ARNIE FRIEDE is Principal of Arnold I. Friede & AssociatesArnie has had a distinguished career of highly responsible, diverse and complex positions across an array of substantive legal areas and business operations. He is a widely respected food and drug law counselor and advocate who for almost 40 years has been involved in a broad range of Food and Drug Administration and other agency-regulated businesses. These include the life sciences, such as pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical devices, medical information and disease management, as well as the food, cosmetic, chemical and other industries. He also has significant advertising law, health care law, First Amendment, environmental, and commercial and transactional experience.Arnie runs his own consulting firm specializing in FDA-related legal and regulatory matters, including testimony as an expert witness. Earlier in his career he served as associate chief counsel in the FDA’s Chief Counsel’s Office, representing the agency in a wide array of significant judicial and administrative proceedings while also serving as counsel to the then-Bureau of Radiological Health, now part of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. He has held a number of senior in-house legal positions with major corporations in FDA-regulated industries and has served as adjunct professor of food and drug law at the University of Miami (FL) School of Law.Mr. Friede is admitted to practice in California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia and Maryland. He received his B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh and his J.D. from the George Washington University School of Law.