Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> July 8, 2002
LANCE IGNON is Vice President, Corporate Affairs of VaxGen, Inc. Mr.
Ignon has more than 15 years of experience as a business journalist and
communications professional. Prior to joining VaxGen, he served as
Director of Corporate Communications for Tenet Healthcare Corporation,
one of the nation's largest operators of acute care hospitals. He also
served as Vice President of Investor Relations at Sitrick and Company,
one of the nation's leading crisis communications firms. As a
journalist, Mr. Ignon served as founding editor of an award-winning
business newspaper and as a finance reporter and editor at Investor's
Business Daily. He also was a reporter for Bloomberg Business News, The
Economist Group and the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Ignon earned a BA degree
in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine, and an
MA from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Profile
picture of the things you're doing at the present time?
Mr. Ignon: VaxGen was founded in 1995 to carry on the development of
