Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> May 22, 2001
ROBERT B. CHESS, Chairman of Inhale Therapeutic Systems, Inc., joined
the company in 1991 as its first non-founder employee, and served as its
CEO and then co-CEO until 2000. Mr. Chess was previously the co-Founder
and President of Penederm, Inc., a dermatologic pharmaceutical company
focused on improved topical delivery. He has held management positions
at Intel Corporation and Metaphor Computer Systems (now part of IBM),
and served as a member of President Bush's White House staff. Mr. Chess
serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the
Biotechnology Industry Organization, is a member of the Board of
Pharsight Corp., and is a trustee of the Committee for Economic
Development. Mr. Chess received his BS degree in Engineering from the
California Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard. Profile
Therapeutic Systems, and then a profile of the company as it is now?
Mr. Chess: Inhale was founded just over 10 years ago. Our
