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California Treasurer Bill Lockyer and Gov. Jerry Brown today nominated Jonathan Thomas to succeed Robert Klein as chairman of the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee -- the governing board -- of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the state's $3-billion stem cell research funding agency.
As the job is defined at the moment, the chairman of the ICOC heads up the board and participates in the day-to-day operations of the agency.
Thomas is a founding partner in the bond investment group Saybrook Capital in Santa Monica. Lockyer's nomination letter said that Thomas' "experience as a public finance investment banker, attorney, board member of various government agencies, and board member of the Crippled Children's Society of Southern California, as well as his lifelong background, education and interest in biology and medical sciences, makes him exceptionally well-suited to fill the role of ICOC Chair and to lead ICOC into the next stages of its ongoing pursuit of cures through stem cell research." The California Stem Cell Report blog reported earlier this week that he was thought to be Klein's choice for...
As the job is defined at the moment, the chairman of the ICOC heads up the board and participates in the day-to-day operations of the agency.
Thomas is a founding partner in the bond investment group Saybrook Capital in Santa Monica. Lockyer's nomination letter said that Thomas' "experience as a public finance investment banker, attorney, board member of various government agencies, and board member of the Crippled Children's Society of Southern California, as well as his lifelong background, education and interest in biology and medical sciences, makes him exceptionally well-suited to fill the role of ICOC Chair and to lead ICOC into the next stages of its ongoing pursuit of cures through stem cell research." The California Stem Cell Report blog reported earlier this week that he was thought to be Klein's choice for...