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Led by a strong, experienced leadership team dedicated to developing and delivering leading-edge technologies for the global surgical marketplace, NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi) is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA. The company has a strong global presence in over 38 countries with sales, distribution and repair facilities in Europe and Asia. The leadership team is comprised of industry veterans from the video signal processing technology, electronic displays, and medical devices with an average of more than fifteen years of experience.
Mr. John Murphy joined NDS Surgical Imaging in January 2008 where he serves as the Company’s President and CEO. Mr. Murphy has an extensive background in executive management, including President and CEO at Celerity, Inc. (a TPG portfolio company), Corporate EVP and COO at PerkinElmer, Inc., a role focusing on the Life and Analytical Sciences strategic business unit, as well as several years as President of the Optoelectronics division, and Vice President and General Management roles at Honeywell International and AlliedSignal, Inc. (now a part of Honeywell). Mr. Murphy holds a BSc. (Hons) in Computing Science from the University of Greenwich in London, an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an MBA in International Finance from Arizona State University.
Mr. James Ciardella joined NDS Surgical Imaging as Chief Financial Officer in 2004 and has over thirty-one years of industry experience. Prior to NDSsi, Mr. Ciardella was CFO, and subsequently, President and COO, at Dolch Computer Systems from 1990 to 2004. Before that, he served in various senior financial management roles at National Semiconductor and other privately-held companies. Mr. Ciardella holds a BS in Accounting from California State University at Chico.
Mr. Dhiraj Carumbaya joined NDS Surgical Imaging in 2006 and is responsible for marketing programs, product strategy and business development activities worldwide. He has over fifteen years of professional experience in the healthcare industry, primarily in Medical Imaging. Prior to NDSsi, he held executive and global management positions with GE Healthcare and Fujifilm Medical Systems. Mr. Carumbaya holds a BS in Instrumentation Technology and a Masters' in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University and is a certified six-sigma professional.
Ms. Trina Ciraulo has served as Vice President Operations of NDS Surgical Imaging since 1996, and is one of the original founders of the Company. Ms. Ciraulo brings over eighteen years industry experience. Prior to NDSsi, she held senior management positions with Dolch Computer Systems and Micronics in marketing, sales, and operations roles for several divisions, including a high-volume computer motherboard division, and an LCD display division.
Mr. Ron Hansen joined NDS Surgical Imaging in 2002. With more than thirty-one years of senior level industry experience with such leading companies as Applied Materials, GTE Sylvania and Candescent Technologies, Mr. Hansen has significant experience leading multi-disciplinary technical teams in a product management and development capacity. He is the holder of 20 US patents, and has 7 US patent applications pending. Mr. Hansen earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University and his MSEE from Santa Clara University, where he also completed advanced coursework in Technical Management.
Dr. Jeff Zhou joined NDS Surgical Imaging in 2008 as Vice President of Global Engineering. He brings over twenty-one years of experience and a track record of driving rapid new product development across global markets. Most recently, Dr. Zhou served as Vice President of Global Engineering Products at Solectron. Previous to that, he served over 15 years in Honeywell’s avionics and Industrial Control Solutions businesses in various management roles, including Vice President and General Manager for Honeywell’s Solid State Electronics Center, VP of Manufacturing and VP Lean/Six Sigma. Dr. Zhou completed his undergraduate degree in Shanghai, China and earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida. He has over 20 publications in his research field and has been awarded two US Patents.
Mr. Hee Kyung Kim came to NDS Surgical Imaging through the Planar Systems, Inc. Medical Business Unit acquisition, where he managed the Dome product line. Mr. Kim has over twenty-six years of experience in management roles within operations, manufacturing and engineering. In his most recent role at Planar, Mr. Kim was responsible for all phases of product development, electronics, design, project management, and quality of the Dome product line. He has also held management positions at E-Systems Medical Electronics, Aseco Corporation, and AMP Keyboard Technologies, Inc. Mr. Kim earned a BS in Operations Management and Mechanical Engineering from Boston University.
Mr. Steve Tomei has over twenty-one years of financial management experience and has been with NDS Surgical Imaging since 2007 as the Company’s Corporate Controller. Mr. Tomei’s prior experience includes Controller of ANTs Software, Corporate Controller for Transmeta Corporation, and Vice President, Corporate Controller at Riverdeep, Inc. He has experience as the Controller in public offerings such as Portal Software and BAAN. Steve is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an MBA in Finance from Illinois Benedictine University and a BA in accounting from Loyola University of Chicago.
Ms. Katia Bejan joined NDS Surgical Imaging in 2007 and is responsible for all human resources activities within the Company. She has over sixteen years of experience as a human resources professional among the medical device, manufacturing, and market research industries. Prior to NDSsi, Ms. Bejan has held human resource management positions at Arthrocare Corporation, Ball Screws & Actuators Inc. (a division of Danaher Corporation), and Dataquest (now a part of Gartner). Ms. Bejan holds a BS degree in business administration with a concentration in human resources management from California State University at Stanislaus.
In 2007, Mr. James Plewa joined NDS Surgical Imaging with over twenty-one years of experience in the healthcare industry. He brings extensive knowledge of general management, sales organizations and strategic sales channels to his position. Prior to NDSsi, Mr. Plewa served as Senior Vice President within sales and distribution for Cardinal Health, Vice President of Sales for Allegiance Healthcare Corporation, Vice President of Business Development for Baxter International and held similar positions with American Hospital Supply Corporation. He holds a BS in accounting from the School of Business at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is also a Director of Interplast.
Mr. Gregory Young has over twenty-six years of experience in sales and sales management developing business partnerships with major healthcare providers in medical/surgical, laboratory and alternate care distribution. Before NDS Surgical Imaging, Mr. Young served as Northern California Region Director at Cardinal Health for eight years, and prior to that, as Director at Allegiance Healthcare (acquired by Cardinal Health). Prior to that, he held management positions at Baxter Healthcare. Mr. Young earned a BA in Business Administration with a major in Marketing from Michigan State University.
Mr. Brent Michael came to NDS Surgical Imaging through the acquisition of the Planar Systems, Inc. Medical Business Unit. Mr. Michael has over eighteen years of experience in the Healthcare IT industry and brings a strong knowledge and understanding of the diagnostic imaging market. Prior to Planar, Mr. Michael held various leadership positions at GE Healthcare, working in their PACs and IT division. Prior to GE, Mr. Michael also worked in various sales and sales management capacities at Vitalworks, Inc. and Medfax Corporation. Mr. Michael received a BS in Business Administration from Appalachian State University.
Mr. Kees Poot joined NDS Surgical Imaging in 1997 and helped grow the Company with successful opening and running of the Company’s European office in The Netherlands that same year. Prior to starting up NDSsi’s European operations, Mr. Poot held various International management positions with Westinghouse Building Management Systems as Division Manager and at Honeywell Europe. Mr. Poot studied Electronics at the Royal Dutch Navy and Business Management at the London Business School.
Mr. Matt Fukuhara joined NDS Surgical Imaging in 2007 and has over eighteen years of experience in the display product market, including product design, technology development, and customer engineering and design. Mr. Fukuhara is responsible for the Company’s Japan operations, including sales and marketing in the region. Prior to NDSsi, he held management positions within customer engineering, marketing and sales at Sharp Corporation. Mr. Fukuhara also held management positions at Fujitsu Display Technologies Corporation and Fujitsu Limited.
Mr. David J. Zilberman joined NDS Surgical Imaging in 2008 as Legal Counsel and is responsible for the Company’s legal and corporate development functions. Mr. Zilberman was previously a corporate lawyer at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he represented domestic and international technology companies on a variety of corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and governance, venture capital financings, public offerings, and cross-border transactions. Mr. Zilberman holds a business degree and a law degree from The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya in Israel and a masters degree from University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. David Belluck is General Partner at Riverside Partners LLC and has 17 years of experience working with and investing in lower middle market companies. He has been a General Partner with Riverside Partners since 1992. Prior to Riverside, he worked at Monitor Group, a business strategy consulting firm. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Kingsley Montessori School and serves as Chair of the school's Capital Campaign. Mr. Belluck holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and a Master of Business Administration, with distinction, from Harvard Business School.
Mr. Berry has been an Operating Partner at Riverside Partners, a private equity firm, since 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Berry was President and Chief Operating Officer at Ultratech Stepper, Inc. (NASDAQ:UTEK), Director of International Operations at General Signal Corporation and Director of Marketing with Perkin Elmer Corporation, all providers of Semiconductor Manufacturing equipment. Mr. Berry began his career at Bell Laboratories. He serves on the Board of Directors of Rudolph Technologies (NASDAQ:RTEC), NDS Surgical Imaging and GEMCITY, a contract Manufacturing firm, as well as on the Board of Trustees of Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. Mr. Berry holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
Mr. Michael Clair has spent more than 25 years in successful operating roles with multiple Silicon Valley companies focused on wired and wireless voice and data networking technologies, network and Internet security, as well as router and network management software solutions. He was a co-founder and Senior VP of Marketing and Sales of SynOptics Communications which became Bay Networks, and had executive positions at Tymshare, and ROLM Corporation. He was Chairman of Intellisync for several years before it was sold to Nokia. For the past 12 years, Mr. Clair has been a technology investor, consultant and independent Board Member to Silicon Valley firms. Currently he is Chairman of Phoenix Technologies (NASDAQ:PTEC),and serves on the Board of Corefino, Inc. Mr. Clair also donates his time and serves on the California Board of the V Foundation for Cancer Research.
Mr. Steve Kaufman is an Operating Partner for Riverside Partners, a private equity firm. Previously, Mr. Kaufman was President and CEO, and earlier COO, of Avici Systems Inc. (now Soapstone Networks (NASDAQ:SOAP)), a telecommunications equipment company. Earlier, he worked at Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU)), in various general management roles, most recently serving as President of the Multiservice Core Networks division, a $2 billion business. Additionally Mr. Kaufman worked for Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) in various marketing management roles on the Pentium processor product family. He serves on the boards of Quantum Medical Imaging, Maxvision, SIXNET, and One Laptop Per Child. Mr. Kaufman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude, from Brown University, a Master of Business Administration degree, with distinction, from Harvard Business School, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Mr. Francis Lunger was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Millipore Corporation from 2002 to 2004 and served on the company’s Board of Directors from 2001 until March of 2008. Mr. Lunger joined Millipore in 1997 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and held several executive management positions, which, in addition to the above, included serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating officer from 2000 until 2001. Prior to joining Millipore, Mr. Lunger held executive management positions at Oak Industries, Inc., Nashua Corporation, and Raychem Corporation. He received a BS in Accounting from Gannon University. Mr. Lunger also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Landmark School in Pride’s Crossing, MA.
Mr. John Murphy joined NDS Surgical Imaging in January 2008 where he serves as the Company’s President and CEO. Mr. Murphy has an extensive background in executive management, including President and CEO at Celerity, Inc. (a TPG portfolio company), Corporate EVP and COO at PerkinElmer, Inc., a role focusing on the Life and Analytical Sciences strategic business unit, as well as several years as President of the Optoelectronics division, and Vice President and General Management roles at Honeywell International and AlliedSignal, Inc. (now a part of Honeywell). Mr. Murphy holds a BSc. (Hons) in Computing Science from the University of Greenwich in London, an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an MBA in International Finance from Arizona State University.
Mr. Carmen Piucci previously served as NDSsi’s President, CEO and Director since 1996, and is one of the original founders. Prior to NDSsi, he served as Vice President and General Manager of the display products business unit for Dolch Computer Systems. He also held positions with IBM in R&D in its Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Finlux Displays and Stanford’s Linear Accelerator. Mr. Piucci studied electrical engineering at Hofstra University.
Mr. Jeffrey Saper is currently Vice Chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the largest law firm in the Silicon Valley specializing in technology and emerging growth companies. He also serves as a member of the firm's Executive Management and Policy Committees. Mr. Saper specializes in public and private financings of technology and other emerging growth companies, as well as representation of leading investment banks and corporate issuers in connection with public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Saper received a BA from New York University with highest honors in history and a JD from New York University School of Law.
Ms. Deborah Widener has over twenty years experience as a senior executive in the financial services sector. She was a managing director at Adams Harkness where she ran their biotechnology banking and at Robertson, Stephens where she ran their retail consumer banking. As a banker, her background includes financings in the private and public debt and equity markets, sophisticated tax-driven transactions, multinational joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Widener also has extensive investing experience; in the venture community as a founding partner of Oasis Capital and with leverage buyouts as President of General Electric Capital’s Capital Market Group and as a managing director of Kidder Peabody’s merchant bank. She received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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