About Us
Management Team
- M Pauliina Margolis, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Scientific Affairs
- George Quinoy, Executive Vice President, Global Sales
- Michel E. Lussier, Group President, Advanced Imaging Systems, Clinical & Scientific Affairs, and Europe, Africa, and Middle East Operations
- Junichi Osawa, President and Managing Director, Volcano Japan
- Joseph Burnett, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Functional Measurement and IGT
- Darin Lippoldt, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
- David Sheehan, President of Operations, IVUS and Systems
- John Dahldorf, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
- Scott Huennekens, President and Chief Executive Officer
Pauliina Margolis has served as our Chief Medical Officer since January 2009 and Vice President of Scientific Affairs since June 2006. Dr. Margolis served as our Medical Director from January 2002 to January 2009. Starting in January 2000, she worked with several start-up, venture capital, and larger companies in Silicon Valley as a medical consultant or director. Dr. Margolis has over 100 original scientific publications and has written several book chapters on cardiology. She has internal medicine specialty from University of Helsinki, Finland, a Ph.D. 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 Early Business Development training from Stanford Business School.
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George Quinoy has served as our Executive Vice President of Global Sales since December 2008, and our Senior Vice President of Global Sales since July 2003. From July 2003 to December 2007, Mr. Quinoy also served as our General Manager for Volcano Japan and Asia Pacific. From August 2001 to July 2003, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Jomed, Inc., a medical technology company. From August 1997 to September 2000, Mr. Quinoy served as Vice President of Sales for AVE, Inc., and then Medtronic AVE, Inc. post-acquisition. Prior to Medtronic, he spent a decade as a Sales Executive for ACS/Guidant. Mr. Quinoy received a B.S. in Public Relations from the University of Florida.
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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.
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Junichi Osawa has served as President and Managing Director of Volcano Japan since November 2005. Mr. Osawa comes to Volcano with over 25 years of experience in the medical device industry. He spent almost two decades with General Electric's Yokogawa Medical Systems, Tokyo as Managing Director for Diagnostic Ultrasound and CT Imaging business and Global Ultrasound Business as Vice President Asia Pacific. From April 2000 to March 2005, 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 received a B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Aoyama Gakuin University School of Technology and Science in Tokyo, Japan.
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Joe Burnett has served as Executive Vice President of Marketing since March 2010. Prior to this role, he was Vice President of Global Marketing, and the Business Unit leader for both the Image Guided Therapy and the Functional Measurement Businesses. Mr. Burnett joined Volcano in November 2004 and has held numerous Product Development, Marketing, Training and Education roles over the past six years. Prior to joining Volcano, he was an engineer and marketing manager at Guidant from September 1999 to November 2004. Mr. Burnett received a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
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Darin Lippoldt has served as our Senior Vice President and General Counsel since August 2010. From November 2003 until he joined Volcano, Mr. Lippoldt served as Associate General Counsel at Amylin Pharmaceuticals. He previously practiced corporate and securities law with the law firms of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP and Matthews and Branscomb, P.C. Mr. Lippoldt received a B.B.A. in Finance, an M.A. in International Relations, and a J.D. from St Mary’s University.
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David Sheehan has served as President of the IVUS and FM Business Units since March 2010. From June 2008 to March 2010, he served as an Executive Vice President, and has had our wholly-owned subsidiary Volcano Japan KK reporting into him since June 2008. From May 2005 to May 2008, Mr. Sheehan was a consultant or CEO for various start-up companies in the San Diego area. From September 2000 to April 2005, Mr. Sheehan held positions at Digirad Corporation, a venture backed medical imaging company he took public, where he most recently served as the President and Chief Executive Officer, and previously as 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 received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.
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John Dahldorf has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Secretary since July 2003. From November 2001 to March 2002, he 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. He received a B.B. in Finance and an M.B.A. from Western Illinois University.
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Scott Huennekens has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since April 2002. From January 2000 to March 2002, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Digirad Corporation, a medical imaging company. Mr. Huennekens is a member of the Board of Directors for Volcano Corporation, the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA), and BIOCOM. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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