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Mr. Harder has been a shareholder of Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C., a Texas-based law firm, since April 2004, and he is chairman of the firm's Biotechnology Practice Group. From January 1999 to April 2004, he was the Managing Partner of The Woodlands, Texas office of Andrews Kurth LLP, an office he started for Andrews Kurth in 1993 to service the biotech companies located in The Woodlands. From July 1996 to July 1998, Mr. Harder was Vice President-Corporate Development and General Counsel of The ForeFront Group, Inc., a Nasdaq National Market company founded by Baylor College of Medicine to commercialize software for the scientific community. Mr. Harder has over 20 years of experience in representing biotech, life science and software companies, both public and private, as well as investors, venture capitalists, technology transfer departments and entrepreneurs engaged in commercializing inventions. He obtained his BA degree from Valparaiso University in 1975 and his JD from the University of Illinois in 1978. | 