Richard W. Kramp was elected to our Board in August 2014.
He was the CEO and a director of Synovis Life Technologies, Inc., a diversified
medical device company, from January 2007 to February 2012. Synovis was publicly
traded until it was purchased by Baxter International, Inc. in February 2012.
Mr. Kramp served as President of Synovis from June 2006 to January 2007, and from
August 2004 to May 2006, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of
the former interventional business unit of Synovis.
Prior to joining Synovis, Mr. Kramp served as the President and Chief Operating
Officer of Medical CV, Inc., a medical-device company, and before that, as its
Vice President of New Product Development.
From 1988 to 2003, Mr. Kramp served as President and Chief Operating Officer,
and then President and CEO, as well as a director of ATS Medical, Inc. (now part
of Medtronic, Inc.).
Mr. Kramp served as National Sales Manager, then as Director of Sales and MarketingVice,and
then as President of Sales and Marketing for St. Jude Medical, Inc. (now part
of Abbott Laboratories) from 1978 to 1988. Prior to that, Mr. Kramp held engineering
positions with Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. (now part of Boston Scientific, Inc.).
He was also a director of Vascular Solutions, Inc.,
a publicly traded medical device company, from
May 2013 until its acquisition by Teleflex Corporation in February 2017. He previously
served on the board of Rochester Medical Corporation when it was a publicly held
medical device company.
Mr. Kramp holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette
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