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Board of Directors

Fred Khosravi – Chairman of the Board
Fred Khosravi is a Silicon Valley medical device entrepreneur who has co-founded numerous companies, including EndoTex and Embolic Protection, Inc. (EPI), both acquired by Boston Scientific Corporation and Confluent Surgical, acquired by Tyco Healthcare. In addition, Fred founded and served as President and CEO of AccessClosure from 2002 through 2010. He is the managing director of Incept, a medical device incubator that has spawned several novel device companies including Sadra Medical, Ostial, Inc., where Fred serves as CEO, and Ocular Therapeutics, where Fred serves as co-founder and Director/Chairman. Fred also served on the boards of Kerberos before its acquisition by FoxHollow Technologies and Advanced Stent Technologies, prior to its acquisition by Boston Scientific. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Fred held management positions at Focal, Inc., Alcon Surgical and Guidant. At Guidant, he led the initial design and development of the MultiLink stent. Fred has authored or co-authored over 40 issued or filed patent applications. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering, and graduated summa cum laude, obtaining a M.S. in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Tech University.

Hank Plain – Morgenthaler Ventures
Hank Plain is a Partner at Morgenthaler Ventures and the Vice Chairman of The Foundry, a premiere medical device incubator providing expertise in founding, funding, product development and operational management. Recently, Mr. Plain was on the board and a member of the deal committee that helped successfully negotiate the acquisition of Acclarent by Johnson & Johnson for $785 million in December 2009. In addition, Mr. Plain was Chairman of the Board of Embolic Protection, Inc., helping to negotiate the acquisition of EPI by Boston Scientific in 2001. He was also a director of TransVascular, Inc., which was acquired by Medtronic in 2003. Previously, Mr. Plain was President and CEO of Perclose, during which time he led the company to $100 million in sales and managed the company’s successful IOP and acquisition in 1999 by Abbott Laboratories. Prior to joining Perclose, Mr. Plain was with Eli Lilly and Company for 12 years in various management positions.

Greg D. Casciaro – President & CEO
Gregory D. Casciaro has over 28 years of medical device experience, 23 of those years in the cardiovascular space and leadership positions in both public and private companies. Prior to joining AccessClosure, Inc., he was the President and CEO of XTENT Inc, (XTNT), a revolutionary drug-eluting stent platform. Prior to XTENT, Greg was the President and CEO of Orquest Inc., a private company manufacturing and selling bio-therapeutic products to the orthopedic market. Orquest was acquired by DePuy Acromed, a division of Johnson and Johnson. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of General Surgical Innovations (GSII) which was acquired by US Surgical, a division of Tyco (TYC). He has held several senior level positions with Devices for Vascular Intervention, a division of Guidant Corporation (GDT), and North American Instrument Corporation. In addition to his operating roles, Greg is on the Board of Directors for Trireme Medical Inc, and a former Director at Kerberos, acquired by FoxHollow Technologies, and a former Director with AngioDynamics (ANGO). Greg graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI with a B.A. in Business Administration.

Jeani Delagardelle – New Leaf Venture Partners
Jeani Delagardelle is a Managing Director of New Leaf Venture Partners, a new healthcare technology fund established in August 2005, by healthcare technology partners of the Sprout Group. Mrs. Delagardelle joined Sprout in August 2000 and became General Partner in July 2001. Previously, she was a General Partner at Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners where she focused on healthcare investments. Before joining Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners, Mrs. Delagardelle spent 15 years in senior marketing, sales, business development and general manager positions in the healthcare industry. Specifically, she was Vice President of Global Marketing for Target Therapeutics (acquired by Boston Scientific for $1.1B) and spent nine years with the Medi-tech division of Boston Scientific in several senior management roles. Mrs. Delagardelle attended University of California at Irvine (MBA) and Occidental College (A.B.).

Rob Kuhling – ONSET Ventures
Rob Kuhling has experience in a variety of technology marketing, strategic development and management positions. Mr. Kuhling was Director of Marketing at Sun Microsystems, where he spearheaded the company's expansion into the design automation marketplace. He also served as Vice President and Manager of General Electric-Calma's $100 million electronic design automation business and was a team leader for Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Kuhling serves on the boards of several public and private companies, and has led ONSET Ventures' investments in companies like Clarify, Conceptus, Alteon, Packeteer, Embolic Protection, Endotex Interventional Systems and Gadzoox Networks. Mr. Kuhling’s current board memberships include AccessClosure, Apieron Biosystems, Curon Medical and Invarium. Mr. Kuhling received his A.B. from Hamilton College and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Conrad Wang – Three Arch Partners
Conrad joined Three Arch Partners as an Associate in January 2006. Prior to joining Three Arch Partners Conrad completed his orthopedic surgery training in the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Residency Program. Conrad has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MD from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Medical School where he was awarded the Rhone-Poulenc-Rorer Research Fellowship. He also has an MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was named a George F. Baker Scholar for outstanding academic achievement.

L.N. Hopkins, M.D. – State University of New York, Buffalo
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Buffalo (SUNY), Dr. Hopkins fostered the creation of the Toshiba Stroke Research Center bringing together neurosurgeons, cardiologists, physicists, and radiologists to study the neurovascular circulation and develop innovative approaches to diagnose, treat and prevent neurological diseases. Dr. Hopkins, is a recognized leader in the field of cerebral microvascular - neuroendovascular surgery and is the author of numerous publications on the prevention and treatment of stroke.

Jeff Gold – Longitude Capital
Jeff Gold currently serves as a Partner at Longitude Capital. Prior to joining Longitude he was President & CEO of CryoVascular Systems, Inc. through the completion of its acquisition by Boston Scientific Corp. Prior to joining CryoVascular Systems, he was Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of CardioThoracic Systems (CTS), a publicly traded company that was acquired by Guidant Corp. in 1999. Previously, Mr. Gold spent over eighteen years with Cordis Corporation, now a Johnson & Johnson company as co-founder and President of Cordis Endovascular Systems. Mr. Gold received his engineering training at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass. and earned his MBA from University of Florida.

Jeffrey C. Lightcap – HealthCor Partners
Jeff Lightcap is a Senior Managing Director at HealthCor Partners, a leading growth-oriented private equity fund which invests across all sectors of healthcare. HealthCor Partners is affiliated with HealthCor Management, a $3.0 billion heathcare-focused hedge fund. Prior to HealthCor Partners, Mr. Lightcap was a Senior Managing Director for over nine years at JLL Partners, a leading middle-market private equity fund. Prior to JLL Partners, Mr. Lightcap was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. in charge of leverage buyout coverage for the mergers and acquisitions group. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Lightcap was a Senior Vice President in the mergers and acquisitions group at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and briefly at Salomon Brothers. Mr. Lightcap received a B.E. in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1981 and received an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1985.