John McDermott joined Endologix in May 2008 as President and Chief Executive Officer. He has nearly 20 years of executive management, sales, marketing and finance experience in the vascular device industry. From 2002 to 2007 he served as President of Bard Peripheral Vascular, a division of C.R. Bard, Inc. that earned several corporate awards for global sales growth, business development, income growth and sales from new products during his tenure. He previously was President of Global Sales for C.R. Bard's vascular surgery and endovascular businesses with responsibilities for managing a worldwide direct sales force with more than 200 representatives. Prior to that he served for four years as President of C.R. Bard division IMPRA, Inc., where he was responsible for global operations, including sales, marketing, research and development, manufacturing and finance. From 1990 to 1996 he was Chief Financial Officer and later Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of IMPRA, Inc., prior to its acquisition by C.R. Bard. He has been an active leader within the vascular community and was formerly on the board of directors of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists (ISES) and the Vascular Disease Foundation.
Joseph A. DeJohn
Vice President Sales
Joseph A. DeJohn joined us in July 2008 as Vice President of Sales. He has more than 20 years of sales management experience in the medical device industry, including serving 17 years at C.R. Bard Corporation. During his tenure at C.R. Bard, he held sales management positions with increasing responsibilities, serving the last six years as Vice President of Sales of the Peripheral Vascular Division. In this position, he was responsible managing a 200-person sales organization and played a leadership role in strategic planning, budgeting, recruitment, professional development, national accounts and customer service. Prior to that, Mr. DeJohn was Director of Sales of C.R. Bard's Peripheral Technologies Division. Before joining C.R. Bard, Mr. DeJohn served five years with Bausch & Lomb Corporation in various sales management positions. He received a B.S. in education from Bowling Green State University.
Janet Fauls joined us in November 2005 as our Director of Regulatory Affairs, and Quality Assurance. In July 2007, she was promoted to Senior Director of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs. Effective November 16, 2007, she was promoted to serve as our Vice President, Regulatory, Quality and Clinical Affairs. Ms. Fauls has more than 20 years of experience in the medical device and biopharmaceutical industries. From 1987 to 1997, Ms. Fauls held increasingly responsible positions in Quality and Regulatory Affairs for Allergan, Inc. and Alliance Pharmaceuticals. From 1997 to 2001, Ms. Fauls served in a Regulatory Affairs management capacity at Edwards Lifesciences with primary responsibility for surgical heart valve repair and replacement products and related disposable products. From 2001 to November 2005, Ms. Fauls served as Vice President, Regulatory, Quality and Clinical Affairs for Cardiogenesis Corporation, a medical device company specializing in laser-based cardiovascular therapies. Ms. Fauls received a BS in Chemistry from University of California, Santa Barbara.
Robert J. Krist
Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
Robert J. Krist joined us in August 2004 and serves as our Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. Mr. Krist served as Chief Financial Officer of CardioNet, Inc. from March 2003 until May 2004. Mr. Krist previously served for three years as Chief Financial Officer of Irvine-based Datum, Inc., a technology manufacturer. Prior to that, Mr. Krist served for three years as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Field Operations, of Bridge Medical, Inc., a start-up pharmacy information systems company. Mr. Krist also held various management positions during his six years at McGaw, Inc., including Chief Financial Officer and President of the Central Admixture Pharmacy Services Division. Mr. Krist received a BS in physics from Villanova University and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
Stefan G. Schreck Ph.D.
Vice President of Technology
Stefan G. Schreck, Ph.D. joined us in February 2004 and serves as our Vice President of Technology. Dr. Schreck has more than 20 years of experience in research and development of medical products. Prior to joining us, Dr. Schreck held increasingly more responsible R&D management positions in the medical device industry. From May 1995 to April 2000, Dr. Schreck served as Director of Research in Baxter Healthcare's Heart Valve Division. From April 2000 to August 2002, Dr. Schreck served as Senior Director R&D at Edwards Lifesciences and was responsible for the development of all surgical heart valve repair and replacement products. From August 2002 to February 2004, Dr. Schreck served as President & CEO of MediMorph Solutions Inc., an engineering and management consulting firm for the medical device industry that he founded.
Gary I. Sorsher
Vice President, Quality
Gary I. Sorsher joined us in October 2008 as Vice President, Quality, bringing 20 years of quality assurance experience. Prior to joining Endologix, he served for two years as Director of Quality Engineering at Bard Peripheral Vascular, where he oversaw quality assurance operations for Bard Peripheral Vascular and Bard Biopsy Systems. Prior to that, he spent 13 years at Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson Company, holding several positions with increasing responsibility during his tenure. Among these, he served as Director of Quality Assurance – New Product Development and as the senior quality assurance representative for Cordis' Global Commercialization Team responsible for drug eluting stents, stent delivery systems and angioplasty products. Mr. Sorsher received a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Byelorussian Polytechnic Institute, USSR.
Board of Directors
Franklin D. Brown
Chairman of the Board
Franklin D. Brown serves as our Chairman and has been a director since 2002, and was formerly a director of the private company Endologix, Inc. from 1997 to 2002. Following the merger with the former Endologix in May 2002, Mr. Brown was our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman until January 2003, when he was elected Executive Chairman. Mr. Brown served as our Executive Chairman until October 2004. Mr. Brown previously served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the former Endologix, Inc. since joining that company in 1998. From October 1994 until the sale of the company in September 1997, Mr. Brown served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Imagyn Medical, Inc. From 1986 until the sale of the company in 1994, Mr. Brown served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Pharmacia Deltec, Inc., an ambulatory drug delivery company. Mr. Brown also serves on the board of directors of Interventional Spine, Inc., a private medical device company.
Edward Diethrich M.D.
Edward B. Diethrich, M.D. has served on our Board of Directors since May 2002. Dr. Diethrich was a Director for the former Endologix, Inc. from 1997 until its merger with us in May 2002. Dr. Diethrich has been the Medical Director and Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery of the Arizona Heart Hospital since 1997, and has been the Director and Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Arizona Heart Institute from 1971 to the present.
Roderick De Greef
Roderick de Greef has served on our Board of Directors since November 2003. Mr. de Greef is the principal of Taveyanne Capital Advisors, Inc., a corporate firm providing finance consulting services. Mr. de Greef served as the Chief Financial Officer of Cambridge Heart from October 2005 to July 2007. Prior to that, Mr. de Greef served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Cardiac Science, Inc. from March 2001 to September 2005. From 1995 to 2001, Mr. de Greef provided corporate finance advisory services to a number of early stage companies including Cardiac Science, where he was instrumental in securing equity capital beginning in 1997, and advising on merger and acquisition activity. From 1989 to 1995, Mr. de Greef was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BioAnalogics, Inc. and International BioAnalogics, Inc., both publicly held development stage medical technology companies located in Portland, Oregon. From 1986 to 1989, Mr. de Greef was Controller and then Chief Financial Officer of publicly held Brentwood Instruments, Inc. Mr. de Greef has a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from California State University at San Francisco and an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon. Mr. de Greef serves on the board of BioLife Solutions, Inc., a public biotechnology company located in Owego, New York. Mr. de Greef also serves on the board of ElephantTalk Communications, Inc., an international communications operator based in Orange, California.
Paul McCormick
Paul McCormick has been a corporate director since May of 2002 and served as our President and Chief Executive Officer until May 2008. Mr. McCormick has more than 27 years in the medical device industry. Mr. McCormick joined the former Endologix in January 1998, as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and served as President and Chief Operating Officer from January 2001 until the merger in May 2002. He was named President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2003. Previously, he held senior sales and marketing positions at Progressive Angioplasty Systems, Heart Technology, Trimedyne Inc., and United States Surgical Corporation. Mr. McCormick also serves as Chairman of the Board of Cardiogenesis, and is a corporate director at Cianna Medical and Embrella Cardiovascular.
John McDermott
President and Chief Executive Officer
John McDermott joined Endologix in May 2008 as President and Chief Executive Officer. He has nearly 20 years of executive management, sales, marketing and finance experience in the vascular device industry. From 2002 to 2007 he served as President of Bard Peripheral Vascular, a division of C.R. Bard, Inc. that earned several corporate awards for global sales growth, business development, income growth and sales from new products during his tenure. He previously was President of Global Sales for C.R. Bard's vascular surgery and endovascular businesses with responsibilities for managing a worldwide direct sales force with more than 200 representatives. Prior to that he served for four years as President of C.R. Bard division IMPRA, Inc., where he was responsible for global operations, including sales, marketing, research and development, manufacturing and finance. From 1990 to 1996 he was Chief Financial Officer and later Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of IMPRA, Inc., prior to its acquisition by C.R. Bard. He has been an active leader within the vascular community and was formerly on the board of directors of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists (ISES) and the Vascular Disease Foundation.
Jeffrey O'Donnell
Jeffrey F. O'Donnell has served on our Board of Directors since June 1998. Mr. O'Donnell joined us in a management capacity in 1995, became President in January 1998 and Chief Executive Officer that June. In November 1999 Mr. O'Donnell joined PhotoMedex, Inc., a publicly traded company, as President and Chief Executive Officer and has served as a member of its Board of Directors since that date. From 1994 to 1995 Mr. O'Donnell held the position of President and CEO of Kensey Nash Corporation, a manufacturer of Cardiology Products. Additionally, he has held several senior sales and marketing management positions at Boston Scientific, Guidant and Johnson & Johnson Orthopedic. Mr. O'Donnell currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cardiac Science Corporation, a publicly traded company. Mr. O'Donnell is a graduate of LaSalle University School of Business.
Gregory D. Waller
Gregory D. Waller has served on our Board of Directors since November 2003. Mr. Waller has been Chief Financial Officer of Universal Building Products, a manufacturer of concrete construction accessories since March, 2006. Previous to that Mr. Waller had been in retirement except for board directorships. Mr. Waller served as Vice President-Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Sybron Dental Specialties, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of consumable dental products, from August 1993 until his retirement in May 2005 and was formerly the Vice President and Treasurer of Kerr, Ormco and Metrex. Mr. Waller joined Ormco in December 1980 as Vice President and Controller and served as Vice President of Kerr European Operations from July 1989 to August 1993. Mr. Waller has an MBA with a concentration in accounting from California State University, Fullerton. Mr. Waller also serves on the board of Clarient, Inc., Cardiogenesis Corporation, Alsius Corporation and SenoRx, Inc., all publicly traded companies, where he is the audit committee chairman. He serves on the board of VivoMetrics Corp., a privately-held company.
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