Stephen G. Juelsgaard

Director at AltruBio

Stephen (“Steve”) Juelsgaard, is a former executive vice president, secretary and chief compliance officer of Genentech, Inc. He reported to Genentech’s CEO and was responsible for Genentech’s Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, Government Affairs (Federal and State), Human Resources, and Healthcare Compliance groups, as well as the Business Services group, which included Strategic Facilities Planning, Corporate Security, Business Continuity, and Environment, Health & Safety. He also chaired Genentech’s Capital Governance Committee, which oversaw major capital expenditures at the company and was a member of Genentech’s Executive Committee, the most senior management committee at the company. He served as secretary to Genentech’s Board of Directors and each of the Board’s Committees from 1997 to 2009. Dr. Juelsgaard’s career at Genentech spanned 24 years. He joined Genentech in 1985 as corporate counsel and became senior corporate counsel in 1989. In 1992 he became vice president, Corporate Law and in 1994 was named general counsel, a role he served in through 2007. He was named a senior vice president in 1998. In 2002, he was appointed executive vice president and in 2005 was named chief compliance officer. He was the company’s representative on the board of directors of the California Healthcare Institute from 2005 until 2009. He left Genentech in 2009 when it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Roche. Prior to joining Genentech, he was an associate for three years with the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California. Prior to attending law school, he was engaged for three years in a private veterinary medical (equine) practice in Southern California. He is a member of the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (board of directors) of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine where he also is the chairman of the ICOC’s Intellectual Property and Industry Subcommittee and serves on the Application Review, Science Finance and Evaluation Subcommittees. He is a past member of the board of directors of Ivivi Health Sciences LLC, a private medical device company, and of Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc., a private company engaged in the development of pulsed electromagnetic field technology as well as transcranial electrical stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation technologies. Dr. Juelsgaard received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Iowa State University in 1972 and a Masters degree in Veterinary Clinical Sciences in 1975 from Iowa State University where his research was focused on immunology. In 1982 he received a law degree from Stanford Law School.

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