Mary C Tanner, 56, has been a Member of the Supervisory Board of Evotec AG since January 2005. She has devoted 22 years to the health care and consumer products industry, as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both global investment banks. In 2004 Ms. Tanner founded Life Sciences Partners, which specialises in healthcare investment and advisory work, following her retirement from Bear Stearns in the same year. During her 22 years at Bear Stearns and Lehman, Ms. Tanner led or supervised over 575 transactions, including 220 mergers, acquisitions and divestitures with a total disclosed value of $250+ billion. Ms. Tanner also developed a specialisation in the biotechnology industry as it emerged over the last 20 years. Ms. Tanner received her university degree from Harvard in 1973 in philosophy and related fields.