Board

David Redfern is the Chairman of ViiV Healthcare’s Board. David was appointed as GSK’s Chief Strategy Officer in May 2008 and is responsible for proactive exploration of new business opportunities, strategic planning and dermatology. He is a member of the GSK Corporate Executive Team. Previously, he was Senior Vice President, Northern Europe with responsibility for managing GSK's pharmaceutical businesses in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. David also had overall responsibility for the European HIV business from 2006 to 2008.

David joined the company in 1994 from PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he managed a portfolio of audit clients and corporate transactions. He began his career with GSK as Corporate Accounts Manager, and spent 4 years in the Corporate Development team before being appointed Finance Director of European Pharmaceuticals in 1999. He was appointed Senior Vice President & Area Director, Central Europe in 2003, where he successfully led the Central Europe markets through their transition into the EU, and Northern Europe in 2005.

David has a Bachelor of Science degree from Bristol University in the UK and is a Chartered Accountant.

Our CEO is Dr Dominique Limet, former Senior Vice President (SVP) and Head of Personalised Medicine Strategy for GSK.

Dominique worked for Ciba-Geigy before joining Glaxo Wellcome in France in 1996. He became Chairman and Managing Director in 2000 and, subsequently, General Manager of GSK France. In 2003 he was appointed SVP and Area Director for GSK's pharmaceutical business in Southern & Eastern Europe.

Dominique holds a Doctorate in Medicine, a specialisation in occupational medicine, and Marketing and Management qualifications earned at Insead. At GSK, Dominique served as a member of GSK's Positive Action Steering Committee and was a board member of the GSK France Foundation, which supported a range of HIV/AIDS-related programmes around the world.

Cees Heiman is Regional President of Europe (which includes Australia/New Zealand on an interim basis) for the Specialty Care Business Unit at Pfizer.

Cees joined Pfizer in 1982 in the Medical Department of Pfizer Netherlands, working on assignments in the Marketing and New Product departments in the Netherlands, US and India. He has held senior positions in Hungary, Japan, Poland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Prior to taking on his current responsibilities at Pfizer, Cees was Regional President of Pfizer Central and Eastern Europe (CEER) and also Country Manager for Italy.

Cees holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Pharmacy from Leiden University in the Netherlands and is a licensed pharmacist.

Dr Zhi Hong is SVP and Head of the Infectious Diseases Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery at GSK.

Prior to joining GSK in 2007, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Ardea Biosciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on small-molecule drugs to treat viral diseases, cancer and inflammation.

An inventor on numerous patents and an author of more than 100 research papers, Zhi received his bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Fudan University in Shanghai and his PhD in Biochemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Abbas Hussain is President, Emerging Markets at GSK. He joined from Eli Lilly and Company, where he was President, Europe.

Abbas joined Lilly UK in 1988 before moving to Australia in 1990. Over the following 12 years, he held senior positions for the company in the US, Asia, India, Turkey and Germany. He was appointed European Mid-Size Area Director in 2003 and then Vice President of Europe with specific responsibility for the Western European Mid-Size countries, Africa & Middle East Area/Commonwealth of Independent States and Central & Eastern Europe regions.

Abbas has a degree in Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacology from Loughborough University of Technology, UK.

Duncan Learmouth is SVP, Developing Countries and Market Access. He was previously SVP, Global Communications.

Duncan joined Glaxo Wellcome in 1991 and became VP of Investor Relations folowing the merger with SmithKline Beecham in 2000. He was subsequently appointed VP, Global Investor Relations and, in February 2006, added the competitive excellence function to his responsibilities, which included the role of secretary to the CET, GSK's Executive Committee.

Before moving to Glaxo Wellcome, Duncan was with Deloitte and Touche in London, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1991. Duncan was educated at Durham University where he gained a degree in Chemistry.

Ian McCubbin is SVP of Strategy, Logistics and External Supply at GSK.

He joined GSK's manufacturing and supply business in 1985 and over 16 years held a number of senior production, logistics and continuous improvement roles including Site Director at the Ware manufacturing site in the UK. Ian re-joined GSK in 2006, having held senior operational roles in both Merck Generics and IVAX.

Ian holds a degree in Pharmacy from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Dr. Rod MacKenzie is Senior Vice President, Head of Pfizer PharmaTherapeutics Research and Development. He oversees an international network of scientists and other pharmaceutical R&D professionals in Research, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Asia R&D, and their functional lines.

Rod began his career at Pfizer in 1986 as a Research Scientist and worked in many medicinal chemistry programs across various therapeutic areas. Rod is the co-inventor of darifenacin (EnablexTM). He has held a range of posts in the following years, including Senior Vice President, Drug Safety R&D and Comparative Medicine, and Senior Vice President, Head of Worldwide Research.

Rod graduated from the University of Glasgow with a 1^st Class Honors degree in chemistry and completed his PhD at Imperial College, London. He was awarded a NATO Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and spent two years at Columbia University, New York working in the area of molecular recognition.

Dr Ellen Strahlman is SVP and the Chief Medical Officer for GSK.

Prior to joining GSK in August 2008, Ellen was Vice President, Worldwide Business Development at Pfizer. She joined the company in 2005 as the Vice President and Worldwide Therapeutic Area Head for Ophthalmology at Pfizer, Inc. Previously, Ellen worked at Bausch & Lomb, Merck & Co and, more recently, at Novartis and Virgoen Ltd.

Throughout her career, Ellen has been a champion and spokesperson for public health and world heath issues, including HIV. She is a graduate of Harvard University (Biochemical Sciences and Applied Mathematics) and obtained her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has medical qualifications in general surgery and ophthalmology, together with a Masters Degree in Health Sciences.