Mr. Waddill began his career 30 years ago in commercial banking and public accounting and has been in the biotechnology industry for more than 25 years. Currently he sits on the boards of Protagonist Therapeutics and Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Waddill was Senior Vice President, CFO of Calithera Bioscience from 2014 to 2016 and, as CFO, completed its initial public offering (IPO) in October 2014. Prior to Calithera, Mr. Waddill was Senior Vice President, CFO, at OncoMed Pharmaceuticals from 2007 to 2014, where he was responsible for all corporate financial matters, most notably their IPO in 2013, as well as being the finance lead on three major collaborations. Prior to OncoMed, Mr. Waddill was Senior Vice President, CFO, at Ilypsa, where he was the finance lead for the company’s acquisition by Amgen in 2007. Before joining Ilypsa, he was the founder and principal at Square One Finance, a life science consulting business. In addition to being on the boards of Protagonist and Arrowhead, Mr. Waddil is an emeritus board member of the Association of Bioscience Financial Officers (ABFO), where he was Chairman in 2016 as well as co-chair of the ABFO 2014 National Conference. Formerly he served as Chairman of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) BIO Business Solutions Advisory Board as well as the Finance and Tax Committee. Mr. Waddil has testified in Washington D.C. on behalf of the biotech industry in front of the Senate Finance Committee and Congressional Capital Markets Subcommittee. He received a BS in accounting from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and certification as a public accountant (inactive) after working at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte in Boston.