Ms. Robertson has served as Chair of our board of directors since March 2023, and as a member of our board of directors since January 2019. Ms. Robertson is a founder and General Partner at Versant Ventures where she has specialized in investing in the areas of medical devices and diagnostics since 1999. In addition, through Longridge Business Advisors, she has provided business advisory services and board services since April 2017. Prior to Versant, she served as Senior Vice President at Chiron Diagnostics, a division of Chiron Corporation, where she had responsibility for the critical care business unit in addition to leading the division’s business development efforts. Prior to joining Chiron, Ms. Robertson was a co-founder and Vice President at Egis, a consumer products company, and held senior management positions in operations and finance at Lifescan, a Johnson & Johnson Company. Ms. Robertson holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.
Mr. Allen has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2007. He previously served as Lead Independent Director from March 2019 to February 2023, and as Chair of our board of directors from August 2007 to January 2013 and from January 2016 to February 2019. Mr. Allen is directly engaged in the diabetes community through his personal involvement with JDRF, a nonprofit diabetes research organization, and the Mary & Dick Allen Diabetes Center at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian. Mr. Allen served as a member of the International Board of Directors of JDRF from July 2008 to June 2014, and as its Chair from July 2012 to June 2014. Mr. Allen has more than 50 years of experience in the health care industry and was previously the President of DIMA Ventures, Inc., a private investment firm providing seed capital and board-level support for start-up companies in the healthcare field. He was a co-founder and Vice President of Caremark, Inc., a home infusion therapy company later acquired by Baxter International. He was also a co-founder and director of Pyxis Corporation, later acquired by Cardinal Health, Inc. Mr. Allen received a B.S. (cum laude) in Industrial Administration from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he served on the faculty as a Lecturer in Strategic Management for 13 years.
Mr. Blickenstaff has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2007. From March 2020 to February 2023 he served as Chair of our board of directors, after holding the position of Executive Chair since March 2019. Prior to serving as Executive Chair, Mr. Blickenstaff served as our President and Chief Executive Officer from September 2007 to March 2019. He has been a member of our board of directors since September 2007. Prior to joining us, Mr. Blickenstaff served as Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Biosite Incorporated, a provider of medical diagnostic products, from 1988 until its acquisition by Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. in June 2007. Mr. Blickenstaff previously served as a director of Medivation, Inc., a biotechnology company, from 2005 to 2016, until its acquisition by Pfizer, and as a director of DexCom, Inc. (Nasdaq: DXCM), a provider of continuous glucose monitoring systems, from June 2001 to September 2007. Mr. Blickenstaff serves as a director and member of the compensation and audit committees of Nuvation Bio Inc. (NYSE: NUVB), an oncology biopharmaceutical therapy company. Mr. Blickenstaff was formerly a certified public accountant and has more than 20 years of experience overseeing the preparation of financial statements. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Loyola University, Chicago, and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business, Loyola University, Chicago.
Dr. McGroddy-Goetz has served on our board of directors since June 2020. She has more than 25 years of experience leading global teams across business development, strategy, research and development, and product management. She has commercialized pioneering technologies spanning from microelectronics through cloud, advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, hardware, software, and middleware with an emphasis on healthcare and life sciences applications. From October 2018 through June 2021, Dr. McGroddy-Goetz served as the Global Head of Strategic Partnerships at Medidata Solutions, a Dassault Systemès Company, where she also concurrently held other strategy, alliances and marketing executive roles. Previously, she held various leadership positions at IBM beginning in 1992, and most recently was Vice President, Strategy and Innovation, IBM Watson Health. Dr. McGroddy-Goetz received a B.S. in Physics from SUNY Binghamton and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from Cornell University.
Mr. Sheridan has served on our board of directors since June 2019 and as our President and Chief Executive Officer since March 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Sheridan served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since April 2013. Prior to joining us, Mr. Sheridan served as Chief Operating Officer of Rapiscan Systems, Inc., a provider of security equipment and systems, from March 2012 to February 2013. Mr. Sheridan served as Executive Vice President of Research and Development and Operations for Volcano Corporation, a medical technology company, from November 2004 to March 2010. From May 2002 to May 2004, Mr. Sheridan served as Executive Vice President of Operations at CardioNet, Inc., a medical technology company, now operating as BioTelemetry, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAT). From March 1998 to May 2002, he served as Vice President of Operations at Digirad Corporation, a medical imaging company. Mr. Sheridan serves as a director of Acutus Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: AFIB), an arrhythmia management company. Mr. Sheridan holds a BS in Chemistry from the University of West Florida and an MBA from Boston University.
Mr. Sodhi has served on our board of directors since January 2021. He has more than 25 years of experience in global informatics, software service technology and ecommerce business solutions, across the healthcare, financial, and telecom industries. Previously he served as the President of ResMed’s software as a service (SaaS) business from July 2017 to August 2021 and as President of Healthcare Informatics (HI) leading the development of ResMed’s HI solutions and ResMed itself to its current standing as a global digital health leader, with an expanding portfolio of device- and SaaS-based offerings. He joined ResMed in 2012 through the acquisition of Umbian Inc. of which he was co-founder and President. Before ResMed and Umbian, Mr. Sodhi worked in the financial services industry, designing, developing and managing SaaS solutions. He was Senior Vice President of Business Development and Chief Technology Officer for Skipjack Financial Services from 2005 to 2009, and co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of TransActive Ecommerce Solutions from 2000 to 2005. Mr. Sodhi is on the board of directors of Forefront Dermatology, EyeCare Partners and NovaResp Technologies. Mr. Sodhi holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Mr. Twomey has served on our board of directors since July 2013. Mr. Twomey has served as a director and chair of the audit committee of Bionano Genomics (Nasdaq: BNGO), a life sciences genome analysis instrumentation company since July 2018. From March 1990 until his retirement in 2007, Mr. Twomey held various positions with Biosite, most recently serving as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer. From 1981 to 1990, Mr. Twomey worked for Ernst & Young LLP, where he served as an Audit Manager. He previously served as a director and chair of the audit committee for public companies, such as Senomyx and Cadence Pharmaceuticals, prior to their acquisitions. Mr. Twomey holds a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.