People: MicroMed Cardiovascular Inc (MMCO.PK)

Mr. Zur Nieden was named Interim Chief Executive Officer in September 2006. Mr. zur Nieden has been a director of MicroMed since July 2006. Mr. zur Nieden is a managing partner of Ceres Capital Inc. He is a board member of Dunstone Financial (USA), a provider of professional debt collection solutions established in 1999, and is a co-founder and has been a board member of Inaxio, an information technology services company in Switzerland and Romania, since 2004. Mr. zur Nieden was the logistics director of Carlsberg Switzerland, responsible for its restructuring and reorganization, from 2002 to 2003. He also worked as CEO for CoCap Offerings Inc., a private equity trading platform that was merged with a security broker in Switzerland, from 2000 to 2001. Before that, he spent five years with Siemens AG in Germany and the United States to setup the GSM mobile network for the U.S. markets and with Nestlé in Singapore as an engineer. Mr. zur Nieden holds a Master of Science in engineering from ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).