About Andrew Schwartz

King of the Biotech Hill

There’s a disarming lack of pretense about Paul DeStefano. When he arrives at Fish & Richardson’s Silicon Valley office, he’s dressed in a sweater vest and jeans, apologizes for being late (he isn’t) and then briefly describes an emergency with his dog that distressed his 8-year-old daughter and sent him scurrying to the vet. With his slightly unruly graying hair and beard, it’s not hard to picture a much younger DeStefano who, 30 years earlier, was enticed by a job interview …