People: Synergetics USA Inc (SURG.PH)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Robert Dick	69	2008	Independent Chairman of the Board
David Hable	57	2009	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Pamela Boone	49		Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary
Jerry Malis	80	2011	Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer
Michael Fanning	46	2009	Vice President - Domestic Sales
Jason Stroisch	37	2011	Vice President - Marketing and Technology
Lawrence Cardinale	74	2005	Independent Director
Guy Guarch	72	2005	Independent Director
Juanita Hinshaw	67	2005	Independent Director
D. Graeme Thomas	74	2011	Independent Director
Patricia Williams	45	2011	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Robert Dick	Mr. Robert H. Dick serves as an Independent Chairman of the Board of Synergetics USA Inc. He has been a director of the Company since 2005, when Synergetics, Inc. merged with Valley Forge Scientific Corp. (“Valley Forge”) (now known as Synergetics USA, Inc. or the “Company”) and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since July 31, 2008. From July 31, 2008 until January 28, 2009, Mr. Dick, along with the Company’s other Independent Directors at that time, served as the Company’s principal executive officer, generally on a weekly rotating basis. Prior to the merger, Mr. Dick had been a director of Valley Forge since 1997. Mr. Dick has served as President of R.H. Dick & Company since January 1998, a consulting firm based in Camp Verde, Texas. From 1996 to 1998, he was a partner with Boles, Knop & Company, Inc., an investment banking firm in Middleburg, Virginia. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Dick served as interim President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of two of Boles’ clients. From 1982 until 1994, he served in various executive roles with Codman & Shurtleff, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson and a manufacturer of surgical instruments, implants, equipment and other surgical products. From 1978 to 1982, Mr. Dick was President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Fiberoptics, Inc., a company that designed, manufactured and marketed fiberoptic products for medical and defense applications and surgical microscopes for surgery. From 1969 to 1978, Mr. Dick held various sales, marketing and general management positions with the USCI division of C.R. Bard, Inc. Mr. Dick also serves as a member of the board, chairman of the audit committee and member of the executive and governance committees for Span-America Medical Systems, Inc., which designs and manufactures wound management products and which has securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
David Hable	Mr. David M. Hable serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Synergetics USA, Inc., since January 2009. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hable served as President and CEO of Afferent Corporation, a venture capital backed medical device company focused on neuro stimulation therapies. Previously, he was Chairman of the Board of ONI Medical Systems, Inc., a developer and marketer of magnetic resonance imaging equipment for extremity applications in non-hospital settings. Mr. Hable also spent over 20 years with Johnson & Johnson working in business units that developed and marketed a range of diagnostic and therapeutic products for the treatment of central nervous system disorders. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Hable served as Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.’s worldwide President, all functions in the company, both domestically and internationally. Mr. Hable has overall responsibility for the management of the Company.
Pamela Boone	Ms. Pamela G. Boone serves as Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary of Synergetics USA, Inc. Prior to this, Ms. Boone served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Maverick Tube Corporation (“Maverick”) from 2001 until January 2005 and as Vice President, Treasurer and acting Chief Financial Officer until May 2005. Maverick, a Missouri-based company, was a North American producer of welded tubular steel products used in energy and industrial applications. From 1997 to 2001, Ms. Boone served as Maverick’s Corporate Controller. Ms. Boone coordinates and supervises the financial, accounting, human resources and information technology of the Company.
Jerry Malis	Dr. Jerry L. Malis is Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer of Synergetics USA, Inc. He resigned as Director of the Company effective December 13, 2011. Immediately prior to the consummation of the merger with Valley Forge, Dr. Malis served as Valley Forge’s Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Valley Forge. He has published over 50 articles in the biological science, electronics and engineering fields, and has been issued ten United States patents. Dr. Malis coordinates and supervises the scientific developments of the Company’s electrosurgery products.
Michael Fanning	Mr. Michael R. Fanning serves as Vice President - Domestic Sales of Synergetics USA, Inc. He joined the Company as a territory manager in June 2003. He was promoted to National Sales Manager in May 2006 and became Vice President of Domestic Sales in April 2009. Prior to this, Mr. Fanning worked for GE Capital for over ten years. Mr. Fanning coordinates and supervises the domestic sales operations of the Company.
Jason Stroisch	Mr. Jason J. Stroisch serves as Vice President - Marketing and Technology of Synergetics USA, Inc. In his seventeen years with the Company, Mr. Stroisch has had increasing levels of responsibility within the organization, including International Product Manager, International Sales Manager and Vice President of Ophthalmic Sales. In April 2009, he was promoted to Vice President of International Sales and Marketing. In August 2012, oversight of the R&D efforts was added to his responsibilities. Mr. Stroisch coordinates and supervises the marketing efforts of the Company and the scientific development of the Company’s ophthalmic and OEM products.
Lawrence Cardinale	Mr. Lawrence C. Cardinale serves as an Independent Director of Synergetics USA Inc. since 2005. From July 31, 2008 until January 28, 2009, Mr. Cardinale, along with the Company’s other Independent Directors at that time, served as the Company’s principal executive officer, generally on a weekly rotating basis. Mr. Cardinale received his B.S.B.A. in Business from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and is retired after working in the medical industry since 1966. During his over 35 years working in the field of medical manufacturing, he held various management positions, including Plant Manager, Director of Manufacturing, Director of Corporate Engineering, Director of Operations Planning, Vice President of Manufacturing-International and Vice President-Global Manufacturing and Engineering of a multi-national medical manufacturing company. Mr. Cardinale also owned and operated a scientific laboratory instrument business concentrating in the life sciences field, which manufactured and marketed tissue sectioning, microforge and micromanipulation instruments and pipeting devices. Mr. Cardinale formerly served as a board member of Coretech-Holdings LLC, a St. Louis-based life sciences and medical device manufacturing company, and McCormick Scientific, LLC.
Guy Guarch	Mr. Guy R. Guarch serves as an Independent Director of Synergetics USA Inc. He has been a director of the Company since 2005, when Synergetics, Inc. merged with Valley Forge. From July 31, 2008 until January 28, 2009, Mr. Guarch, along with the Company’s other Independent Directors at that time, served as the Company’s principal executive officer, generally on a weekly rotating basis. Mr. Guarch retired in 2001 from C.R. Bard, Inc. where he spent 32 years in various sales, marketing and management roles. Bard is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of health care products used for vascular, urological and oncologic diagnosis and intervention. From 1993 to 2001, Mr. Guarch served as Regional Vice President Corporate Account Manager for Bard’s Southeast Region. He worked as President of Bard Venture Division in Boston, Massachusetts from 1991 to 1993. From 1988 to 1991, Mr. Guarch worked in London, England, as Vice President of Sales for the Bard European Division and Managing Director of Bard LTD, UK. Before 1988, Mr. Guarch worked in several sales and marketing roles for Bard’s USCI International Division in Boston, Massachusetts, which focused on the design, manufacture and sale of cardiac catheters, urological catheters and artificial arteries. Mr. Guarch currently serves as a board member and chairman of the governance committee for Span-America Medical Systems, Inc., which designs and manufactures wound management products and which has securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”).
Juanita Hinshaw	Ms. Juanita H. Hinshaw serves as an Independent Director of Synergetics USA Inc. She has served as a director of the Company since 2005 when Synergetics, Inc. merged with Valley Forge. From July 31, 2008 until January 28, 2009, Ms. Hinshaw, along with the Company’s other Independent Directors at that time, served as the Company’s principal executive officer, generally on a weekly rotating basis. Ms. Hinshaw has been President and Chief Executive Officer of H&H Advisors (a financial advisory company) since 2005. In addition, Ms. Hinshaw served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Graybar Electric Company from May 2000 to May 2005. Graybar Electric Company specializes in supply chain management services and distributes high-quality components, equipment and materials for the electrical and telecommunications industries. Ms. Hinshaw has served as a director, chairman of the finance committee and as a member of the audit committee for The Williams Companies, Inc. since 2004 and has served as a director on the board, chairman of the compensation committee and as a member of the audit committee for Aegion Corporation since 1999. The Williams Company and Aegion Corporation have securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
D. Graeme Thomas	Mr. D. Graeme Thomas serves as an Independent Director of Synergetics USA, Inc., since August 8, 2011. Mr. Thomas is currently the Director of St. Louis University’s Office of Technology Management, a position in which he is responsible for intellectual property protection and commercialization of technologies investigated and identified at St. Louis University. From 2004 until 2008, Mr. Thomas served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Akermin, Inc., a private company that engages in the development and use of stabilized enzymes in applications ranging from biofuel cells to carbon captures and separation. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Thomas served as Chief Executive Officer of Cardialen, Inc., a private company engaged in the development of low-voltage implantable devices for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Prior to 2004, Mr. Thomas held various positions in companies specializing in the life sciences industry, primarily medical devices and pharmaceuticals, including CooperVision Optics and CooperVision International, Rorer Pharmaceuticals, Sherwood Medical, Wyeth and MedAscent Group.
Patricia Williams	Ms. Patricia S. Williams, Esq., serves as an Independent Director of Synergetics USA, Inc., since August 8, 2011. Ms. Williams served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of RehabCare Group, Inc., a provider of physical rehabilitation program management services in over 1,200 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and other long-term care facilities throughout the United States, from 2007 until its acquisition by Kindred Healthcare, Inc. in June 2011. Ms. Williams previously held the position of Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Thermadyne Holdings Corporation, a multi-national manufacturer of welding and cutting products, from 1997 to 2007. Ms. Williams serves on the Board of Directors and on the Audit and Compensation Committees of YTB International, Inc., a marketer and provider of internet-based business solutions offering travel-related services, as well as shopping opportunities, and as a Director of White Drive Products, Inc., a global supplier of hydraulic motors and drive system products for mobile and industrial applications. YTB International, Inc. has securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Robert Dick	99,846
David Hable	1,144,600
Pamela Boone	527,758
Jerry Malis	494,346
Michael Fanning	426,704
Jason Stroisch	419,864
Lawrence Cardinale	65,296
Guy Guarch	59,096
Juanita Hinshaw	61,346
D. Graeme Thomas	--
Patricia Williams	--

As Of 30 Jul 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Robert Dick	0	0
David Hable	0	0
Pamela Boone	0	0
Jerry Malis	100,000	23,750
Michael Fanning	0	0
Jason Stroisch	0	0
Lawrence Cardinale	0	0
Guy Guarch	0	0
Juanita Hinshaw	0	0
D. Graeme Thomas	0	0
Patricia Williams	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
FANNING MICHAEL	2,000	$3.43
FANNING MICHAEL	2,800	$3.26
FANNING MICHAEL	4,500	$3.32
BOONE PAMELA G	41,310	$1.09
HABLE DAVID M	21,407	$0.00
MALIS JERRY L	7,395	$0.00
FANNING MICHAEL	4,058	$0.00
BOONE PAMELA G	7,316	$0.00
STROISCH JASON	4,742	$0.00
DICK ROBERT H	10,000	$1.06
BOONE PAMELA G	2,800	$4.00
HABLE DAVID M	4,000	$4.03
DICK ROBERT H	10,000	$2.75
GAMPP KURT W JR	9,000	$5.64
HABLE DAVID M	4,000	$5.86
MALIS JERRY L	1,500	$7.00
MALIS JERRY L	2,000	$7.00
MALIS JERRY L	40	$7.00
MALIS JERRY L	400	$7.00
MALIS JERRY L	5,000	$7.42
MALIS JERRY L	5,000	$7.45
MALIS JERRY L	5,000	$7.51
MALIS JERRY L	5,000	$7.47
MALIS JERRY L	5,000	$7.39
MALIS JERRY L	5,000	$7.33

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