Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> December 1, 2008
GARY STEELE is the Chairman, President and CEO of Landec Corporation, a publicly
traded materials science company in Menlo Park, California, since 1991. Prior to
his employment at Landec, Mr. Steele was President and CEO of Molecular Devices
Corporation in Sunnyvale, California, from 1985 to1991 and before that he was
Vice President of Product Development at Genentech Corp., a biotechnology
company in South San Francisco, California, from 1981 to1985. After graduation
from Stanford University in 1975, he worked as Senior Manager at McKinsey & Co.,
a management consulting firm in San Francisco, California. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a historical sketch of Landec and then give us a picture of things as they are now?
Mr. Steele: Landec is a material science company based in Menlo Park,