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Thomas M. Loarie
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Loarie has participated in the healthcare industry for 34 years, bringing more than 20 medical devices to market worldwide. He has served as co-founder and Chairman of CardioProfile, Inc.; CEO and Chairman of KeraVision, Inc.; COO of Novacor, Inc.; and as President of American Heyer-Schulte (Division of American Hospital Supply, now Baxter, Inc.). He has served as Assistant Professor of Surgery, Creighton University Medical School; Chairman-elect, Board Member, and Executive Committee member, AdvaMed (the Advanced Medical Technology Association); and as a board member of the California Healthcare Institute. Mr. Loarie serves on the advisory board of Uptake Medical, Inc (Seattle, WA.). He received his B.S.M.E. from the University of Notre Dame, and participated in graduate business studies at the Universities of Minnesota and Chicago.
Kirk Seward, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, Director, President, Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Seward is the inventor of the Mercator MicroSyringe and led its development from prototype through FDA 510(k) marketing clearance. Prior to co-founding Mercator MedSystems Dr. Seward was a staff principal investigator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He completed his doctoral studies in mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and his masters and bachelors in mechanical engineering at MIT. He has authored more than 20 patent applications.
Wendy Hitchcock
Chief Business Officer, Executive Vice President
Finance and Corporate Development
Ms. Hitchcock has 25 years of experience building and financing companies, including 15 years in the life sciences. She was most recently CEO of LabVelocity, and was previously SVP Operations and Finance at Affymax, CFO at ACLARA BioSciences, VP Corporate Development for Keravision, and CFO for SyStemix, a pioneering stem cell company. She has a B.A. from Brown University and an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Sid Gandionco
Vice President, Engineering
Mr. Gandionco has more than 23 years of medical device design and manufacturing experience. He has served in senior engineering and manufacturing positions with Thoratec Medical, Advanced Cardiovascular Systems (Guidant), Keravision, Endotex, and Coalescent Surgical.
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