Randall Caudill

Caudill is a native of Harlan, Iowa, where his father was a well known and respected dentist. After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts, Caudill attended Worcester College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar and received a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in 1975.^[2] His dissertation was titled "Some literary evidence of the development of English virtuoso interests in the seventeenth century, with particular reference to the literature of travel".^[3] He then returned to the United States and earned a master's degree in public and private management from Yale University.^[4]

Caudill serves on VaxGen board's Audit Committee and Compensation Committee and the Genentech Contract Committee. From 1987 to 1997, Caudill was employed by Prudential Securities, where he established and headed the firm's San Francisco investment banking practice. He also served as head of Prudential's Mergers and Acquisitions Department and co-head of the investment bank.

In 2012 he was appointed Director of PLM International Inc, An equipment leasing company based in San Francisco.^[5]