Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Ernest Mario has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Boston Scientific Corporation since October 2001.

Since August 2007, Ernest has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Capnia, Inc., a privately-held pharmaceutical company. From August 2007 until February 2014, Ernest also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Capnia, Inc.

From April 2003 to August 2007, Ernest was Chairman of the Board of Directors at Reliant Pharmaceuticals and also served as its Chief Executive Officer from 2003 to 2006.

Prior to joining Reliant, Ernest was the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company and its predecessor, Apothogen, Inc. from January 2002 to April 2003.

From 1993 to 1997, Ernest served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer at ALZA Corporation, a research based pharmaceutical company with leading drug delivery technologies and Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2001.

Prior to joining ALZA, Ernest served as the Chief Executive at Glaxo Holdings plc from 1989 to 1993 and as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer from 1992 to March 1993.

Ernest presently serves on the boards of directors of Celgene Corporation, TONIX Pharmaceuticals Holdings Corp., XenoPort, Inc., Chimerix, Inc. and Kindred Biosciences, Inc.

Ernest previously served as a Member of the Board of Directors of Maxygen, Inc. and Vivus, Inc. and was a Trustee of Duke University from 1988 to 2007 and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Duke University Health System which he chaired from its inception in 1996 until he retired in 2007.

Ernest is Chairman of the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education and serves as an Advisor to The Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University.

Ernest holds a B.S. in Pharmacy from Rutgers University and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Physical Sciences from the University of Rhode Island. Ernest also holds honorary doctorates from Rutgers University and the University of Rhode Island. In 2007,

Ernest was awarded the Remington Honor Medal by the American Pharmacists Association, the pharmacy profession’s highest honor.