William L. Hunter

Biography

  William L. Hunter, M.D., serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Cardiome Pharma Corp. Dr. Hunter has been a member of Cardiome's Board of Directors since 2007 and became the Company's President and CEO in July 2012. Prior to Cardiome, Dr. Hunter co-founded Angiotech in 1992 and assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer in 1997 when Angiotech was a venture-stage, private, pre-clinical company with less than 50 employees. He led Angiotech through three rounds of private equity financing, the Company’s IPO and listing on the TSX and the NASDAQ, over $1 billion in equity and debt financings, a debt restructuring and eight separate corporate acquisitions. During that time, Angiotech grew to become a profitable, diversified, healthcare company with over 1,400 employees, several thousand commercially available products, 12 facilities in five countries and worldwide annual revenues exceeding $250 million. Dr. Hunter has over 200 patents and patent applications to his name and products in which he was an inventor or co-inventor include the TAXUS® Drug-Eluting Coronary Stent, the Zilver PTX Peripheral Drug-Eluting Stent, the Quill barbed wound closure device and the 5-FU Anti-Infective Catheter; combined these products have been used in over 6 million patients and recorded revenues of over $12 billion worldwide. Dr. Hunter currently serves as a director of Epirus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: EPRS) and Rex Bionics Plc, and selected awards he has received include the 2006 Principal Award from the Manning Foundation (one of Canada’s highest awards for innovation); BC Innovation Council’s Cecil Green Award for Science and Technology Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneur of the Year from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association; and Canada’s 40 Under 40. Dr. Hunter served as a practicing physician in British Columbia for five years.

Research Interest

 business and administration science and technology