Mr.
Blomstrom has extensive working knowledge of the pharmaceutical and
biotechnology industries. He is currently President of the Pasadena
Bioscience Collaborative, an incubator for early stage life science
companies and a member of the Board of Directors of the Pasadena Angels,
investors in early stage companies. Mr. Blomstrom is also an advisor
to Infinite Biomedical Technologies, a medical device company and to
MedRule, an enterprise software firm servicing providers and medical
groups. He was the first Chairman of Nanostream, a manufacturer of microfluidic
drug discovery instruments and director of Chemokine, a biotechnology
company developing chemokine and cytokine based drugs. Mr. Blomstrom
is also a Director of the Southern California Biomedical Council.
Previous
positions include: President NMC Homecare, a division of Fresenius Medical
Care; President and CEO CliniShare Inc., a division of UniHealth; President
and CEO Guardian Products, a division of Sunrise Medical Inc; Vice President
Whittaker Corp.; Senior Vice President of Alpha Therapeutics; several
executive positions at Abbott Laboratories including Director of Corporate
Planning, Executive Managing Director, Nippon Abbott Japan and General
Manager South Africa; Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and
Industry, Uganda, East Africa.
Mr.
Blomstrom is a Trustee of the Pacific Asia Museum , a Director of the
Pasadena Symphony, and a member of the Pacific Council on International
Affairs. He is also active in several MIT alumni organizations. He has
B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.