TRYTON MEDICAL - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Managing Director of Canepa Healthcare

Alejandro is a Managing Director of Canepa Healthcare, where he oversees the Canepa Advanced Healthcare Fund's strategy and investments. Alejandro serves on the Board of Directors of bioTheranostics, Tryton Medical, Virgin Mobile Latin America, WAU and Mishu Music.

Job Titles:

• Chief Financial Officer
• Member of the Management Team

Brett Farabaugh has a diverse background working with entrepreneurial companies in the public and private arenas. Prior to Tryton Medical, Brett held the position of chief financial officer for StrikeIron, Inc., a venture-backed web-based data delivery company. Prior to StrikeIron, Brett served as chief financial officer of Icoria, Inc. (formerly Paradigm Genetics, Inc.), a publicly traded biotech company acquired by Clinical Data, Inc. in 2005. Brett also held the role of vice president of finance for Nuada Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to joining Nuada Pharmaceuticals, he served for 12 years in various positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), most recently as senior manager of the global technology industry group. Brett's experience includes financial management, analysis and reporting, initial public offerings and other exit strategies, extensive due diligence related to investment and acquisitions and fundraising in both the public and private markets. He earned his degree in Accounting from the University of Virginia.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member of the Management Team
• President

Job Titles:

• Member of the Management Team
• Vice President, Regulatory & Quality
• VP Regulatory, Quality & Clinical

Douglas Ferguson has more than 20 years of medical device experience, working in the areas of regulatory and clinical affairs, compliance, research and development, and quality assurance. Douglas has brought a wide variety of products from early development to commercialization via simple and complex regulatory/clinical pathways to gain worldwide regulatory approvals. Prior to joining Tryton, Douglas held positions at Becton Dickinson and Company, Boston Scientific Corporation, and C.R. Bard, Inc. While at Boston Scientific Corporation, Douglas spearheaded the effort to bring the company's first drug eluting stent to worldwide markets, starting at the time of the first-in-man trial and serving as the principal liaison with the FDA and European notified body in obtaining approvals for this combination product. He also played a significant role in finalizing the company's overall approach to creating global regulatory/clinical strategies, incorporating risk identification and minimization to facilitate timely approvals. Douglas holds a B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University and an M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member of the Management Team
• Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine / Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center

Dr. Aaron V. Kaplan is Professor of Medicine and of Community & Family Medicine and Director, Dartmouth Device Development Symposia at Dartmouth Medical School and Director of Research, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Kaplan supervises cardiology fellows, chairs the Dartmouth Device Development Symposia and lectures regularly at the Tuck School. Prior to joining the Dartmouth Faculty, Dr. Kaplan was director of Interventional Cardiology at the Palo Alto VA and served on the faculty at Stanford. Dr. Kaplan has more than 40 publications and is on the editorial board of Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention. Dr. Kaplan has been an active medical device entrepreneur for more than 15 years and has been on the founding team of a number of venture-backed medical device companies including LocalMed and Perclose. In addition, Dr. Kaplan has consulted to NMT Medical, Guidant Corporation, Johnson & Johnson and was an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Three Arch Partners. Dr. Kaplan has authored 18 U.S. Patents. He received a B.S. from Tufts University, M.D. at Wake Forest University, medical training at Northwestern University and cardiology training at Stanford University.

Job Titles:

• Chief Operating Officer
• Co - Founder
• Member of the Management Team

Richard Davis is an innovator and business professional who has invented and launched several novel medical device products while creating the supporting business infrastructure. Leveraging over 20 years of medical device experience during which he strategically innovated and managed intellectual property. As a business leader he has established clinical and marketing pathways, quality systems, supplier networks, and operations to foster rapid development of new products. Prior to joining Tryton, Richard held positions at Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson company, and was one of the co-founders of OrbusNeich. While at Cordis he let a team of specialists from clinical research, regulatory affairs, product development and manufacturing for the development of novel coronary and peripheral stents. In addition, during his tenure there he was responsible for transferring technology from plants in New Jersey and Miami to the Netherlands. During his eight years at OrbusNeich, Richard was instrumental to all aspects of the company's development. He founded and directed the company's European operations, including the design and formation of manufacturing facilities, sales and marketing, regulatory affairs, and clinical research groups. Richard holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Florida International University. Richard is co-author on numerous peer-reviewed publications in the field of coronary intervention and holds over 10 patents in the area of intravascular medical devices.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• RiverVest Venture Partner
• Managing Director and Co - Founder of River

Jay Schmelter is a managing director and co-founder of RiverVest. He focuses on company formation and venture investing in the medical device sector. Jay has extensive experience in life science venture capital, finance, and industry. Before co-founding RiverVest, he was a principal at Crescendo Ventures, a global venture capital fund, where he led investments for the firm's life science division. At Crescendo, he was involved with numerous portfolio companies and founded TissueLink Medical. Prior to his transition to venture capital, Jay was a medical devices research analyst at Piper Jaffray, where his research coverage focused on cardiovascular-related medical device stocks. He was also a marketing manager for Medtronic, with responsibility for two successful product launches and the marketing activities of two of Medtronic's U.S. cardiac surgery-related businesses. He received a B.A. in accounting from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Job Titles:

• Marketing and Communications Manager
• Member of the Management Team
• Business & Operations Manager

Judy Gonzalez has a diverse background with over 15 years of experience working in start-ups and 10 years specific to the medical device industry. Prior to Tryton Medical, Judy worked for Oriel Therapeutics and Kos Pharmaceuticals where she oversaw daily business and facility operations, human resource, IT, event planning, marketing and other special projects. Judy supports the company's sales and marketing initiatives and leads the communication, digital marketing and social media efforts. Judy holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from State University of New York at Fredonia.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Management Team
• QA / QC Director

Michael Healy has more than 30 years of medical device experience encompassing development, manufacturing, distribution and quality. Throughout his career he has implemented several FDA and ISO compliant quality systems for manufacturers of Class I, II and III medical devices. Prior to joining Tryton, Michael held positions at Marquette Medical, GE Medical, Hill-Rom, Cook Endoscopy, Teleflex and provided Quality System consulting to Boston Scientific Corporation. During his time with these medical device companies Michael held responsibility for all aspects of the quality system and functioned as the Management Representative. Michael has been instrumental at resolving FDA and ISO issues at these companies. Michael earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering. Additionally he holds Six Sigma certification from GE Medical along with Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence certification, Quality Auditor certification and Biomedical Auditor certification from American Society for Quality (ASQ).

Job Titles:

• Member of the Management Team
• Senior Manager
• International Sales & Marketing Manager

Pieter Buyl is a senior manager with over 20 years of experience in interventional cardiology, vascular and cardiac surgery markets. Prior to Tryton, Pieter held several sales and marketing management positions at St. Jude Medical and Boston Scientific. He worked with and led multidisciplinary and multinational teams in the development and implementation of sales and marketing strategies in international environments.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors