that integrated hardware, software, and AI. Dr. Ku’s experience includes scaling high-performance engineering organizations across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, with a focus on delivering integrated platforms in highly regulated markets. Dr. Ku holds a PhD in Engineering Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Oxford and an Executive Certificate in Managing Product Platforms from MIT.
Steven Cashman brings 25 years of sales and operational expertise and is an accomplished entrepreneur with extensive experience in healthcare. He has served as our Chief Business Officer since September 2024. In this capacity, Mr. Cashman oversees global sales, marketing, product and corporate strategy. Prior to joining Butterfly, from April 2021 to August 2023, Mr. Cashman was the President & CEO of Caption Health, a medical technology manufacturer, where he led the development and commercialization of the industry’s first AI-powered ultrasound platform, culminating in its acquisition by GE Healthcare in February 2023. Before Caption Health, from January 2018 to August 2020, he served as Chief Commercial Officer at InTouch Health, where he was responsible for domestic and global growth, product development, marketing, customer service, and clinical services. In addition to his executive roles, Mr. Cashman is actively involved in the startup community as an angel investor and board member. He currently serves on the boards of Vista.ai, Sovato, and PatientGenie.
Nicholas Caezza is an experienced legal executive with extensive experience in corporate governance, employment, litigation, and strategic transactional work. He joined Butterfly in February 2021 and has served in various roles within the legal function with increasing responsibility, most recently as our Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary since February 2024. In this capacity, Mr. Caezza provides strategic legal counsel to executive leadership and drives the company’s governance and general legal initiatives. Prior to joining Butterfly, Mr. Caezza was Regulatory Counsel at Columbia Care, Inc. (CEO: CBST), from September 2019 to February 2021, where he facilitated regulatory initiatives and supported various corporate and transactional strategies. Before Columbia Care, Inc., he worked as an attorney at American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT). Mr. Caezza holds a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies and Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Continuing Non-Employee Directors and Director Nominees
Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ph.D. is the founder of Legacy Butterfly and served as our Interim Chief Executive Officer from December 2022 to April 2023. Dr. Rothberg has been a member of our board of directors since February 2021 and served as the Chairperson of our board of directors from February 2021 to April 2023. Dr. Rothberg served as the Chairman of Legacy Butterfly’s board of directors from March 2014 to February 2021. He previously served as Legacy Butterfly’s Chief Executive Officer from March 2014 to April 2020, and as Legacy Butterfly’s President from March 2014 to April 2014. Dr. Rothberg is a scientist and entrepreneur who was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement, by President Obama for inventing and commercializing high-speed DNA sequencing. Dr. Rothberg is the founder of the 4Catalyzer medical technology incubator and the founder of its companies: Legacy Butterfly, AI Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly LAM Therapeutics, Inc.), Quantum-Si Incorporated (Nasdaq: QSI), Hyperfine, Inc. (Nasdaq: HYPR), including its wholly-owned subsidiaries Hyperfine Operations, Inc. (formerly Hyperfine, Inc.) and Liminal Sciences, Inc., Tesseract Health, Inc., Detect, Inc. (formerly Homodeus Inc.) and 4Bionics LLC. These companies focus on using inflection points in medicine, such as deep learning, next-generation sequencing, and the silicon supply chain, to address global healthcare challenges. Dr. Rothberg serves as Interim Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of the board of Quantum-Si Incorporated (Nasdaq: QSI) and Vice Chairman of Hyperfine, Inc. (Nasdaq: HYPR). Dr. Rothberg previously founded and served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Technology Officer of Ion Torrent Systems, Inc. from 2007 to 2010, and founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RainDance Technologies, Inc. from 2004 to 2009. From 1999 to 2007, Dr. Rothberg co-founded and served as Chairman of ClarifI, Inc., and from 1999 to 2006, he founded and served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of 454 Life Sciences Corporation (“454 Life Sciences”). With 454 Life Sciences, Dr. Rothberg brought to market the first new way to sequence genomes since Sanger and Gilbert won the Nobel Prize for their method in 1980. With 454 Life Sciences’ technology, Dr. Rothberg sequenced the first individual human genome, and with Svante Paabo he initiated the first large-scale effort to sequence ancient DNA (The Neanderthal Genome Project). Prior to 454 Life Sciences, Dr. Rothberg founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CuraGen Corporation from 1993 to 2004. His contributions to the field of genome sequencing include the first non-bacterial cloning method (cloning by limited dilution) and the first massively parallel DNA sequencing method (parallel sequencing by synthesis on a single substrate), concepts that have formed the basis for all subsequent next generation sequencing technologies. Dr. Rothberg is an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, is the recipient of The Wall Street Journal’s First Gold Medal for Innovation, SXSW Best in Show, Nature Methods First Method of the Year Award, the Connecticut Medal of Technology, the DGKL Biochemical Analysis Prize, and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Mount Sinai. Dr. Rothberg is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, is a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and an Adjunct Professor of Genetics at Yale University. Dr. Rothberg received his Ph.D., M.Phil., his M.S. in biology from Yale University and his B.S. in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Rothberg’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his significant scientific, executive and board leadership experience in the technology industry, as well as his knowledge of our business as Legacy Butterfly’s founder and former Interim Chief Executive Officer.
