Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> November 1, 1999

David B. Mcwilliams – Texas Biotechnology Corporation (txb)

DAVID B. MCWILLIAMS has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of Texas Biotechnology Corp. since July 1992. Prior to joining Texas Biotechnology he served as President, Chief Executive Officer of Zonagen, Inc., a pharmaceutical research company involved in reproductive health, from June 1989 to July 1992, where he was also a Director. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Kallestad Diagnostics, a medical diagnostics manufacturing company, from 1984-1988. Mr. McWilliams served as President of E.M. Industries, Harleco Diagnostics Division, from 1980-1984. He has held various executive and senior management positions with Abbott Laboratories, McKinsey & Company and Amoco Chemicals Corporation, and currently serves as a Director of Structural Bioinformatics, Inc. Mr. McWilliams received a BS from Washington and Jefferson College in Chemistry, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and received an MBA from the University of Chicago. Profile
TWST: Let's start out by your giving us a brief overview of Texas

Biotechnology Corporation, the company's history, activities, those

kinds of things.

Mr. McWilliams: The company is