2008 ARFAC Board Members
W. Scott Harkonen, M.D. – Over the past 25 years, Dr. Harkonen has been the senior executive/Chief Executive Office responsible for the start-up and successful establishment (including three IPOs) of several respected biotech companies, including Connetics, InterMune, CoTherix, and now CoMentis. Dr. Harkonen provided the initial vision, leadership and vital seed money to transform ARFAC from a worthy idea into a beneficial reality. Dr. Harkonen received his M.D. from University of Minnesota, and did his Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF. He subsequently completed a M.B.A. from U.C. Berkeley.
Maggy Howe Executive DirectorMs. Howe is president of her own executive events management business, MHowe. She has been involved in strategic, and cause marketing, as well as corporate event management for 20 years and currently serves as a board member and is the Director of ARFAC. MHowe specializes in matching non profits with for profits companies enhancing public relations strategies- i.e. branding fundraising efforts, galas, and establishing philanthropic giving programs. In addition to ARFAC, Ms. Howe’s clients include O’Reilly Media, Microsoft, The National Endowment for the Arts, and Sutter Health Care Systems. Ms. Howe received her B.A. from Eckerd College, St Petersburg, FL.
Remsen Kinne, IV, J.D. – A corporate transactional lawyer with substantial experience in the representation of both public and private companies in the structuring, negotiating and documenting of cross-border and domestic transactions, Mr. Kinne has counseled companies and individuals in the United States, China, the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf areas. In addition, Mr. Kinne has represented clients in a wide range of sectors and activities, including life sciences, information and communications technology, financial services, global sourcing, supply chain, and corporate governance.
Adrienne Mally - With more than 20 years
experience in investment banking, Ms. Mally spent most of her career with
Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Sutro & Co., where she served on the Board of
Directors. In the non-profit sector, she has served on the boards of the
American Red Cross, California League for the Handicapped (now Lighthouse
for the Blind), and The Management Center. Ms. Mally completed her
undergraduate work at Dartmouth College and received her M.B.A. from
Columbia University.
Dr. Michael W. Weiner -Dr Weiner, attended Johns Hopkins U and the State University of New York, and worked at Mt Sinai Hospital in NY, Yale U ,Univeristy of Wisconsin (VA Research Associate, and Clinical Investigatorship) and Stanford U (Young Investigator Award of the American College of Cardiology) In 1980, he performed the first experiment using implanted coils to obtain 31 NMR spectra from the kidney of living rats. Since1980 he has been at the San Francisco VA/ UCSF.He is is currently, Director of the Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease, a 10,000 sq foot building with two research MRIS Professor of Radiology, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Neurology. He has published over 400 papers. His grants include studies of Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, gulf war illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, HIV, and other neurodegenerative diseases. He is the Principle Investigator of the NIA funded $60 millionAlzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Dr Weiner was recently awarded the Middleton Award, for outstanding research in the VA.
