Giaconda’s Core Values

Giaconda will be a company whose culture will be driven by a series of core beliefs as summarized below.

• Compassion – as a company dedicated to finding therapies for illnesses that cause human suffering, we must be constantly mindful of who we are serving. That person will always be the patient first.

• Integrity – as a company whose vision is to become a world leader in developing therapies that will be marketed around the world, we cannot ever be compromised in our integrity. As a company in the pharmaceutical industry, we will always depend on integrity to maintain the confidence of the regulatory authorities we must deal with. Our very survival and the responsibilities we have to our shareholders depend on our ability to avoid even the smallest compromise to Giaconda’s integrity.

• A Sense of Urgency – “The patient is waiting!” The patients we serve are often in dire and immediate need of what we have to offer. In addition, today’s investment environment demands returns on investment must be faster than ever before. We will only be able to serve these two urgent needs if we constantly act with a sense of urgency in all that we do.

• Common Respect – Giaconda’s primary resource is its people. The only way the company can achieve anything is through its people. To keep these people we must demonstrate respect for them in all manner – in our attitudes towards them, in our compensation to them and our recognition of them. This respect is, however a two-way street and we will expect our people to respect one another no matter the position or the individual.

• Commitment – Our calling is a significant one; to serve both the patients who need our therapies and the investors who have confided their investment in our endeavor. In the face of one of the most complicated and regulated industries in the commercial world, we must maintain the highest possible commitment to achieve our goals. This commitment will be held both by and for the employees of Giaconda for they are the only functioning resources we have available to us.

• Innovation – Our business is a creative one where we encounter unique challenges in almost everything we do. We will only be able to meet these challenges if we constantly look for creative ways to overcome them. The “tried and true” most often won’t be and this will demand continuous creativity from all involved with Giaconda.

• Focus – Our scope can be great, but only focus will allow us to ensure that we achieve what is important. We must put priority on the things we can do and ensure that, in the scheme of ‘must do, should do and nice to do,’ we do the first, first and the last of these last if at all.