• David P. Perry
  Chief Executive Officer
• Karl R. Beutner, M.D., Ph.D.
  Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
• Christine E. Gray-Smith
  Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
• Kirk R. Maples, Ph.D.
  Senior Vice President, Program Management
• Jacob J. Plattner, Ph.D.
  Senior Vice President, Research
• Irwin A. Heyman, Ph.D.
  Senior Vice President, Product Development
• Kurt R. Jarnagin, Ph.D.
  Vice President, Biological Research
• James R. Marconi
  Vice President, Finance and Controller
• Lee T. Zane, M.D.
  Vice President, Clinical Development

Jacob J. Plattner, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Research

Jacob J. Plattner, Ph.D., has served as Anacor's Senior Vice President, Research since February 2004. From 1998 to 2004, Dr. Plattner was Vice President of Small Molecule Discovery Research at Chiron, a biopharmaceutical company. Prior to joining Chiron, Dr. Plattner held managerial and research positions in chemistry and pharmaceutical research with Abbott Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company, from 1977 to 1998. Dr. Plattner received a B.S. from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.