Board of Directors
Thomas E. Jamison has been a director of Uroplasty since August 2000. Mr. Jamison is a member of Fruth, Jamison & Elsass, PLLC, a business litigation firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Jamison served as an investment banker in the Corporate Finance Department of R.J. Steichen & Company. From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Jamison practiced law at Fruth & Anthony, P.A. in Minneapolis. As an investment banker for a regional broker dealer, Mr. Jamison worked with emerging companies to raise capital, analyzed their markets, their management and their business strategies and monitored their growth and business success. In addition to skills in these areas, Mr. Jamison's legal practice in business disputes, securities litigation, business valuation, and contract disputes allows him to assist us in business negotiations and to identify and evaluate the potential litigation risks we face.
Lee A. Jones has been a director of Uroplasty since August 2006. Ms. Jones is the Founder, President and CEO of MikrobEX, Inc. Other recent positions include CEO-in-Residence at the University of Minnesota Venture Center and Chief Administrative Officer of the Schulze Diabetes Institute of the University of Minnesota. She has more than 25 years of healthcare and medical device industry experience. From 1997 to 2005, she served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Inlet Medical, Inc. (a Cooper Surgical company since November 2005), specializing in minimally interventional laparoscopic products. Prior to joining Inlet, she had a 14-year career at Medtronic, Inc. where she held various technical and operating positions, most recently serving as Director, General Manager of Medtronic Urology/Interstim division. Ms. Jones also served as a member of the board of directors of BioHeart, Inc. until June 2010. Ms. Jones has specialized knowledge of our industry, in operating a company in the urology device business and as an executive officer of a medical products company.
David B. Kaysen has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director since May 2006. From July 2005 to May 2006, Mr. Kaysen served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Advanced Duplication Services, LLC, a privately-held replicator and duplicator of optical media. Between December 2002 and June 2005, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Diametrics Medical, Inc., then a publicly-traded manufacturer and marketer of critical care blood analysis systems that provide continuous diagnostic results at point of care. From 1992 to 2002, Mr. Kaysen served as Chief Executive Officer, President and a director of Rehabilicare Inc., then a publicly-traded manufacturer and marketer of electromedical rehabilitation and pain management products for clinician, home and industrial use. Mr. Kaysen's extensive experience as an executive officer of publicly traded medical device companies, as a director of public companies, and as a sales manager of multi-national medical product companies, as well as his significant knowledge of our operations as our Chief Executive Officer, make him an essential member of our Board.
Rob Kill has been a director of Uroplasty since December 2010. He has served as the President since 2007, and CEO and a Board member since 2009, of Virtual Radiologic Corporation, a national radiology organization that uses technology to enhance radiologic practice. Prior to joining Virtual Radiologic, Mr. Kill was President of Physicians Systems for Misys Healthcare Systems, a provider of clinical and practice management software applications to physician practices, group practices, health systems and managed services organizations. Before joining Misys Healthcare Systems in 2002, Mr. Kill was Executive Vice President of Entertainment Publications, Inc., where he was employed from 1996 through 2001, and Vice President of Operations for Baxter Healthcare, where he was employed from 1986 through 1996. Mr. Kill brings to our board substantial experience and insight in executive management of rapidly growing public companies, particularly companies focused on healthcare.
R. Patrick Maxwell, a lawyer, has served as a director of our company since April 1994 and was the Chairman of our Board between June 2006 and 2011 . Mr. Maxwell has over 30 years of experience as a turnaround management specialist, an entrepreneur and executive in both the business and non-profit sectors. He has served as Chief Financial Officer of Tele Resources, Inc. since October 1996. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Entronix Inc., Northern Supply, Inc., and Telnet Systems, Inc. He also previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Magnum Tire Corporation, Midwest Legal Services, Inc. and Templeton and Associates, Inc. Mr. Maxwell serves on the board of directors of Tele Resource, Inc., and Telnet Services, Ltd., a New Zealand company. Mr. Maxwell brings to our board not only extensive financial and executive management expertise, but experience with financial restructuring and, importantly, the legal requirements applicable to various businesses.
James P. Stauner has been a director of Uroplasty since August 2006 was was appointed the Chairman of our Board in 2012. Mr. Stauner has over 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Since July 2005, he has been an Operating Partner with Roundtable Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused on the healthcare industry. Prior to joining Roundtable Healthcare Partners, Mr. Stauner held various positions between 1999 and 2005 at Cardinal Health, Inc., most recently as President of the Manufacturing Business Groups and a member of the Senior Management Operating Committee. Mr. Stauner has extensive knowledge of the healthcare industry and of the characteristics sought by a private equity firm for investment in the healthcare industry, and experience in operating and managing a medical products business and in finance.
Sven A. Wehrwein has been a director of Uroplasty since August 2006. He has over 35 years of experience in accounting, corporate finance and investment banking. Mr. Wehrwein, a CPA (inactive), started his career as an auditor with Coopers & Lybrand. After receiving his master's of science in management from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Wehrwein spent 14 years as an investment banker with Dean Witter, Drexel Burnham Lambert and Wessels, Arnold & Henderson. From 1995 to 1999, he served as Chief Financial Officer of two public companies. Since 1999, he has provided financial-consulting services to emerging growth companies. Mr. Wehrwein serves on the board of directors of Image Sensing Systems, Inc., SPS Commerce, Inc., and Synovis Life Technologies, Inc., all of which are publicly held companies. Mr. Wehrwein also served on the board of Compellent Technologies, Inc. from April 2007 until its acquisition by Dell Inc. in February 2011, and on the board of Vital Images, Inc. from May 1997 until its acquisition by Toshiba Medical Systems Corp. in June 2011. Within the last five years, Mr. Wehrwein also served as a director of six mutual funds in the Van Wagoner group. Mr. Wehrwein brings to our board extensive experience as a public company director, both management and auditing experience in financial accounting, considerable experience in investment banking, and management and board experience with multiple companies in the medical-products industry.
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