Volcano

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 -  Management Team

Scott Huennekens, President and CEO

Scott Huennekens has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since April 2002. From January 2000 to March 2002, Mr. Huennekens served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Digirad Corporation, a medical imaging company. Mr. Huennekens holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

John Dahldorf, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary

John T. Dahldorf has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Secretary since July 2003. From November 2001 to March 2002, Mr. Dahldorf served as Chief Financial Officer of Digirad Corporation, a medical imaging company. From March 1999 to November 2001, Mr. Dahldorf served as the Finance Director of Arrow Electronics, Inc., a distributor of electronic components and computer products. Mr. Dahldorf holds a B.B. in Finance and an M.B.A. from Western Illinois University.

David Sheehan, President, IVUS and FM Business Units

David Sheehan has been at Volcano since June 2008. He has been President, IVUS and FM Business Units since March 2010. From June 2008 - February 2010, Mr. Sheehan served as an Executive Vice President, and Managing Director of our wholly owned subsidiary Volcano Japan KK. From May 2005 - May 2008, Mr. Sheehan was a consultant/CEO for various startups in the San Diego area. From September 2000 to April 2005, Mr. Sheehan was at Digirad Corporation, a venture backed medical imaging company he took public, were he most recently served as the President and Chief Executive Officer, and before that was President, Digirad Imaging Solutions. Prior to September 2000, he held jobs in Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Operations Management at Baxter and Haemonetics. Mr. Sheehan holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.

George Quinoy, Executive Vice President, Global Sales

Jorge J. Quinoy has served as our Vice President of Global Sales since July 2003. From August 2001 to July 2003, Mr. Quinoy served as the Vice President of Sales for Jomed, Inc., a medical technology company. From January 2001 to August 2001, Mr. Quinoy served as the Vice President of Sales for Altiva Corporation, a medical technology company. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Quinoy served as vice president of sales for Medtronic AVE, Inc. Mr. Quinoy holds a B.S. in Public Relations and Marketing from the University of Florida.

D. Geoffrey Vince, PhD, Vice President, Clinical Affairs & Advanced R&D

D. Geoffrey Vince has recently been announced as our Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Advanced R&D. From Jan 2005 to June 2006, Dr. Vince was Director of Research for Volcano. Prior to joining Volcano, he was an Associate Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Cleveland Clinic and is the senior inventor of VH™ IVUS. Dr. Vince holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Liverpool in the UK.

Michel E. Lussier, President EAME, India, Executive Vice President Clinical and Scientific Affairs

Michel E. Lussier has served as Managing Director of Volcano Europe since March 2006. From July 2002 to March 2006, Mr. Lussier served as our Vice President, General Manager of Europe, Africa and Middle East Operations. In February 2002, Mr. Lussier founded MedPole S.A./N.V., a European distribution incubator for medical device start up companies located in Brussels. From October 1998 to January 2002, Mr. Lussier served as the Vice President and General Manager, Europe of Novoste Corp., a medical technology company. Mr. Lussier holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Montreal and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.

M Pauliina Margolis, MD, PhD, Vice President, Scientific Affairs & Chief Medical Officer

M Pauliina Margolis has served as our Medical Director since January 2002 as well as Vice President of Scientific Affairs since June 2006. From January 2000 she worked with several start up, venture capital, and larger companies in the Silicon Valley, CA as a medical consultant or director. She has internal medicine specialty from University of Helsinki, Finland, PhD in cardiac physiology with post doctoral training in the University of Cincinnati on coronary ischemia, interventional cardiology training from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Stanford Business School on Early Business Development. She has over 50 original scientific publications and has written several book chapters on cardiology.

Junichi Osawa, President and Managing Director of Volcano Japan

President and Managing Director of Volcano Japan Mr. Osawa comes to Volcano with over 25 years of experience in the medical device industry. He spent almost two decades with GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Tokyo and GE's Global Ultrasound Business as Managing Director. More recently, Mr. Osawa worked at Medtronic, Inc. as the Managing Director of the vascular business in Japan, where he had responsibility of cross functional teams including marketing, sales, customer support, regulatory, clinical functions and distribution. Mr. Osawa graduated with a BS degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY, School of Technology and Science Tokyo, Japan.