KIMBLE L. JENKINS
Mr. Jenkins joined our Board of Directors in September 2002 and presently serves as our Chairman. Mr. Jenkins has served as our President since January 2003, and he has also served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2004. Mr. Jenkins served in those offices on a part-time basis until May 2008, at which time Mr. Jenkins began serving as our President and Chief Executive Officer on a full-time basis. Prior to May 2008, Mr. Jenkins was also a Managing Director with the investment bank Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., where he founded that firm's Private Equity Group in 1998. Mr. Jenkins has over 20 years of experience building and working with growth stage companies. Mr. Jenkins holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center.
LENOX D. BAKER
Dr. Baker joined our Board of Directors in December 1998. He is Past-Chairman of the board of trustees for Johns Hopkins Medicine and Past Vice-Chairman of the board of trustees for Johns Hopkins. He currently serves on the executive committee and board of trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine, as well as serving on the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins. Since 1979, Dr. Baker has practiced cardiothoracic surgery with Mid-Atlantic Cardiothoracic Surgeons and has served as its President since 2002. Since 1982, Dr. Baker has served as Chief of the Division of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. In 1975, Dr. Baker founded Impra Inc., a manufacturer of prosthetic arterial grafts, and he served as its Chairman of the Board until Bard Cardiology acquired the company in 1996. Dr. Baker has served as the principal investigator in numerous studies and has written and published multiple articles in the field of cardiothoracic surgery. Dr. Baker also serves as a member of the board of directors of WellPoint, Inc., a publicly traded health benefits company.
PAUL A. BOTTOMLEY
Dr. Bottomley is a SurgiVision founder and has been a member of our Board of Directors since December 1998. Dr. Bottomley joined Johns Hopkins in 1994. Since 1997, Dr. Bottomley has served as the Director of the Division of MR Research in the Department of Radiology at Johns Hopkins. Previously, Dr. Bottomley worked at General Electric Company's Research and Development Center from 1980-1994 where he played a key role in the development of their MRI clinical product and was awarded the Center's highest honor, its Coolidge Medal and Fellowship, for these developments in 1990. He was awarded the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine's Gold Medal for his contributions to MRI in 1989. He holds 34 U.S. patents and has written more than 150 scientific journal publications. Dr. Bottomley also serves as a consultant to us.
CHARLES E. KOOB
Mr. Koob joined our Board of Directors in August 2008. From 1970 to 2008, Mr. Koob practiced competition, trade regulation and antitrust law at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and served as the co-head of the firm's litigation department for a portion of his tenure. For much of his career, Mr. Koob served as a strategic advisor for the boards of directors of many public companies. Mr. Koob also serves on the board of directors of MiMedx Group, Inc., a publicly traded biomedical products company.
JAMES K. MALERNEE, JR.
Dr. Malernee joined our Board of Directors in March 2010. Dr. Malernee is a cofounder of Cornerstone Research, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in analytical support to attorneys in all phases of commercial litigation and regulatory proceedings, and he currently serves as Chairman and Managing Director of that firm. Over the last twenty years with Cornerstone Research, he has directed research on complex business issues related to a wide variety of cases. In recent years, Dr. Malernee has specialized in securities matters, supervising hundreds of cases dealing with material disclosure, loss causation, insider trading, mergers and acquisitions, targeted repurchases, minority buyouts, stock trading behavior, valuation and class certification. Dr. Malernee has served as a board member and consultant to major corporations, and he has taught finance at the University of Texas at Austin and business strategy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
WENDELIN D. MANERS
Ms. Maners joined our Board of Directors in August 2008. Ms. Maners has been employed by Boston Scientific since 1997 and currently is the Vice President, Strategy and Business Development. She is responsible for transaction and licensing activities for Boston Scientific's neuromodulation, electrophysiology and undeveloped markets. Prior to joining Boston Scientific, Ms. Maners was Head of Healthcare Investment Banking at Barrington Associates, a merger & acquisition advisory firm in Los Angeles.
MICHAEL A. PIETRANGELO
Mr. Pietrangelo joined our Board of Directors in March 2010. From 1972 through 1989, Mr. Pietrangelo was employed by Schering-Plough Corporation in various capacities including President of the Personal Care Products Group. From 1989 to 1990, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Western Publishing Company. From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Pietrangelo was the President and Chief Executive Officer of CLEO, Inc., a subsidiary of Gibson Greetings, Inc. From 1994 until 1998, he served as President of Johnson Products Company, a subsidiary of IVAX Corporation. Since 1998, Mr. Pietrangelo has practiced law at Pietrangelo Cook PLC. Mr. Pietrangelo is also a director of Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, serving on the executive committee (Chair), compliance committee (Chair), and nominating and governance committee. Mr. Pietrangelo also serves on the board of directors of the American Parkinson Disease Association, a not-for-profit organization focused on serving the Parkinson's community, and Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded insurance holding company. Mr. Pietrangelo currently serves as the managing partner of Theraplex Company LLC, a privately held company.
JOHN N. SPENCER, JR.
Mr. Spencer joined our Board of Directors in March 2010. Mr. Spencer is a certified public accountant and was a partner of Ernst & Young LLP where he spent more than 38 years until his retirement in 2000. During a portion of his time at Ernst & Young, he served as the partner in charge of the firm's life sciences practice for the Southeastern United States, which included a large number of publicy owned and privately held medical technology companies. Mr. Spencer serves on the board of directors of GeoVax Labs, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company, and until April 2009, served on the board of directors of Firstwave Technologies, Inc., formerly a publicly traded customer relationship management software company. In addition, he serves as a consultant to various companies, primarily relating to financial accounting and reporting matters.
JOHN C. THOMAS, JR.
Mr. Thomas joined our Board of Directors in April 2004. From 1998 until April 2010, Mr. Thomas served as our Chief Financial Officer on a part-time basis. Mr. Thomas also serves as a part-time chief financial officer and secretary for CorMatrix Cardiovascular, Inc. (2001 to present), a privately held medical device company, and Motion Reality, Inc. (2001 to present), a privately held motion capture and simulation company. Previously, Mr. Thomas served as a chief financial officer and secretary for the following companies: MiMedx Group, Inc. (2006 to 2009), a publicly traded biomedical products company; iVideotunes, Inc. (2005 to 2008) a privately held music company; and DARA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2002 to 2008). Mr. Thomas is a certified public accountant, and was formerly an auditor with Arthur Andersen & Company.