Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> April 16, 2001

Gary Steele – Landec Corporation (lndc)

GARY T. STEELE has been Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Landec Corporation, a publicly traded materials science company in Menlo Park, California, since 1991. Prior to joining Landec he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Molecular Devices Corporation, Sunnyvale, California, from 1985 to 1991; Vice President, Product Development, of Genentech Corp., a biotechnology company in South San Francisco, California from 1981 to 1985; Senior Manager, McKinsey & Co., a management consulting firm in San Francisco, California from 1975 to 1981. Mr. Steele is on the Carmel Valley Manor Life Care Center Board. He has a BS from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Stanford University. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a historical sketch of Landec Corporation and

then a picture of the company as it is now?

Mr. Steele: Landec has invested approximately $50 million to develop