Mr. Peter S. Lawrence, J.D. has been the President at ArQule Inc. since April 11, 2008. Mr. Lawrence has also been the Chief Operating Officer of ArQule, Inc. since October 4, 2007 and its Secretary and served as its General Counsel and Secretary since April 2006. He served as the Principal Financial Officer of ArQule, Inc. since August 31, 2007. He joined ArQule, Inc. since in April 2006 as an Executive Vice President, Chief Business Officer. Mr. Lawrence was a Special Partner at Pod Investment AB. He has expertise in private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings gained as an operating executive and corporate attorney. Mr. Lawrence's career includes many years of experience coaching and mentoring entrepreneurs, spanning the start-up and seed stages through growth to IPO's and trade sales. He was a Senior Partner at the Boston office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., from 1991 to 2001. At Mintz Levin, Mr. Lawrence served as an External Corporate Counsel to public and private companies, managed a transactional legal practice and provided strategic guidance to clients through periods of rapid growth and transformative corporate events. His public financing experiences include the initial public offering and numerous financings for America Online Inc., as well as public financings for Biogen, Human Genome Sciences, Hybridon and many other companies. Mr. Lawrence worked on numerous mergers and acquisitions including Roche and Compuchem, AOL or Time Warner, Compuserve or ICQ, Steinway Piano, DEC or Intel and Mitotix or GPC Biotech. In addition, he worked at Gaston & Snow from 1989 to 1991 in the firm's Corporate Law Department as an Attorney. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Mr. Lawrence serves as a Director at Corestreet, Ltd. and Peppercoin, Inc. and a Board Observer at Spherics, Inc. and Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mr. Lawrence was a Director at Pintex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia and is a member of the American, Massachusetts, District of Columbia and Boston Bar Associations. Mr. Lawrence received a B.A., cum laude, from Amherst College in 1981 and a J.D. from the Boston University School of Law in 1989.