Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> January 18, 1999

Gary T. 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: Give us a background summary on Landec, enough information that it

will put us into context what you see as your business today, what you

see as your company today.

Mr. Steele: The