Primary Job Title Board member Primary Organization 
Immunex
Gender Male
Through activities supporting the University of Washington, Mr. Cable has developed an intimate involvement with the research community in the Northwest. He has more than 25 years of venture experience. Twenty of those years have been spent as a resident of Seattle and deeply involved in the development of the Northwest venture industry.
He is
currently chairman of the Washington Research Foundation (WRF), which he co-founded in 1981. WRF assists universities and other nonprofit research institutions in the state of Washington with commercialization of their technologies and provides support, through gifts and grants, for their scholarship and research. Mr. Cable also serves on the board of Omeros Corporation, as chairman of the advisory board of the Applied Physics Laboratory and as a member of the advancement board of Friday Harbor Laboratories.
He is past chairman of the University of Washington President's Club, co-founder and vice chairman of the Technology Alliance and a founder of the Alliance of Angels, organizations dedicated to successful technology development by Northwest-based entrepreneurs. Mr. Cable is a former U.S. Navy submarine officer, and received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business
