Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> February 18, 2002

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 brief historical sketch of Landec Corp. and

then an overview of what you're doing at the present time?

Mr. Steele: Landec Corporation has approximately $200 million