Mr. Albini joins Sutro from Itero Biopharmaceuticals, a company focusing on the development and commercialization of protein therapeutics, where he was chief financial officer. Prior to joining Itero, he was chief financial officer at Novacea, where he was responsible for oversight and management of all financial activities, including debt and equity financings, strategic financial evaluation, financial planning and investor relations. Earlier, Mr. Albini was the chief financial officer of Lynx Therapeutics, where he led equity and debt offerings and negotiated revenue-bearing agreements for the company. He worked for more than 14 years in various financial management positions at Genentech, including director of finance for international operations and director of financial planning and analysis. Mr. Albini holds a master’s in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Santa Clara University. He is a certified public accountant.

Dr. Bender has an established track record of global and regional collaborations as well as mergers and acquisitions in the life sciences industry. Most recently, he was vice president, corporate development, of Allos Therapeutics, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions as well as financing transactions, product in-and out-licensing as well as corporate and strategic planning. While at the company, he established a collaboration with Mundipharma for the co-development and commercialization of Folotyn® outside the United States and Canada. In addition, he played a leadership role in the acquisition of the firm by Spectrum Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining Allos Therapeutics, he was a project leader at The Boston Consulting Group. Dr. Bender received a doctorate in microbiology and immunology from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a master's degree in business administration from MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford University.

Dr. Hallam brings more than 25 years of experience in drug discovery and development to Sutro. Most recently, he was executive vice president of research & development and executive officer at Palatin Technologies where he was responsible for discovery and clinical development and led the development of several INDs for drug candidates in a variety of therapeutic areas. Prior to joining Sutro, Dr. Hallam held several senior management positions at AstraZeneca, most recently vice president, biologics (respiratory and inflammatory diseases), vice president, U.S. medical affairs, and vice president, preclinical research and development, respiratory and inflammation, Sweden. He began his pharmaceutical career at Smith Kline & French Research, U.K., followed by senior management positions at Glaxo Group Research, U.K., Roche Research Centre, U.K., and Rhone Poulenc Rorer, U.S. Dr. Hallam conducted his post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Timothy J. Rink, M.D., Sc.D., at the Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge after receiving his Ph.D. in biochemistry from King's College, University of London.

Mr. Heinsohn has over 24 years of process development and manufacturing experience related to recombinant protein production. He came to Sutro after working at Genentech for 17 years, where he held the role of Senior Scientist and Senior Group Leader for process development, early stage purification activities. While at Genentech, he developed large-scale protein recovery processes, supported research and development activities and participated in regulatory filings for VEGF, thrombopoeitin, Lucentis, and other novel protein therapeutics. He was CMC team leader for the development and launch of Avastin. Prior to joining Genentech, Henry was employed by Genencor International where he was Senior Scientist. Previously, he was a scientist at Corning Medical and Scientific. Henry received a B.S. in Chemistry from North Carolina State University, and conducted postgraduate studies in Biochemistry at the Boston University.

Mr. Newell has over 10 years of senior management experience in the biotechnology industry. He joined Sutro Biopharma as CEO in January 2009. Previously, he served as the President of Aerovance, Inc., a venture-backed company developing clinical assets for respiratory diseases. Mr. Newell also was Chief Business Officer and Senior Vice President at publicly-traded QLT, Inc. and served in several senior management positions at public-traded Axys Pharmaceuticals, Inc, where he ultimately served as Senior Vice President, Corporate and Business Development prior to Celera Genomics’s acquisition of Axys. For the 15 years prior to joining Axys, Mr. Newell practiced law at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen LLP.

Dr. Sato has over 13 years of drug discovery and antibody engineering experience. Before Sutro, he was Sr. Director of Antibody Engineering at OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for all human antibody lead discovery and engineering. He served as project team leader on several key antibody projects through IND filing, one of which entered the clinic early last year (OMP-59R5). Before OncoMed, Dr. Sato was Sr. Director of Lead Discovery at Dyax Corp. and was responsible for antibody, peptide, and small protein discovery using their proprietary phage display technology. In this role, he also oversaw external alliances with major pharmaceutical, imaging, and biotechnology partners. He obtained his doctorate degree from MIT working in the lab of Dr. Lawrence J. Stern, where he studied MHC class II structure-function relationships.