Board of Directors
Donald Milder
Jonathan Root, M.D.
Jonathan Root, M.D. has served as a member of our Board since September 2011. Dr. Root has served as the Managing Member of Presidio Management Group X, LLC and several U.S. Venture Partners’ funds, which are the general partners of various other venture capital funds, since 1998. Dr. Root currently serves on the board of Edgewise Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: EWTX), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on treating severe, rare muscle disorders, where he serves as a member of the audit committee. Dr. Root served on the boards of eFFECTOR Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: EFTR), a biopharmaceutical company, from May 2013 to February 2022, and Silverback Therapeutics, Inc., until its acquisition by ARS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in November 2022. Additionally, Dr. Root currently serves on the board of directors for several private companies in the healthcare industry. Dr. Root received an A.B. from Dartmouth College, an M.D. from University of Florida, College of Medicine and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
Cynthia Lucchese
Cynthia Lucchese has served as a member of our Board since November 2019. From November 2020 through February 2023, Ms. Lucchese was the Chief Strategy Officer of Penske Entertainment Corp., a subsidiary of Penske Corporation, where she also served as Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Financial Officer from November 2015 through October 2020. Prior to this, she was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hillenbrand, Inc., a global industrial company (NYSE: HI), from January 2008 to March 2014. Ms. Lucchese has more than twenty years of experience with medical device and life sciences companies, including Guidant Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, and Thoratec Corporation, where she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Lucchese currently serves on the board of The CooperCompanies, Inc., a global medical device company (NYSE: COO), where she serves as member of the audit committee and corporate governance and nominating committee. She is also a member of the board of directors of BVI Medical, a privately owned surgical ophthalmic company, where she serves as chair of the audit committee, and is a member of the board of directors of Relievant Medsystems, a privately owned medical device company pioneering a minimally invasive solution to lower back pain, where she serves as chair of the audit committee. Ms. Lucchese is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Indiana University. Ms. Lucchese previously served on the board of Hanger, Inc., a provider of orthotic and prosthetic patient care services and solutions, until its acquisition by Patient Square Capital in October 2022, and on the board of Intersect ENT, Inc. from 2014 until its acquisition by Medtronic Inc. in 2022, where she served on the nominating and corporate governance committee and as chair of the audit committee. Ms. Lucchese has a B.S. in accounting and an M.B.A. from Indiana University, Kelley School of Business.
Catherine Szyman
Catherine Szyman has served as a member of our Board since November 2019. Since January 2015, Ms. Szyman has been the Corporate Vice President of Critical Care at Edwards Lifesciences Corp., a global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart diseases and critical care and surgical monitoring (NYSE: EW). Prior to this, Ms. Szyman worked at Medtronic from 1991 to 2014, where she held a number of roles, including President of Global Diabetes, Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development, Vice President and General Manager for the Endovascular business and Vice President of Finance for the Vascular business. Ms. Szyman currently serves on the boards of Outset Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: OM), a medical technology company pioneering a first-of-its-kind technology to reduce the cost and complexity of dialysis, where she serves as a member of the compensation committee, and a board member for the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas. From 2016 to 2021, Ms. Szyman served as a board observer for Endotronix, Inc., a private medical device company. Ms. Szyman has a B.A. from University of St. Thomas and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Bill Hoffman
William Hoffman has served as a member of our Board since February 2015 and served as our Chief Executive Officer and President from February 2015 until December 2022. Mr. Hoffman previously served as Chief Executive Officer at Visualase, Inc., a private company focusing on MRI-guided lasers, from May 2008 until its acquisition by Medtronic PLC, in July 2014. Prior to this, Mr. Hoffman was the Chief Operating Officer of Rubicor Medical, Inc., a private company focusing on minimally invasive breast biopsy and lumpectomy technology, from April 2006 to November 2007. From July 2003 to February 2006, Mr. Hoffman served as Director of Sales and then the Vice President of Sales at FoxHollow Technologies, Inc, a private and later, a public company that makes medical devices used to treat peripheral artery disease. Mr. Hoffman received a B.A. from Dickinson College.
Rebecca Chambers
Rebecca Chambers has served as member of our board of directors since June 2021. Since July 2021, Ms. Chambers has served as the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Veracyte, Inc., a global genomic diagnostics company. From June 2019 to July 2021, Ms. Chambers served as the Chief Financial Officer of Outset Medical, Inc., a medical technology company pioneering a novel technology to reduce the cost and complexity of dialysis. Prior to that, she was at Illumina, Inc., a genetic tools company, where she served in a number of roles: as the Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis from July 2017 to May 2019, as Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasury from April 2015 to June 2017, and as Senior Director, Investor Relations from October 2012 to April 2015. Previously, Ms. Chambers served as Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications at Myriad Genetics, a molecular diagnostic company, from January 2011 to October 2012, and in various roles in investor relations at Life Technologies, a biotechnology company, from May 2009 to December 2010. She also previously held positions with Bank of America, a financial services company, and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company that was acquired by Takeda Pharmaceuticals Co. Ms. Chambers holds a B.S. from John Carroll University and an M.B.A. from The S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.
Dana G. Mead, Jr.
Dana G. Mead, Jr. has served as a member of our Board since October 2021. From May 2019 to February 2021, Mr. Mead served as President and CEO of HeartFlow, Inc., a medical device company located in Redwood City, CA. From November 2016 to May 2019, Mr. Mead served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Beaver-Visitec International, a medical device company located in Waltham, MA. Previously, Mr. Mead was a Strategic Advisor and Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, having joined the firm in May 2005 and serving until June 2016. Mr. Mead was at Guidant Corporation, a cardiovascular medical device company, from 1992 to 2005, most recently as President, Guidant Vascular Intervention. Mr. Mead currently serves on the boards of Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. (NYSE: INSP), a medical technology company, where he serves as a member of the audit committee, and Pulmonx Corporation (NASDAQ: LUNG), a medical device company, where he serves as chairperson of the board. He previously served on the board of Intersect ENT, Inc. until its acquisition by Medtronic Inc. in 2022. Mr. Mead holds a B.A. from Lafayette College and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.
Robert K. Warner
Robert Warner has served as a member of our board since March 2022. From August 2015 to February 2018, Mr. Warner served as President and General Manager of Alcon Vision Care Franchise (Alcon). Prior to that, Mr. Warner served as President, U.S. and Canada, for Alcon from January 2012 to July 2015 and as President, Canada and Latin America, for Alcon from November 2010 to January 2012. From January 2005 to October 2010, Mr. Warner served in positions of increasing responsibility for Alcon. Mr. Warner was a member of the Alcon Executive Leadership Team for over 10 years and led the Alcon transition from Nestle to Novartis majority ownership. Since August 2021, Mr. Warner has served on the board of directors of RXSight, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: RXST), a commercial-stage medical technology company dedicated to improving the vision of patients following cataract surgery, where he also serves as chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee and as a member of the compensation committee. Mr. Warner currently serves on the board two private medical device companies, i-Lumen Scientific, where he is also a member of the compensation committee, and EyeYon Medical, where he also serves as Chairman. In addition, Mr. Warner is a board member of GRACE, the Grapevine Relief and Community Exchange, a nonprofit relief agency that provides vital necessities to people who are struggling with a limited income or recent emergency. Mr. Warner holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Pace University and an MBA from Rutgers University.
Drew Hykes
Drew Hykes has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President and as a member of our Board since January 2023. Mr. Hykes is a proven medical device operating executive with broad functional, geographic and sector experience. From September 2020 until December 2022, Mr. Hykes served as our Chief Operating Officer leading the day-to-day business operations. From September 2017 to September 2020, he served as our Chief Commercial Officer. From 2012 to 2016 Mr. Hykes served as the VP of Commercial Operations at Sequent Medical where he led the commercialization strategy for the WEB Aneurysm Embolization system from early prototype to broad adoption in the European market. Prior to Sequent, Mr. Hykes spent 11 years at Medtronic. His roles at Medtronic included the VP of Marketing for the AF Solutions business, VP of Clinical and Regulatory for the AF Solutions business and Director of Investor Relations. Mr. Hykes also spent three years on an expatriate assignment in Europe leading the launch of Medtronic’s first drug eluting coronary stent. Prior to Medtronic, he spent four years at ABN AMRO bank in Chicago focused on healthcare transactions. Mr. Hykes holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Harvard Business School.