Dr. Knudson is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of EnteroMedics Inc. He has served as a partner of an early stage venture capital firm and as President of Johnson and Johnson Professional Diagnostics, a Johnson and Johnson Company, following Johnson and Johnson's (NYSE:JNJ) 1986 acquisition of Arden Medical Systems, a company he founded in 1983. He held positions in Research and Development management at Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. (CPI-Guidant) and was a member of the faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine. He was the recipient of an Individual Post-doctoral Fellowship Award from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Knudson received the Ph.D. degree in physiology from Washington State University and a B.S. degree in biology from Pacific Lutheran University. He holds numerous United States patents. He serves or has served on boards of several companies, both public and private. Dr. Knudson was elected to membership in Sigma Xi, the scientific research honor society of North America in 1975 and is a Fellow of the American Heart Association.
Gregory S. Lea
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Greg S. Lea has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since May 21, 2007. Prior to joining us, Mr. Lea served as Chief Financial Officer of Pemstar Inc. from July 2002 through January 2007 when it was acquired by Benchmark Electronics, Inc. Mr. Lea also served as a director of Pemstar from April 2001 through January 2007 and held the position of Corporate Controller from April 2002 through July 2002. From 1993 to April 2002, Mr. Lea served as a corporate Vice President for Jostens Corporation, a commemorative and affiliation products manufacturer, serving most recently as corporate Vice President-Business Ventures. Prior to that, Mr. Lea held several financial management and administrative positions at IBM 69 Corporation from 1974 to 1993 and was President and a director of the Ability Building Center, Inc. from 1981 to 1993. Mr. Lea holds a B.S. in Accounting/Business Management from Minnesota State University, Mankato
Adrianus (Jos) Donders
Senior Vice President of Operations
Adrianus (Jos) Donders has served as our Senior Vice President of Operations since April 2005. From September 2003 to April 2005, Mr. Donders was Director Communication Systems Engineering for Medtronic USA. From June 2000 to August 2003, Mr. Donders served as Director Clinical Study Management and Research and Development Europe for Medtronic Europe. Mr. Donders received a degree equivalent to a Masters of Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology Eindhoven Netherlands
Katherine Tweden Ph.D.
Vice President, Research and Clinical
Katherine S. Tweden, Ph.D. has served as our Vice President of Research since January 2003. From November 2002 to January 2003, Dr. Tweden was a consultant to Venturi Group, a medical device incubator company. From January 2003 through August 2004, Dr. Tweden worked for Venturi Development Inc. as a consultant to us. From July 1997 to October 2002, Dr. Tweden held positions including Director of Research and Vice President of Research for HeartStent Corporation. Dr. Tweden received a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Gustavus Adolphus College and a Masters degree and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Iowa State University.
Richard R. Wilson M.D.
Interim Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Wilson is the Interim Chief Medical Officer of EnteroMedics Inc., with responsibility for the company medical and clinical strategies. He has served as medical director for three pharmaceutical and drug delivery companies and has numerous journal publications. Dr. Wilson has been directly involved for over twenty-five years in the research, development, global registration and commercialization of health care products. He has consulted for the past ten years with medical device companies and with law firms involved in health care litigation. Dr. Wilson holds a B.A. from North Park College and an M.D. from Northwestern University, both in Chicago.
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