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Thomas M. Loarie
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
See Executive Management 
Kirk Seward, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, Director, President, Chief Technology Officer
See Executive Management
Charles Crocker
Director
Charles Crocker is a principal of Crocker Capital, a private venture capital firm active in life sciences. He recently served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of BEI Technologies, Inc., a public, diversified technology company that he founded and was recently sold to Schneider Electric. He was Chairman, CEO, and founder of BEI Medical Systems, a public medical device company that was sold to Boston Scientific. He serves on the boards of Franklin Resources, Inc. and its subsidiaries (parent of the Franklin Templeton Funds), Pope & Talbot, Inc. and Teledyne Technologies, Inc. He is Chair of the Franklin Compensation Committee and Chair of the Pope and Talbot Audit Committee. Mr. Crocker has been Chairman of the Board of Children’s Hospital in San Francisco, Chairman of the Hamlin School’s Board of Trustees, President of the Foundation of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and a Trustee of the Buck Center for Research in Aging. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Mary A. Crocker Trust. Mr. Crocker received his B.S. degree from Stanford University and an M.B.A from the University of California, Berkeley.
Albert P. Pisano, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, Director
Dr. Pisano holds the FANUC Chair of Mechanical Systems in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and has a joint appointment to the University’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He also serves as Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC). From 1997 through 1999, he was the DARPA program manager for micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and managed a portfolio of 83 contracts awarded nationwide. His MEMS research includes drug delivery systems, holds over 10 patents in MEMS, has authored or co-authored more than 110 archival publications. He received his graduate degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University, and was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Joon Yun, M.D., CFA
Director
Dr. Yun is a partner at Palo Alto Investors, an SEC-registered investment advisor providing money management services to institutional clients and high net-worth individuals. Focused on investments in the healthcare sector, Dr. Yun has been a physician and serves on the clinical faculty at Stanford University Medical Center’s Department of Radiology since 1995. He provides Palo Alto Investors evaluation of healthcare companies, bringing clinical expertise as well as medical industry experience. Dr. Yun received his Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Harvard University and his Doctor of Medicine from Duke University School of Medicine.
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