Primary Job Title Senior Financial Advisor, Treasurer & Board of Directors Primary Organization PluroGen Therapeutics
Location Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Regions East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
Mr. Farinholt has had an extensive career in both the private and public sectors of finance and investment. Since 1992, he has been engaged in business development at Virginia Commonwealth University as Special Assistant for Economic Development to the President.
During his promotion of commercialization of scientific discoveries at the
University, he co-founded Allos Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALTH) a pharmaceutical start-up, which went public in March 2000. In 1994 and 1995, Mr. Farinholt was Interim Director of Technology Transfer at VCU and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Intellectual Properties Foundation of which he was a founding member. From 1996 through 1998, he was Executive Director of the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park Authority where he oversaw the development of the initial 257,000 square feet of office and laboratory facilities.
Prior to joining VCU, Mr. Farinholt had thirty years of experience in investment banking for small and medium-sized businesses as an executive officer at The Chase Bank in New York, in Wheat First Union and Galleher & Company in Richmond, Virginia. He is a partner at Whetstone Partners, LLC and Tall Oaks Capital.
Among Mr. Farinholt’s directorships are: PharmaNetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PHAR), BioCache Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately owned bio-tech start-up and Owens & Minor, Inc. (NYSE: OMI), the nation’s leading distributor of name-brand medical/surgical supplies, with annual revenues in excess of $4 billion, where he is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Executive and Strategic Planning Committees.
