A senior executive with more than two decades of experience in the healthcare and life science sectors, Mr. Bjerkholt is Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., having joined Sunesis in 2004 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. From 2002 to 2004, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly-held biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Bjerkholt was a co-founder of LifeSpring Nutrition, Inc., a privately-held nutraceutical company, and from 1999 to 2002 served at various times as its Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chief Financial Officer. He also served as vice president in the healthcare banking group at J.P. Morgan & Co. from 1990 to 1997. Mr. Bjerkholt is a member of the Board of Directors of StemCells, Inc., a publicly-held biotechnology company, and Ambrx Inc., a privately-held biopharmaceutical company. He holds a Cand. Oecon degree in Economics from the University of Oslo and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.