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F. Richard Nichol, Ph.D. currently serves on the boards of directors of First Consulting Group, a system integrator in the life sciences space, and G Recordings. Dr. Nichol has spent 36 years in the pharmaceutical, contract clinical research, and biotechnology industries. In 1975, he was a cofounder of IBRD, a contract research organization, and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until retiring in 1995. At that time, IBRD had revenues of $45 million with 437 employees in eight countries. Subsequently, he was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CoCensys, a neuroscience research company, which was sold to Purdue Pharma in September 1999. Dr. Nichol received a BA, MS and Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University. | 