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BUSINESS examiner.com 17 NEW VENTURE Richard DeLateur Fluidigm's new CEO hits the ground running Former Intel executive Richard DeLateur is making the transition from semiconductors to biotech. Jason SteinbergSpecial to The Examiner By Natali T.Del Conte Staff Writer RICHARD DELATEUR Monday, March 20, 2006 NEW APPOINTMENTS SCSI trade group re-elects president The SCSI Trade Association, a member-run industry association established to support and promote SCSI technology, announced its new board of directors for 2006, including re-elected President Harry Mason of LSI Logic. New to the board are Don Jean-nette of Fujitsu and Susan Bob-holz of Intel. The remainder of tlie nine-person board was re-elected for another one-year term. REAL ESTATE Real estate firm Equis announced Greg Hylton as senior VP, managing director, and Cal Meeder as VP and senior project manager of the San Francisco office.

Newmark Knight Frank, a global real estate services firm, said Bill Benton, Mike Brown and Quentin Knights have been named principals in the San Francisco office. All three individuals were previously managing directors with the firm. Presidio Merchant Partners LLC, an independent wealth management and corporate finance firm, appointed Bracken White principal of the corporate finance unit and Michael Blackman managing director for the wealth management group. Zephyr Real Estate announced its 2005 top producers. Leading the company in overall sales is Bonnie Spindler.

Other top sales leaders are Richard Meyerson, Bill Kitchen and Robin Hubinsky. HEALTHCARE The Northern California Cancer Center hired Emma Lee Twitchell as development director and Desiree Aquino as communications manager. LAW Real estate litigation attorney Gerald Murphy has joined Luce Forward as a partner in the firm's San Francisco office. Murphy socializes in San Francisco planning code issues. a Sandler, Travis Rosenberg P.A.

appointed Zhaokang Jiang as a new member of the firm and partner in charge of Asian expansion. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pit-tinan LLP, an international law firm, announces Scott A. Sommer as a partner in the firm's San Francisco environment, land use and natural resources practice. He comes from the Walnut Creek office of Miller, Starr Regalia. Philip L.

Gregory, Nanci E. Ni-shimura and Laura E. Schlichtmann have been made partners at the Butiingame office of Cotchett, Pitre, Simon and McCarthy. Gregory is a specialist in intellectual property litigation. Nishimura practices civil litigation focusing on consumer and securities class actions and antitrust Schlichtmann focuses on consumer protection class actions and business disputes.

TECHNOLOGY Peerflix, an online peer-to-peer service that allows memliers to legally trade DVDs, announced Bar-naby Dorman and Paul Gutierrez as VT of product and director of operations, respectively. Staff Ri-portt PERSONAL Personal details: Born March 1958; hometown: Sunnyvale Sportshobbies: Sailing, motorcycles Transportation: Car Favorite restaurant Tadich Grill Computer: Whatever is at Costco Favorite clothier. See Computer Vacation spot: Oahu and Sun Valley Role model: Gordon Moore, chairman emeritus of the board, Intel Corp. (INTC) Reading: Yes, since about kindergarten Worst fear: Embarrassing myself in an article in The Examiner. Motivation: Not embarrassing myself in an article in The Wail Street Journal.

BUSINESS New job: Chief finance officer. Fluidigm Number of e-mails a day: 30 Number of voice mails a day: 10 Essential Web site: Don't trust Web sites Best perk: Peet's Coffee in volume Gadgets: Don't trust gadgets unless you count an electric toothbrush Educationcredentials: B.A. in economics, UC Davis; Chartered Financial Analyst Last conference: JP Morgan Heath Care First job: Either cutting apricots, cleaning apartments or shoveling rocks Original aspiration: Academia for every man there comes a time to quit his job and captain a ship around the world. "Basically from 2000 to 2004, 1 was sailing from San Francisco through the Panama Canal to the East Coast." DeLateur had guests at various points, but for the most part, he manned the vessel alone until one day, he had enough. "I actually got my fill of sailing," he said coolly.

"That's a lot of time on the ocean and it was just time to get back to work So the Sunnyvale native dex'ked back home in the Bay Area, brushed the dust off of his resume and found himself taking over the financial reigns at Topspin Communications, a server networking company that was acquired by Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) in 2005. These days DeLateur seems to be fully reacclimated to corporate living. In his new job, he is learning as much about biotechnology as possible while getting to know the 87 other people who work at the South San Francisco headquarters. "There is not much of a cafeteria here but there is candy everywhere," he said.

"I haven't figured out if that's good or bad yet." ndelconteqfxaminer.com Richard DeLateur mostly understands what his company does. "I might not be the best one to explain it, but I'm learning," says the new chief financial officer of Fluid-igm, a company that manufactures biotechnology fluids and glass. "I'm not a biologist I've sjient my career in semiconductors. I am learning about biology and chemistry but I'm in the process." Delteur joined Fluidigm in January. He was previously the CFO for Topspin Communications and before that he spent 20 years at Intel Corp.

(INTO. When he left Intel he was general manager of new business investments, responsible for corporate venturing. DeLateur said working with semiconductors at Intel prepared him to work with Fluidigm's technology. "A semiconductor uses a manufactured process, but the end result is basically electrical lines that carry electrons. This is very similar except it's an integrated conductor that carries fluids," DeLateur explained.

Fluidigm founders actually created the technology based on who would be a better fit." DeLateur has a four-year gap in his resumed After his 20 years at Intel, he decided it was time for a change of scenery So he resigned, purchased a sailboat and took to the wide-open sea. "It was just time to go sailing," DeLateur said nonchalantly, as if their semiconductor experience, so DeLateur is among peers in his new post. "Rich has the background in manufacturing, early stage companies and strategic alliances that will help push Fluidigm to a new level," said Gajus Worthington, Fluidigm's CEO. "I couldn't name another individual ON THEIR WAY UP NONPROFITS ENTERTAINMENT' COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE REAL ESTATE Airmedia Inc. said Jon Richmond, managing director at Houlihan Lokey Howard Wat-Ling Eng.

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