James R. Tobin has served on our Board of Directors since August 2015 and is a member of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Compensation Committee. Mr. Tobin served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Scientific from March 1999 to July 2009. Before joining Boston Scientific, Mr. Tobin served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Biogen, Inc., from 1997 to 1998 and as its Chief Operating Officer from 1994 to 1997. Mr. Tobin also worked at Baxter International in various capacities from 1972 to 1994, including as its President and Chief Operating Officer from 1992 to 1994. Mr. Tobin currently serves as Chairman of the Board of TransMedics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMDX), a company specializing in technology for preservation of organs for transplant. He also serves on the board of directors of Lyra Therapeutics (NASDAQ: LYRA), a clinical-stage company developing medicines precisely designed to target ear, nose and throat (ENT) diseases, and Xenter, Inc., a privately held interventional cardiology medical device company. Mr. Tobin served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy from 1968 to 1972. Mr. Tobin holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. from Harvard College. Mr. Tobin is well qualified to serve on our Board of Directors and on our Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee for numerous reasons, including his decades of experience as a senior executive of large multinational healthcare and medical device companies, which includes his service as President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Scientific.