First chief financial officer at Genentech, 1978-1984 : oral history transcript / 2002 PDF
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UniversityofCalifornia Berkeley Regional Oral History Office University ofCalifornia The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California The Program in the History ofthe Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Fred A. Middleton FIRST CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERAT GENENTECH, 1978-1984 With an Introductionby Louis J. Lavigne, Jr. Interviews Conductedby Glenn E. Bugos, Ph.D. in 2001 . Copyright 2002byThe Regents oftheUniversityofCalifornia Since 1954theRegionalOralHistoryOfficehasbeeninterviewingleadingparticipantsinorwell-placed witnesses to major events in the development ofnorthern California, the West, and the nation. Oral history is a method ofcollecting historical information through tape-recorded interviews between a narratorwithfirsthandknowledgeofhistoricallysignificanteventsandawell-informedinterviewer,with the goal ofpreserving substantive additions to the historical record. The tape recordingis transcribed, lightly edited for continuity andclarity, andreviewedbythe interviewee. The corrected manuscript is indexed, bound withphotographs and illustrative materials, and placed in The BancroftLibrary atthe University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and in other research collections for scholarly use. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account, offeredby the interviewee in response to questioning, and as suchit is reflective, partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ************************************ All uses of this manuscript are covered by a legal agreement between The Regents ofthe University ofCaliforniaandFred A. Middleton datedJune 2002. The manuscript is thereby made available forresearch purposes. All literaryrights in the manuscript, including therightto publish, arereserved to The Bancroft Library ofthe University of California, Berkeley. No part of the manuscript may be quoted for publication withoutthe writtenpermission ofthe Director ofThe Bancroft Library of the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, 486 Bancroft Library, Mail Code 6000, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000, and should include identification of the specific passages to be quoted, anticipated use ofthe passages, and identification ofthe user. The legalagreementwithFredA. Middletonrequires thathebenotifiedoftherequest andallowedthirty days in which to respond. Itis recommendedthatthis oral historybe cited as follows: Fred A. Middleton, "First ChiefFinancial Officerat Genentech, 1978-1984" an oral history conducted in 2001 by Glenn E. Bugos forthe Regional Oral HistoryOffice, The BancroftLibrary, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, 2002. Copyno. Jj. Fred A. Middleton, 2001 Photograph courtesyofSanderling Ventures Cataloguinginformation Fred A. Middleton (b. 1949) Corporate executive/venture capitalist First ChiefFinancial Officerat Genentech, 1978-1984, 2002, viii, 267pp. Childhood in NewJersey; educationin chemistry, business; earlyemploymentexperiences inbusiness management, banking, and as financial and administrative officerforGenentech s firstmanagement team; early growth ofGenentech, Inc.; corporate financial strategies: raisingventure capital, product licensing, privateplacements,research and developmentpartnerships,jointventures, FIPCO [fully integratedpharmaceutical company] plan,juniorcommon stock; discussion ofGenentechproducts including insulin, growthhormone, gamma interferon, tissueplasminogen activator(tPA), enzymes; Genentech s initial public offering; comments onEugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Cornelius Pettinga, Robert Swanson, and others. Introductionby Louis J. Lavigne, Executive Vice-Presidentand ChiefFinancial Officer, Genentech, Inc. Interviewed in 2001 by GlennE. Bugos forthe Programin the Historyofthe Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Regional Oral History Office, The BancroftLibrary, Universityof California, Berkeley.
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