Gender Male
John P. Walker, has spent his career in Healthcare. He started at American Hospital Supply Corporation, where he eventually became President of the Hospital Company, the largest operating unit of the Corporation. He then moved to the Bay Area, where over the last 30 years, he’s been Chairman, Executive Chairman or CEO of a number of companies
including Vitaphore Corporation (sold to Union Carbide), Arris (AXYS) Pharmaceuticals (sold to Celera), Kai Pharmaceuticals (sold to Amgen), Guava Technologies (sold to Millipore Corporation), Signal Pharmaceuticals, (sold to Celgene), Novacea Corporation (merged with Transcept) and iPierian Corporation (sold to BMS). Most recently, John was a founder and Managing Director of Four Oaks Partners, a business advisory firm. He currently serves on the BOD of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Packard Children’s Health Alliance, and Random Acts of Flowers, a non-profit that repurposes flowers for delivery to patients at hospitals and long term care facilities.
