As a healthcare technology executive and former Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kill brings to our Board extensive experience in the healthcare technology and medical device industry, including in the areas of executive leadership, operations and strategy.
Joseph E. Whitters has served as a member of our Board since July 2018. Mr. Whitters has been an advisor/consultant to Frazier Healthcare, a private equity firm, since 2005. From 1986 to 2005, Mr. Whitters served in various capacities with First Health Group Corp., a publicly traded managed care company, most recently as its Chief Financial Officer. He also previously served as the Controller for United Healthcare Corp, a publicly traded health care management company, from 1984 to 1986. Prior to that, Mr. Whitters served as the Manager of Accounting and Taxation for Overland Express, a publicly traded trucking company, and he began his career in public accounting with Peat Marwick (now KPMG). Whitters has served on the boards of directors and audit committees of various public companies, including Cutera, Inc., a global aesthetics device company, from February 2019 through June 2023, InfuSystem Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded provider of infusion pumps and related products and services, from April 2012 through May 2019; Analogic Corporation, a private healthcare and security technology solutions company, from October 2017 through June 2018; PRGX Global, Inc., a private provider of recovery audit and spend analytics services, from February 2013 to March 2021; Spark Networks, a private operator of premium online dating sites and mobile applications, from July 2021 to February 2024; and Air Methods Corp., a private air medical transportation and air tourism company, from March 2016 through April 2017. Mr. Whitters has also been an advisor or board member of several private companies. Mr. Whitters holds a B.A. in Accounting from Luther College.
As a former Chief Financial Officer with significant public company governance experience in the medical technology and medical device industry, Mr. Whitters brings to our Board extensive experience in finance, accounting, public company governance, operations and strategy.
Beverly A. Huss has served as a member of our Board since January 2018. From January 2021 to July 2022, Ms. Huss served as the Chief Executive Officer of Pagonia Medical, Inc. (“Pagonia”), a private company focused on creating a novel non-invasive device for the preservation of tissue following a heart attack, stroke, traumatic brain injury and other medical conditions. From September 2013 until December 2020, she served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Qool Therapeutics, Inc. (“Qool”), formerly Thermocure, Inc., a private company focused on temperature management therapies. Prior to joining Qool, Ms. Huss was President and Chief Executive Officer at start-up medical device company Vibrynt, Inc., and held multiple senior level leadership positions at Guidant Corporation, a public company that designs and manufactures cardiovascular products, including, most recently President, Endovascular Solutions, Vice President, Global Marketing, Vascular Intervention and Vice President of the Stent Business Unit. Ms. Huss has served on the board of directors of Vicarious Surgical Inc., a public medical robotics company, since October 2022; Infusystems Holdings, Inc, a national healthcare service provider since May 2024; Iridex Corporation, a public medical device company, since March 2022; and Ancora Heart, Inc., a privately-held medical device company developing heart failure treatments, since June 2021. Her prior private company board experience includes Pagonia, Coala Life, Inc., Artes Medical, Inc., Madorra Inc., Wright Medical Group, Inc., and Dade Behring Holdings, Inc. Ms. Huss holds a M.S. in technology management from Pepperdine University and a B.S. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Illinois. Ms. Huss has National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) certification.
As a former Chief Executive Officer with more than 25 years of management experience in the medical device industry, and a current and former member of several public and private company boards with two decades of board experience, Ms. Huss brings to our Board extensive experience in the medical device industry, including experience in the areas of business operations, management and corporate governance.
Mika Nishimura has served as a member of our Board since August 2021. Since 2011, Ms. Nishimura has served as an Operational Partner with Gilde Healthcare Partners, a life-science focused venture fund. From 2015 to 2020, Ms. Nishimura served as Vice President of Commercialization at nVision Medical Corporation, an early clinical-stage medical device company acquired by Boston Scientific. Previously, she served as Vice President, Commercial Development at Auxogyn, Inc., a private medical technology company, acquired by Progyny, Inc. Earlier in her career, Ms. Nishimura served as Vice President of International Sales Operations and Marketing at ev3 Inc., a provider for specialists treating a wide range of vascular diseases and disorders, where she held P&L responsibilities for the emerging markets. She has also served as a board member of SI-BONE, Inc., a public medical device company dedicated to solving musculoskeletal disorders of the sacropelvic anatomy, since
