Patheon Announces Appointment of Michael E. Lytton as Executive Vice President, Corporate Developement and Strategy, and General Counsel

Toronto (PRWEB) May 11, 2011

Patheon (TSX: PTI) announced today the appointment of Michael E. Lytton as Patheons Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy and General Counsel, effective immediately. Mr. Lytton was most recently with Biogen Idec, Inc., where he held the position of Executive Vice President, Corporate and Business Development reporting to Jim Mullen, previously Chief Executive Officer of Biogen Idec and now Patheons Chief Executive Officer.

In commenting on the appointment, Mr. Mullen said, I am so pleased that Michael has agreed to join us. He is an accomplished leader, strategist and negotiator who will bring a deep and broad understanding of the industry and proven skills to help Patheon reach its full potential. I expect that Michael will assist us in building strategic alliances with our pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers as well as emerging companies and their investors, and that he will enable us to add a range of proprietary capabilities and technologies to better serve our customers.

Mr. Lyttons 28-year career includes extensive experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Most recently, Mr. Lytton supported Biogen Idecs growth by leading its corporate development team that refined and executed its corporate partnership strategy, including the in-licensing of several late-stage molecules. Prior to joining Biogen Idec, Mr. Lytton was a General Partner with Oxford Bioscience Partners, a venture capital firm investing in therapeutic, diagnostic, and life science tool companies. Prior to Oxford, Mr. Lytton practiced law for 17 years and specialized in representing biomedical companies; he is a past Partner and member of the Executive Committee of the law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge and previously was a Partner of the law firm Wilmer Hale.

Mr. Lytton is currently Chairman of the Board of Santhera Pharmaceuticals AG and he has also served on various boards of many other academic, non-profit and private and public for-profit companies throughout his career.

Mr. Lytton holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the University of London, U.K. where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

ABOUT PATHEON

Patheon is a leading global provider of contract development and manufacturing services to the global pharmaceutical industry. It provides the highest quality products and services to approximately 300 of the worlds leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Patheons services range from preclinical development through commercial manufacturing of a full array of dosage forms including parenteral, solid, semisolid and liquid forms. The company uses many innovative technologies including singleuse disposables, liquidfilled hard capsules and a variety of modified release technologies. Its comprehensive range of fully integrated Pharmaceutical Development Services includes preformulation, formulation, analytical development, clinical manufacturing, scaleup and commercialization. Patheon can take customers direct to clinic with global clinical packaging and distribution services and Patheons Quick to Clinic programs can accelerate early phase development projects to clinical trials while minimizing the consumption of valuable API. Its integrated development and manufacturing network of 10 facilities, eight development centers and one clinical trial packaging facility, across North America and Europe, ensures that customer products can be launched ontime and with confidence anywhere in the world.

Patheon Contact:

Wendy Wilson

Investor Relations and Corporate Communications

Tel: (919) 226-3313

Email: wendy.wilson(at)patheon(dot)com

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Scheduling Reservations is Now Faster and Easier with Appointment Search

Miami, FL (PRWEB) July 1, 2010

Appointment Search.com, the online appointment scheduling application, popularly known as Your 24 Hour Receptionist, has added a new feature to its system that lets subscribers schedule services such as events, classes, groups, seminars, conferences, etc., This feature makes online appointment scheduling a breeze to fill a room or rent out equipment.

Subscribers can handle the ordering of 100 chairs at a party rental supply company or set it up to schedule 4 tee-times every 15 minutes for 4 individual players or allow a single player to reserve all 4 openings at once, thats how flexible it is and it is all up to the subscriber to specify business rules around each service.

This new function makes things a lot simple for our subscribers. Let's say you are conducting a seminar that can seat 30 people. With this program you can let your attendees book a single seat, multiple seats or even up to all 30 seats at once. Or as a tennis coach you could have two students every hour. Now you can spend more time with your customers instead of answering the never-ending phone calls. says Manuel Ormaza, the CEO of Appointment Search. This feature improves the flexibility of the scheduling and is a valuable time-saver for our subscribers.

Empowering clients to schedule their own appointments while always keeping in mind their individual needs has been a focused objective of Appointment Search all along. Now with advanced features like event scheduling, recurring appointments, scheduling from multiple office locations, Appointment Searchs online appointment scheduling software is fast proving to be an indispensable tool in office management. Thousands of service providers and other businesses rely on Appointment Searchs robust web-based application to manage and schedule appointments online.

The new feature became especially popular with event managers, seminar organizers, restaurants, party rental and equipment rental supply companies who have the same service available in quantities. It reduces clutter and simplifies the reservation process. With clients finding it easy to manage appointments online, phone calls bombarding the service providers have seen steep decline thus saving a lot of time to tend to other business objectives.

About Appointment Search

Appointment Search is an online appointment scheduling system that can be accessed by users setting appointments from anywhere and at anytime by simply using a web browser. By enabling clients to self-service their appointment needs, subscribers eliminate time-consuming phone calls and save a lot of time.

For more information, visit http://www.AppointmentSearch.com.

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