google mary c tanner alteon director owns 6 million shares= $$$ bear stearns bigshot with own firm> Mary C. Tanner
Mary Tanner has served as a Director of Alteon since July 2006. Ms. Tanner is a Principal and founder of Life Sciences Partners, a healthcare advisory and investment firm. Previously, she was Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns & Co., and Senior Managing Director and head of the Life Sciences practice at Lehman Brothers, Inc. During her 25 year career on Wall Street, Ms. Tanner has worked on or supervised over 550 transactions with a total value of over $175 billion, including ten large pharmaceutical mergers. Ms. Tanner received her B.A. from Harvard University.