Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> September 20, 1999
JOHN P. FUNKHOUSER, President and CEO of PharmaNetics, Inc., is a senior
executive with a successful track record of managing medical device
companies. His experience spans more than 20 years of investing in and
managing high growth companies. His business experiences encompass
commercial banking, investment banking, venture capital and managing
four technology driven companies as CEO. Mr. Funkhouser has served on
numerous boards of venture backed, high growth companies. Mr.
Funkhouser joined PharmaNetics in 1993 as CEO, where the company's
products were in the prototype stage of development, and has managed the
products' commercialization, as well as the automation of the company's
manufacturing facility. The company went public in December 1995. Mr.
Funkhouser holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the
University of Virginia. Profile
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