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2007 Kickoff Meeting and Networking Reception

The Role of Licensing in Building a Biopharmaceutical Company

Thursday, January 11, 2007
5:30 p.m.
Hotel@MIT, Cambridge, MA

Presenter: 
Alan Crane, Polaris Venture Partners. Alan Crane is CEO of Tempo Pharmaceuticals and a venture partner at Polaris Venture Partners. From 2002 until 2006, Mr. Crane was President and CEO of Momenta Pharmaceuticals. He joined Momenta as the fifth employee and built the company into one of the most valuable biotechnology companies founded in the last five years, creating an advanced and diversified pipeline, entering into two strategic alliances with the Sandoz division of Novartis, and raising $275M. Prior to this, Mr. Crane was senior vice president of global corporate development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for leading Millennium's strategic partnering, mergers and acquisitions, and licensing activities, generating over $2B in partner funding and acquiring 19 development stage products. Prior to Millennium, Mr. Crane was a marketing executive at Dupont-Merck and a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and Arthur D. Little.
Boards: Mr. Crane serves on the boards of Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Adnexus and Vaccinex, and is a member of the Trust Board of Children's Hospital, Boston and a founder and member of the board of the Autism Consortium.
Education: Mr. Crane received his M.B.A. in 1992 and his B.A. summa cum laude and M.A. in 1986, all from Harvard University. Mr. Crane also attended Harvard Medical School from 1986 to 1988 before pursuing a business career.

Thursday, January 11, 2007
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. – Networking Reception
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. – Presentation

Hotel@MIT
20 Sidney Street
Cambridge, MA  02139
617-577-0200
Hotel@MIT is accessible from the
Central Square T Stop on the Red Line
Directions available at:  http://www.hotelatmit.com/about-map-directions.html 

Registration:
The cost is $30.00 per attendee. Please register by January 8, 2007.

Online: at http://www.usa-canada.les.org/registration.asp?ID=270

By Check: Make checks payable to "LES Boston" and return this invitation and the registration fee to:

Carolyn Sullivan Bektas
Boston Chapter Chairperson, Licensing Executives Society
WilmerHale
60 State Street
Boston, MA  02109
Telephone: 617-526-6426 Facsimile: 617-526-5000
e-mail: carolyn.bektas@wilmerhale.com