People: IRIDEX Corp (IRIX.OQ)

IRIX.OQ on NASDAQ Stock Exchange Global Market

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1 Aug 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

William Moore

64 2012 Chairman of the Board, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer

James Mackaness

49 2012 Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer

Eduardo Arias

68 2012 Senior Vice President - Global Sales

Ronald Steckel

60 2012 Vice President - Operations

Scott Shuda

47 2012 Director

Sanford Fitch

72 2004 Independent Director

Garrett Garrettson

70 2010 Independent Director

James Hawkins

57 2007 Independent Director

Ruediger Naumann-Etienne

66 2009 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

William Moore

Mr. William M. Moore, Jr, serves as Chairman of the Board, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Iridex Corp. He has served as a director of the Company since September 2007, as Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors since September 2010, and as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since August 2012. Mr. Moore served as a member of the Company’s Compensation Committee from September 2007 to July 2010, and as the Chairman of the Company’s Nominating and Governance Committee from February 2009 to October 2012. Mr. Moore also currently serves on the board of directors of Natus Medical Incorporated, a public company he co-founded in 1990 and for which he served as CEO until 1993. Natus Medical Incorporated is a provider of healthcare products used for the screening, detection, treatment, monitoring and tracking of common medical ailments such as hearing impairment, neurological dysfunction, epilepsy, sleep disorders, and certain newborn conditions. Mr. Moore served as a consultant to BlueLine Partners, a private equity firm, from February 2004 until June 2008. From February 2008 to June 2010, Mr. Moore served on the board of directors of Urologix, Inc., a public company that develops, manufactures and markets minimally invasive medical products for the treatment of urological disorders. From February 2006 to February 2008, Mr. Moore served on the board of directors of Criticare Systems, Inc. a public company that develops, manufactures and markets patient monitoring systems and accessories used in anesthesia, critical care, medical transport and outpatient care settings. From March 2003 until February 2004, Mr. Moore was a general partner of Alpine Partners, a venture capital firm. Mr. Moore served as CEO of Metasensors, Inc., a medical device company, from 1998 to March 2003. Mr. Moore holds a B.S. in Business from the University of Utah.

James Mackaness

Mr. James H. Mackaness is Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer of Iridex Corp. Mr. Mackaness joined the Company in January 2008 as Chief Financial Officer and has served as Chief Operating Officer of the Company since August 2012. Prior to his employment with the Company, from September 2001 to December 2007, Mr. Mackaness served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance of NextHop Technologies, Inc., a networking wireless technology company. Prior to that, Mr. Mackaness served as Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Infogear Technologies Corporation and held senior management positions at Cisco Systems, Inc. and Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Mackaness received his B.A. with honors in Psychology from the University of Warwick, England and is a Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Eduardo Arias

Mr. Eduardo Arias is Senior Vice President - Global Sales of Iridex Corp., since October 2012. Mr. Arias co-founded the Company and, from April 1989 to September 1991, Mr. Arias served as Vice President, Sales & Marketing and, since September 1991, served as Senior Vice President, International Worldwide Sales. He was promoted to Senior Vice President, International Sales and Business Development in January 2002 and since October 2012 has held the position of Senior Vice President, Global Sales. Mr. Arias completed programs in Industrial and Military Electronics at the National Radio Institute and Strategic Marketing at Stanford University, as well as management seminars through the American Management Association and scientific seminars sponsored by Varian, Inc. and Coherent, Inc.

Ronald Steckel

Mr. Ronald T. Steckel is Vice President - Operations of Iridex Corp., since April 2012. Prior to joining IRIDEX, from January 2009 to March 2012, Mr. Steckel was an independent consultant, providing broad-based consulting services to medical technology companies from development stage to full commercialization. From June 2010 to December 2010, Mr. Steckel was President and CEO of Morris Innovative, focused primarily on fund raising to support the commercial launch of an innovative therapeutic vascular closure device. From August 2007 to November 2008, he served as President and CEO of Pulmonx during the transition to later stage product development and associated fund raising for US clinical trials. From July 2004 to July 2007, Mr. Steckel served as Chief Operating Officer of FoxHollow Technologies, peripheral vascular therapeutics which was acquired by ev3 Inc. Mr. Steckel received his Masters degree in Business Administration from Lake Forest College and his B.S. in Biology from Blackburn University in Carlinville, IL.

Scott Shuda

Mr. Scott A. Shuda has been appointed as Director of Iridex Corp., effective December 5, 2012. Mr. Shuda is the Managing Director and Co-founder of BlueLine Partners, LLC, an investment firm that focuses on publicly listed technology and healthcare companies. Mr. Shuda served as a director and Audit Committee member of MGC Diagnostics Corporation (formerly Angeion Corporation), a global medical technology company from 2010 to 2011. Prior to co-founding BlueLine Partners in April 2004, Mr. Shuda was General Counsel to Vicinity Corporation, an internet search company that went public in 2000 and was acquired by Microsoft in 2002. Prior to his employment with Vicinity, Mr. Shuda practiced law in California and New York, most recently in the Silicon Valley office of Latham & Watkins LLP. Mr. Shuda holds a J.D. from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.

Sanford Fitch

Mr. Sanford Fitch is Independent Director of Iridex Corp., since April 7, 2004. Mr. Fitch has served as a director and Audit Committee Chairman of Masimo Corp, a public company that designs, develops, manufactures and sells medical devices, since November 2006. Mr. Fitch also currently serves as a director of Ozone International, Inc., a privately held technology company. Mr. Fitch served as a director and Audit Committee Chairman of Foxhollow Technologies, Inc., a public company that designed, developed, manufactured and sold medical devices, from June 2004 until October 2007. He also served as a director and Audit Committee Chairman of Conceptus Inc., a public medical device company, from December 1994 until April 2004. Mr. Fitch was Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Operations of Conceptus from December 1994 through October 1998 and took the company public in 1996. Mr. Fitch also served as Chief Financial Officer of several start-up technology companies from 1998 until 2002. From December 1990 to January 1994, Mr. Fitch served as Chief Financial Officer of SanDisk Corp., a manufacturer of flash memory devices. From 1983 through 1989, Mr. Fitch was the Chief Financial Officer of Komag Inc., a manufacturer of rigid thin film media for the disk drive industry, and took the company public in 1987. Mr. Fitch holds a B.S. in Chemistry and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Garrett Garrettson

Dr. Garrett A. Garrettson, Ph.D., is Independent Director of Iridex Corp. He has served as a director of the Company since 2004 and served as Lead Independent Director and then Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors from January 2008 to September 2010. Dr. Garrettson is currently a principal of daVinci Capital Group, a private equity fund, and of G. Garrettson Consulting. From December 2005 to January 2008, Dr. Garrettson was CEO of Fresco Technologies, a privately held digital imaging company. From 2001 until 2004, Dr. Garrettson was the President and Chief Executive Officer of ClairVoyante, a privately held company that developed and licensed proprietary intellectual property to flat panel display manufacturers and that was purchased by Samsung. Prior to this, Dr. Garrettson was affiliated with Spectrian Corporation, a manufacturer of high power radio frequency transistors and amplifiers primarily for wireless network equipment, where Dr. Garrettson served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 2000 and as Chairman of the Board from 2000 to 2002. Before joining Spectrian, Dr. Garrettson served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Censtor Corporation, a pioneer in contact magnetic recording, and had various executive assignments at Seagate Technology and Control Data Corporation. After serving in the US Navy on active duty for four years, he began his executive career at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, where, among other things, he worked on medical device technology. Dr. Garrettson has served on boards of seven public companies and numerous private companies. He is currently Chairman of the board of directors of Giga-tronics, a public company, as well as a director of Purdy Electronics, a private company. From October 2004 until July 2010, Dr. Garrettson served as a director of GSI Group Inc., a public laser systems manufacturing company. Dr. Garrettson holds an M.S. in Engineering Physics as well as a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Stanford University .

James Hawkins

Mr. James B. Hawkins is Independent Director of Iridex Corp., since October 9, 2007.Since April 2004, Mr. Hawkins has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer, and a director of Natus Medical Incorporated. Prior to joining Natus Medical, Mr. Hawkins was President, Chief Executive Officer, and a director of Invivo Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of multi-parameter vital sign monitoring equipment, and its predecessor from 1985 through January 2004. Mr. Hawkins also served as Secretary of Invivo from 1986 until January 2004. Mr. Hawkins holds an undergraduate degree in Business Commerce from Santa Clara University and holds an M.B.A. from San Francisco State University.

Ruediger Naumann-Etienne

Dr. Ruediger Naumann-Etienne, Ph.D., is Independent Director of Iridex Corp., since December 18, 2009. Dr. Naumann-Etienne has been the owner and Managing Director of Intertec Group, an investment company specializing in the medical device field, since 1989. He was Chairman of Cardiac Science Corporation from 2006 until the company was sold to Opto Electronics of India in 2010. From 2000 to 2005, Dr. Naumann-Etienne served as Chairman and from 2000 to 2003 as Chief Executive Officer of Quinton Cardiology Systems, one of the predecessor companies of Cardiac Science. From 1993 until 1999, Dr. Naumann-Etienne was Chairman of OEC Medical Systems, a manufacturer of fluoroscopic imaging systems and from 1987 to 1990 he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Diasonics, a manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment. Dr. Naumann-Etienne has served on the board of directors of Varian Medical Systems, Inc., a public medical device company, since 2003, and Encision Inc., a public medical device company, since October 2008. Dr. Naumann-Etienne also served as a director of Cardiac Science Corporation, a public medical device company, from September 2005 until December 2010, and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a public life science company, from October 2003 until December 2009. Dr. Naumann-Etienne holds a Ph.D. in International Finance from the University of Michigan. He holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the Technical University Berlin, Germany.

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