BNET Industries
Market Cap:$537.0M
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$8.7M
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
We are a development stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of recombinant human enzymes for the infertility, ophthalmology, and oncology markets. Our operations to date have been limited to organizing and staffing the Company, acquiring, developing and securing its technology and undertaking product development for a limited number of product candidates. As the Company has not begun principal operations of commercializing a product candidate, the financial statements have been presented as a development stage company. DeliaTroph Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (?DeliaTroph?), our predecessor company, was incorporated on February 26, 1998. Effective March 11, 2004, DeliaTroph (which was doing business at the time as Hyalozyme Therapeutics, Inc.), Global Yacht Services, Inc. (?Global?), a publicly traded Nevada corporation and Hyalozyme Acquisition Corporation (?Merger Sub?), a wholly owned subsidiary of Global, completed a transaction in which Merger Sub merged with and into DeliaTroph (the ?Merger?), with DeliaTroph surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Global.
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
David A. RamsayNumber of Employees 129
Contact Information
11588 Sorrento Valley Road
Suite 17
San Diego, California 92121
(858) 794-8889
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Biological Product (except Diagnostic) Manufacturing: 325414
Recent Events
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ProMetic Life signs five-year supply seal with Halozyme
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Halozyme takes bigger loss on testing expenses
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Baxter Announces the Commercial Launch of HYLENEX at ACEP for Use in Pediatric Rehydration
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Baxter Announces the Commercial Launch of HYLENEX at ACEP for Use in Pediatric Rehydration
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Company, People, and Regulatory Briefs: Amgen and GSK Collaborate; WuXi Appoints VP of Pharmacology; More...
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Halozyme Therapeutics Taps Michael Shepard as VP of Discovery Research
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Halozyme Therapeutics Names VP
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Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. And your first question comes from the line of Eun Yang. Eun Yang – Jefferies & Company Thanks. Regarding the Baxter collaboration for subcu GAMMAGARD, CSL also has subcutaneous immunoglobulin product that is currently under regulatory review. Could you Jonathan – could you comment on...
Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator And the first question comes from Kevin DeGeeter. Kevin DeGeeter Hi, good morning, guys. Jonathan Lim Hi, good morning. Kevin DeGeeter A couple of quick questions here. For the glucodynamic study and inter-patient variability study for insulin, should we eventually look for those being presented? Is that...
Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions. And your first question comes from the line of Kevin Jason [ph]. Kevin Jason I guess that will be me, thanks a lot, guys. Jonathan Lim Thank you Kevin Jason Congratulations, nice quarter. Couple of things there, let’s talk about Baxter...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| David A. Ramsay | Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
| Gregory I. Frost | Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer and Director |
| Robert Little | Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer |
| Mark Wilson | Vice President of Business Development |
| Louis H. Bookbinder | Director of Biochemistry |
| Edward L. Mercaldo | Director |
| Robert L. Engler | Director |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Ken Kelley | Board Member |
David A. Ramsay, MBA (39), Vice President & Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Ramsay joined Halozyme in 2003 and brings 17 years of corporate financial experience spanning several industries. From 2000 to 2003, he was Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Lathian Systems, a leading provider of technology-based sales solutions for the life sciences industry. Prior to Lathian, Mr. Ramsay was the Vice President, Treasurer of ICN Pharmaceuticals, a multinational, specialty pharmaceutical company with approximately $800 million in revenue and a market capitalization of $3 billion at the time. Mr. Ramsay joined ICN in 1998 from ARCO, where he spent four years in various financial roles, most recently serving as Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis for the company s 1,7 00-station West Coast Retail Marketing Network. Prior to ARCO, he served as Vice President, Controller for Security Pacific Asian Bank, a $500 million subsidiary of Security Pacific Corporation. He began his career as a Senior Auditor (CPA) at Deloitte & Touche after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with a BS degree in Business Administration. Mr. Ramsay earned his MBA degree with a dual major in Finance and Strategic Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. | Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | Current |
| Hyalozyme | Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | Current |
| Lathian Systems, Inc. | Vice President, Chief Financial Officer | Former |
| ICN Pharmaceuticals | Vice President, Treasurer | Former |
| University of California, Berkeley | Senior Auditor | Former |
| Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania | MBA Degree | Former |
| University of California, Berkeley | BS Degree In Business Administration | Former |
| University of California, Berkeley | Business Administration | Former |
Gregory I. Frost, PhD (32), Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer and Director. Dr. Frost joined Halozyme in 1999 and has spent more than ten years researching the hyaluronidase family of enzymes. From 1998 to 1999, he was a Senior Research Scientist at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC), where he focused much of his work developing the hyaluronidase technology. Prior to SKCC, his research in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, San Francisco, led directly to the purification, cloning, and characterization of the human hyaluronidase gene family, and the discovery of several metabolic disorders. He has authored over 13 scientific peer-reviewed and invited articles in the Hyaluronidase field and is an inventor on numerous patents. Frost s prior experience includes serving as a scientific consultant to a number of biopharmaceutical companies, including Q-Med (SE), Biophausia AB (SE), and Active Biotech (SE). Dr. Frost is registered to practice before the US Patent Trademark Office, and earned his BA in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his PhD in the department of Pathology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he was an ARCS-Scholar.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. | Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer and Director | Current |
| Hyalozyme | Halozyme's Vice President and Chief Scientific Off | Current |
| Hyalozyme | Board of Directors | Current |
| Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center | Senior Research Scientist | Former |
| QMed, Inc. | Scientific Consultant | Former |
| Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. | Director | Former |
| University of California, San Francisco | Ph.D. | Former |
| University of California Santa Cruz | BA In Biochemistry | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Operations | Current |
| Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. | Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer | Current |
| Pharmacia Corporation | President and Managing Director | Former |
| Pharmacia & Upjohn | President | Former |
| Pfizer Inc. | Former | |
| London Business School | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hyalozyme | Vice President of Business Development | Current |
| Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. | Vice President of Business Development | Current |
| August Capital | Administrative partner | Current |
| Private-Practice.Com | Lawyer | Current |
| TRW, Inc. | Current | |
| Ferro Corporation | Current | |
| Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Director of Materials | Former |
| Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Materials Manager | Former |
| System Industries | general counsel | Former |
| Pfizer Inc. | Former | |
| Hybritech | Former | |
| Anderson School of Management | Mba Degree | Former |
| University of California, Berkeley | Bs Degree In Engineering | Former |
| Stanford University | J D | Former |
Louis H. Bookbinder, PhD (46), Director of Biochemistry. Dr. Bookbinder joined Halozyme in 2002. Dr. Bookbinder has extensive experience in the biotechnology industry, serving as a Consulting Research Scientist to a number of companies, including Molecular Diagnostic Solutions-USA (San Diego, CA), Zygam, Inc. (Vista, CA), Mycoferm Technologies (Bellevue, WA), and Syrrx, Inc. (San Diego, CA), from 2001 to 2002. From 1995 to 2001, he was a Principal Investigator and Senior Staff Scientist at Tera Biotechnology Corporation (San Diego, CA) and Favrille, Inc. (San Diego, CA), a VC funded spin-off of Tera Biotechnology. Dr. Bookbinder s scientific background includes Senior Research Scientist at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center; Research Scientist at the La Jolla Institute for Ex perimental Medicine; Research Fellow at the Scripps Research Institute; and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Washington. He has authored multiple scientific peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as Science, Journal of Cellular Biology, and FASEB, and is a named inventor on numerous patents. Dr. Bookbinder earned his BA in biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, his MS in zoology at the University of Maine, Orono, and his PhD in biology at the University of California, San Diego.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. | Director of Biochemistry | Current |
| Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center | Senior Research Scientist | Current |
| The Scripps Research Institute | Fellow | Current |
| University of California, San Diego | PhD In Biology | Former |
| University of Maine | Ms In Zoology | Former |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Ba In Biology | Former |
| University of Washington | Former |
Edward L. Mercaldo (62), Director. Mr. Mercaldo is a Financial Consultant and private investor, following his successful career as an International Commercial and Investment Banker for several leading companies including Bank of Montreal, Bankers Trust Company of New York, Gordon Capital and First Marathon Securities. Mr. Mercaldo also served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Diamond Fields Resources, Inc., and following the purchase of Diamond Fields by Inco Ltd. in August 1996, he continued as a Director of Inco until September 2000. Mr. Mercaldo has served as a self-employed consultant to numerous companies for the past five years.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bankers Trust Company Inc. | Investment Banker | Current |
| Bank of Montreal | Investment Banker | Current |
| Quest Capital Corp. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Diamond Fields International Ltd. | Former | |
| Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. | Former | |
| Quest Capital Corp. | Board of Directors | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Svod | Current | |
| Fluxion Biosciences Inc | Executive Chairman | Current |
| Numerate, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Hyalozyme | Board of Directors | Current |
| Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| Life Science Angels, Inc. | Board of Director | Current |
| Mpex Pharmaceuticals | Board Member | Current |
| Ardea Biosciences, Inc.De | CEO | Former |
| Ardea Biosciences, Inc.De | Founder | Former |
| Latterell Venture Partners | General Partner | Former |
| McKinsey & Company, Inc. | Consultant | Former |
| Institutional Venture Partners | Associate | Former |
| Ardea Biosciences, Inc.De | Chairman | Former |
| Stanford University | M.B.A. | Former |
| Harvard University | B.A. In Biochemical Sciences | Former |
Dr. Engler was co-founder of Collateral Therapeutics and served as a Director from 1995 to 2000 and as Vice President -- Medical Director from 1995 through 1998. Currently, Dr. Engler is Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He was Professor of Medicine at UCSD, Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development at the Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, and a faculty member of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering at UCSD. He served as director of Coronary Care at the VA Hospital and was a clinical cardiologist until 2001 when he retired from UCSD and the VA Hospital to continue his work in the development of innovative agents for cardiovascular therapy. From 1985 to 1997, Dr. Engler was a Scientific Advisor to Gensia. Dr. Engler is a director of Halozyme Therapeutics, a publicly-traded biotechnology company. He received a B.A. in Physics from the University of North Carolina and his medical degree from Georgetown University.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cardium Therapeutics, Inc | Chief Medical Advisor | Current |
| Tissue Repair Company | Chief Medical Advisor | Current |
| Collateral Therapeutics, Inc. | Co-Founder | Current |
| Lpath, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Pericor Therapeutics, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Cardium Therapeutics, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Coda Genomics | Board of Directors | Current |
| Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Cardium Therapeutics, Inc | Vice President | Former |
| Tissue Repair Company | Vice President | Former |
| Gensia, Inc. | Founder | Former |
| University of California, San Diego | Professor of Medicine | Current |
| Georgetown University | Degree | Former |
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