Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 14, 2002

August Moretti – Surromed Inc

AUGUST MORETTI is Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of SurroMed, Inc. He joined SurroMed in January 2001 after practicing corporate and securities law for 25 years at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, a national law firm. In his practice Mr. Moretti represented a broad range of life science companies, including Affymax, Affymetrix, Maxygen, Cepheid, Thoratec Laboratories Corporation, AviGenics, inc., and Atrionix. Mr. Moretti lectured in finance at University of California, Berkeley, School of Business Administration from 1977 to 1979, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Berkeley Entrepreneur's Forum. Mr. Moretti has a BA degree in Economics, magna cum laude from Princeton University (1972) and a JD degree (cum laude) from Harvard Law School (1975). Profile
TWST: Could you give us a brief historical sketch of SurroMed and a

picture of things as they are now?

Mr. Moretti: SurroMed is a life science company founded in 1997 by Alex

Zaffaroni, Gordon