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| Michael A. Mussallem |
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Age 56. Mr. Mussallem has been chairman of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 2000. Prior to 2000, he held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility in engineering, product development and senior management at Baxter International Inc. Mr. Mussallem received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and was conferred an honorary doctorate by his alma mater in 1999. Mr. Mussallem is a director, and former chairman, of the California Healthcare Institute, a director of the OCTANe Foundation for Innovation and chairman of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed).
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| John T. Cardis |
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Age 67. Mr. Cardis has been a director of the Company since 2004. Mr. Cardis, a partner of Deloitte & Touche until his retirement in 2004, served at Deloitte & Touche for 40 years in positions of increasing responsibility, including as National Managing Partner-Global Strategic Clients, as a member of its executive committee and as a member of its board of directors. He also is a director of Avery Dennison Corporation. Mr. Cardis remains actively involved in a number of non-profit and community organizations.
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| William J. Link, Ph.D. |
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Age 62. Dr. Link is managing Director and a co-founder of Versant Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage health care companies. Prior to co-founding Versant Ventures in 1999, Dr. Link was a general partner at Brentwood Venture Capital. From 1986 to 1997, Dr. Link was founder, chairman and CEO of Chiron Vision, which was later sold to Bausch & Lomb, Inc. Dr. Link also founded and served as President of American Medical Optics which was acquired by Allergan, Inc. Dr. Link served as a director of Advanced Medical Optics, Inc., from 2002 to 2009. Before entering the health care industry, Dr. Link was an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Link earned his bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.
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| David E.I. Pyott |
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Age 55. Mr. Pyott has been a director of the Company since 2000. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Allergan, Inc., a global specialty pharmaceutical and medical device company since 2001, Allergan's Chief Executive Officer since 1998 and its President from 1998 through January 2006. Mr. Pyott is also a director of Avery Dennison Corporation. In addition, he serves on the Board and Executive Committee of the California Healthcare Institute, on the Board of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and on the Directors' Board of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California (Irvine).
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| Mike R. Bowlin |
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Age 65. Mr. Bowlin has been a director of the Company since 2000. He served as Chairman of the Board of Atlantic Richfield Company (which merged with BP Amoco in 2000) from 1995 until his retirement in 2000, as its President from 1993 to 1998 and as its Chief Executive Officer from 1994 to 2000. Mr. Bowlin also is a director of FMC Technologies, Inc., and the University of North Texas Foundation.
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| Robert A. Ingram |
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Age 66. Mr. Ingram has been a director of the Company since 2003. He has served as Vice Chairman, Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline plc, a corporation involved in the research, development, manufacturing and sale of pharmaceuticals, since 2002. Mr. Ingram served as the Chief Operating Officer and President of Pharmaceutical Operations, GlaxoSmithKline plc from 2001 through 2002. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Glaxo Wellcome plc from 1997 to 2000, and Chairman of Glaxo Wellcome Inc., Glaxo Wellcome plc's United States subsidiary, from 1999 through 2000. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Ingram served as Chairman and President of Glaxo Wellcome plc. Mr. Ingram is a director of Allergan Inc., Cree, Inc., Lowe's Companies, Inc., Valeant Pharmaceuticals International and the Chairman of OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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| Barbara J. McNeil, M.D., Ph.D. |
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Age 67. Dr. McNeil has been a director of the Company since 2006. Since 1990, she has served as the Ridley Watts Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. In addition, since 1988, Dr. McNeil has served as the Chair of the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Since 1983, she has been a Professor of Radiology at both Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. McNeil is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (where she is Chair of its Board of Healthcare Services) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She chairs the Medicare Evidence Development and Advisory Committee and is a member of the Blue Cross Medical Advisory Panel. Dr. McNeil holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in biological chemistry from Harvard University.
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