Our Leadership

Dr. William H. Danforth, Chairman	Dr. James C. Carrington, President	Sam Fiorello, COO & Sr. Vice President

Laura Chauvin, Vice President for Development	Hal Davies, Chief Financial Officer and V.P. of Finance	Karla Roeber, Vice President of Public and Government Affairs	Jan Jaworski, Vice President for Research

Board of Trustees

William H. Danforth, M.D.
Chancellor Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis

Roger N. Beachy, Ph.D.
Vice Chairman
President Emeritus, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

John F. McDonnell
Vice Chairman
Retired Chairman of the Board of McDonnell Douglas Corporation

Senator Christopher S. "Kit" Bond
Partner, Thompson Coburn LLP

Daniel A. Burkhardt
Partner, Oakwood Medical Investors

Brett A. Campbell
Principal, Edward Jones

Christopher Borders Danforth
Chief Marketing Officer-Owner, Kennelwood Pet Resorts

Brady J. Deaton, Ph.D.
Chancellor, University of Missouri-Columbia

Arnold W. Donald
President and Chief Executive Officer, Executive Leadership Council

Hugh Grant, Chairman
President & CEO, Monsanto Company

David W. Kemper
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Commerce Bancshares Inc.

Alex F. McCalla, Ph.D.
Director, Rural Development, The World Bank, (Retired), and Professor of Agricultural Economics Emeritus, University of California, Davis

Philip Needleman, Ph.D.
Former Chief Scientist Pharmacia & Monsanto/Searle; Former Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology at the Washington University School of Medicine

Alfonso Romo-Garza
Chairman & CEO, SAVIA, S.A. de CV., Mexico

Todd R. Schnuck
President and Chief Operating Officer, Schnuck Markets, Inc.

Mary Danforth Stillman
Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis

P. Roy Vagelos, M.D.
Retired Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Merck & Co., Inc.

Robert L. Virgil, D.B.A.
Retired Partner, Edward Jones

Eric R. Ward, Ph.D.
President, Two Blades Foundation

Phyllis M. Wise, Ph.D.
Vice President, University of Illinois and Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mark S. Wrighton, Ph.D.
Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis

Peter Wyse Jackson, Ph.D.
President, Missouri Botanical Garden

Usha Barwale Zehr, Ph.D.
Joint Director of Research, Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company

Participants

Robyn Frankel
President, Frankel Public Relations

James L. Johnson
Senior Vice President - Investments, Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc.

Walter L. Metcalfe, Jr.
Senior Counsel, Bryan Cave LLP