Board of Directors

Mr. Burns has served as our chief executive officer and as a member of our Board of Directors since March 2002. In December 2021, he was appointed Chairman of the Board. He also previously served as our president from March 2002 to March 2022. Mr. Burns was also a founder and member of the board of directors of DOSE Medical Corporation (acquired by Glaukos), serving as its chairman of the board from October 2009 until June 2019 and its chief executive officer and president from March 2010 until June 2015. Mr. Burns has a proven record of building successful medical device and pharmaceutical businesses and creating successful new markets in ophthalmology. He has raised nearly $400 million in enterprise capital in private and public offerings and has led and helped build multiple start-up companies. Mr. Burns has more than 25 years of direct ophthalmic management experience, including over 20 years of general management experience across a broad range of ophthalmic medical devices and pharmaceuticals, drug delivery technologies, surgical products and over-the-counter products. Prior to joining our Company, Mr. Burns led Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (acquired by OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) as its president and chief operating officer and as a director. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Burns served as senior vice president and general manager of Chiron Vision Corporation (acquired by Bausch & Lomb, Inc.), and then as vice president, global strategy and general manager, refractive surgery, of Bausch & Lomb from 1998 to 2000. In October 2020, Mr. Burns joined the board of directors of Pulmonx Corporation (Nasdaq: LUNG). He served on the board of directors of Avedro from July 2018 until his resignation on August 6, 2019, prior to its acquisition by Glaukos. Mr. Burns has also served as an entrepreneur in residence at Versant Ventures Management, LLC. Mr. Burns received a B.A. from Yale University.

Mr. Foley has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2014 and was appointed Lead Independent Director in December 2021. He is currently the president and chief executive officer of Revance Therapeutics, Inc., a position to which he was appointed in October 2019 after serving on the board of directors since 2017. Previously, Mr. Foley was the chairman, president and chief executive officer of ZELTIQ Aesthetics, Inc., a medical technology company, prior to its acquisition by Allergan plc in April 2017. Before becoming ZELTIQ’s chief executive officer in 2012, Mr. Foley served on its board of directors and held the position of executive chairman from July 2009 to May 2010. Mr. Foley also served as executive chairman at Onpharma Inc. from August 2009 until its acquisition by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. in March 2014. Mr. Foley also served as a managing director at RWI Ventures, Inc. from 2004 to 2018, where he focused on healthcare investments. Prior to this, Mr. Foley held a variety of operating roles in large, public companies and venture backed startups including United States Surgical Corporation, Guidant Corporation, Devices for Vascular Intervention, Inc. (acquired by Eli Lilly and Company), Perclose, Inc. (acquired by Abbott Laboratories) and Ventrica, Inc. (acquired by Medtronic, Inc.) where he was the founder and chief executive officer. Mr. Foley has over 25 years of medical device operating, investment and chief executive officer experience. Mr. Foley holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.

Ms. Weisner has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2014. From 2011 to 2019, she served as corporate vice president, general counsel of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation. From 2009 to 2010, she was engaged in private practice and served as legal advisor to public pharmaceutical and medical device companies located in Southern California. Prior to this, from 2002 to 2009, Ms. Weisner served in a number of positions at Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (acquired by Abbott Laboratories), including corporate vice president, general counsel and secretary; executive vice president, administration, general counsel and secretary; and executive vice president, administration and secretary. From 1998 to 2002, Ms. Weisner served as corporate counsel and assistant secretary; and then vice president, assistant general counsel and assistant secretary at Allergan, Inc. Ms. Weisner currently serves on the board of directors for Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. and Lensar, Inc. Ms. Weisner holds a B.A. from California State University, Fullerton, a J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and began her legal career as an associate at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP.

Mr. Hoffmeister has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2014. He served as the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Life Technologies Corporation, a global life sciences company, prior to its acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. in February 2014. From October 2004 to November 2008, he served as chief financial officer of Invitrogen Corporation, which merged with Applied Biosystems Inc. in November 2008 to form Life Technologies Corporation. Before joining Invitrogen, Mr. Hoffmeister spent 20 years with McKinsey & Company as a senior partner serving clients in the healthcare, private equity and chemical industries on issues of strategy and organization. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Hoffmeister was the leader of McKinsey’s North American chemical practice. Mr. Hoffmeister currently serves on the boards of directors of Celanese Corporation, ICU Medical, Inc. and StepStone Group, Inc. Mr. Hoffmeister holds a B.S. from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Ms. Torres has served as a member of our Board of Directors since March 2021. She is currently chief executive officer of The Ignited Company, a Pennsylvania-based consulting firm she founded in 2017. From 2005 to 2017, she served in various senior leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson (J&J). From 2015 to 2017, she was chief strategy and transformation officer for J&J’s global medical device business, a $25 billion business with more than 50,000 employees. From 2011 to 2015, she was president of J&J McNeil Consumer Healthcare, where she led the recovery of OTC brands, including the iconic Tylenol portfolio, by transforming business operations, manufacturing, quality systems and commercialization approaches, and creating high levels of employee engagement across all functions of the business. From 2009 to 2011, she served as president of J&J Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Neuroscience, and from 2006-2009 she held various marketing positions at J&J. Ms. Torres was the sole recipient of the prestigious J&J HONOR award in 2016 for her work in diversity and inclusion, and she was named the 2015 Woman of the Year by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association. Before joining J&J, Ms. Torres built a successful, 14-year career at Eli Lilly and Company, where she focused on marketing and business unit management. In 2020, Ms. Torres joined the boards of venture-backed National Resilience, as well as Karuna Therapeutics (Nasdaq: KRTX) and Bluebird Bio (Nasdaq: BLUE). She is also the founder of The Mentoring Place, a nonprofit organization offering free executive mentoring to help women achieve their careers goals. Ms. Torres holds a B.S. in Psychology from Ball State University, a J.D. from Indiana University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Michigan Bar Association.

Dr. Kliman has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2007, with a brief hiatus from August 2019 through March 2020 relating to the company’s acquisition of Avedro, Inc. (an ophthalmic pharmaceutical and medical technology company for which Dr. Kliman also served on the board of directors). Dr. Kliman has been a partner of InterWest Partners, a venture capital firm, since 1996, and has been a managing director there since 1999. Dr. Kliman served on the board of directors of Epocrates, Inc. (acquired by athenahealth, Inc.) from 1999 to 2011, and IntraLase Corp. (acquired by Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.) from 2000 to 2007. From 1995 to 1996, Dr. Kliman was an investment manager at Norwest Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. From 1989 to 1992, Dr. Kliman served as an associate at TA Associates, a private equity investment firm. Dr. Kliman is a board-certified ophthalmologist and completed a retina research fellowship at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and residency training at Wills Eye Hospital. Dr. Kliman holds a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Since June 2020, Dr. Kliman has served on the board of directors for STAAR Surgical Company, and also sits on the board of Doximity, Inc, a board he joined in 2011. He also serves as a director on the executive board of ORBIS International, a global non-profit focused on preventing avoidable blindness.

Dr. Wen has served as a member of our Board of Directors since March 2021. Dr. Wen is an emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University School of Public Health. She is also a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, writing on health policy and public health, and an on-air commentator for CNN as a medical analyst. From 2015 to 2018, she was the health commissioner for the city of Baltimore, where she led the nation’s oldest continuously operating health department to combat the opioid epidemic and improve maternal and child health. From 2013 to 2015, Dr. Wen served as director of patient-centered care research in the department of emergency medicine at George Washington University, and authored a critically-acclaimed book on patient advocacy. She has extensive experience on boards in nonprofit and governmental sectors and with venture-backed health innovation companies, and is currently on the board of the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Baltimore Community Foundation, and the advisory board of the Behavioral Health Group. She has also been a global health fellow at the World Health Organization, a consultant with the China Medical Board, the president of Planned Parenthood and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Wen’s work has been recognized by numerous professional organizations, including as one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 50 Physician-Executives, and, in 2019, she was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. She holds a B.S. from California State University, Los Angeles, an M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine and two M.Sc.s from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She completed her residency training at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School.

Mr. Stapley has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2014. He is CEO and member of the board of directors of Veracyte Inc., a global diagnostics company he joined in June 2021. Prior to joining Veracyte, he served as CEO of Helix, a population genomics company, since April 2019. Prior to Helix, Mr. Stapley was the executive vice president, strategy and corporate development at Illumina, Inc., where he was responsible for corporate strategy, corporate and business development and global infrastructure, from 2017 to January 2019. Previously, Mr. Stapley served as Illumina’s chief administrative officer, senior vice president and chief financial officer. He was also a member of Illumina’s executive management team, which is responsible for directing all aspects of the company’s strategy, planning and operations. Before joining Illumina, from 2009 to 2012, Mr. Stapley was senior vice president, finance at Pfizer Inc. and was responsible for global financial processes and systems, leading integration efforts in both the Wyeth Ltd. and King Pharmaceutical, Inc. acquisitions and providing oversight to the company’s largest technology investment program. Prior to Pfizer, he served in a variety of senior finance roles at Alcatel-Lucent, including Americas chief financial officer. He also worked as finance director and controller for several groups at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. He began his career as an Auditor at Coopers & Lybrand. He holds a B.Sc. (Honors) from The University of Reading (England) and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.