing company, from 1984-1988. Mr. McWilliams served as President of E.M. Industries, Harleco Diagnostics Division, from 1980-1984. He has held various executive and senior management positions with Abbott Laboratories, McKinsey & Company and Amoco Chemicals Corporation, and currently serves as a Director of Structural Bioinformatics, Inc. Mr. McWilliams received a BS from Washington and Jefferson College in Chemistry, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and received an MBA from the University of Chicago. Profile
TWST: Could you give us a summary on the company, a short history of

your own involvement, and then a description of the business today?

Mr. McWilliams: The company was started in 1989