Our Leadership and Advisors

Previous leadership roles include: EVP and President of Codman Specialty Surgical, a division of Integra LifeSciences; Corporate Vice President and President of International, Integra; President, Advanced Respiratory, Inc.

Previous leadership roles include: Senior Vascular Surgeon at Tufts Medical Center and the Benjamin Andrews Emeritus Professor and Chair of Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine

Previous leadership roles include CFO, Optum Care Solutions; CFO, Rally Health; SVP, Optum Corporate Finance; VP, Optum Operations Finance, and various leadership positions at Best Buy Co.

Previous leadership roles include CIO/CTO for multiple Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans; Senior Vice President, US Bank Technology and Operations Services (TOS); Vice President, Allianz Life Technology; Director, Best Buy Technology ; Manager/Consultant, IBM; Veteran, US Army Infantry Officer.

Previous leadership roles include: business segment CHRO at Optum and United Healthcare, Sr HR Business Partner at Target and Head of Total Rewards at Express Scripts.

Previous leadership roles include: Chief Marketing Officer, Cala Health; Vice President Solutions Marketing, ResMed

Previous leadership roles include: VP of Enabling Operations, House Calls Care Services, Optum; Vice President of Consulting & Training, Enterprise Performance, UnitedHealth Group; Executive Director, Revenue Management Systems, McKesson Corporation

Previous leadership roles include: Business Sales Leader for Philips Sleep and Respiratory Care, North America. Business Segment Leader, RespirTech, a division of Philips; VP of Key Accounts, Philips’ Sleep and Respiratory Care Division.

Previous leadership roles include: Vice President of Operations, Minnetronix Medical; Sr. Director of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston Scientific.

Previous leadership roles include: VP Global Quality and Regulatory, Heraeus Medical Components; VP Quality and Design Assurance, Vascular Solutions; Sr. Director Operations and Quality, ATS Medical

Previous leadership roles include: Director of Reimbursement, Advanced Respiratory; Commercial Litigator, Doherty Rumble and Butler

William W. Burke has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2015 and as Chairman of the Board since May 2021. Since November 2015, Mr. Burke has served as President of Austin Highlands Advisors, LLC, a provider of corporate advisory services. He served as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of IDEV Technologies, a peripheral vascular devices company, from November 2009 until the company was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in August 2013. From August 2004 to December 2007, he served as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of ReAble Therapeutics, a diversified orthopedic device company which was sold to The Blackstone Group in a going private transaction in 2006 and subsequently merged with DJO Incorporated in November 2007. Mr. Burke remained with ReAble until June 2008. From 2001 to 2004, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Cholestech Corporation, a medical diagnostic products company. Mr. Burke has served on the board of directors of numerous public and private company boards and currently serves on the board of directors of Adtalem Global Education and Ceribell, Inc. He previously served on the board of directors of Invuity, Inc. (acquired by Stryker Corp. in October 2018), LDR Holding Corporation (acquired by Zimmer Biomet in July 2016), and Medical Action Industries (acquired by Owens & Minor in October 2014).

Valerie L. Asbury has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2022. Ms. Asbury has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of LifeScan, Inc., a diagnostic systems manufacturer with products focusing on the diabetes market, since October 2018. Prior to October 2018, LifeScan was a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Ms. Asbury held various positions at Johnson & Johnson beginning in 1998, serving in various leadership roles of increasing responsibility across five different medical device and pharmaceutical divisions, including 10 years in the diabetes consumer medical device space, where she focused on strategic growth and talent development. Her most recent position at Johnson & Johnson was Global President, Diabetes Solutions from 2014 to 2018, including the Global LifeScan subsidiary until its sale in October 2018.

Sheri L. Dodd has served on our board since 2021. Ms. Dodd currently serves as President, Medtronic Canada at Medtronic plc. In her role she is responsible for all commercial activities related to the sale and distribution of the Medtronic portfolio in Canada. She joined Medtronic in March 2010 and has served in functional vice president positions including healthcare economics and market access; clinical research, health economics and policy; and general management positions for non-intensive diabetes therapies and telehealth. From November 1997 until March 2010, Ms. Dodd held various positions with Johnson & Johnson, most recently as vice president of health economics and reimbursement for Ethicon, Inc. Ms. Dodd also served as an outcomes researcher with Orthopedic Surgeons, plc from January 1995 until November 1997. From May 1988 until September 1993, Ms. Dodd served as a project manager with the World Health Organization.

Raymond O. Huggenberger has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2017. Since 2008, Mr. Huggenberger has served as a member of the board of directors of Inogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: INGN), a medical technology company focused on patients suffering from chronic respiratory conditions, where he also served as Chief Executive Officer from 2008 to February 2017 and as President from 2008 to January 2016. Prior to joining Inogen, Mr. Huggenberger held various management positions with Sunrise Medical Inc., a global manufacturer and distributor of durable medical equipment, culminating as its President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Huggenberger currently serves on the board of directors of private companies Sommetrics, a medical device company, and Avation Medical, a medical device company.

Daniel L. Reuvers joined Tactile in June 2020 from Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation, where he has served as the Executive Vice President and President, Codman Specialty Surgical, since December 2016. His responsibilities within Codman Specialty Surgical included leadership of sales, marketing, product development, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, global service and repair and manufacturing worldwide. He joined Integra in 2008 as Vice President of Marketing and Product Development for Integra’s surgical instruments business and was promoted to President of the acute surgical instruments business in June 2010. He was appointed President, Instruments in 2011 and Corporate Vice President and President, International in November 2013. Mr. Reuvers was president of Omni-Tract Surgical from September 2005 until December 2008, when that company was acquired by Integra. Mr. Reuvers has over 30 years of experience in the medical technology field, including holding various executive level positions in sales, marketing, and general management.

D. Brent Shafer has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2022. Mr. Shafer has also served as a Senior Advisor to Cerner Corporation (“Cerner”), which develops and sells software systems to the healthcare industry, since October 2021. Previously, Mr. Shafer was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cerner from February 2018 until October 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Shafer served as Chief Executive Officer of Philips North America, a health technology company and the North American division of Koninklijke Philips N.V. (“Philips”), from February 2014 to 2018. In that position, Mr. Shafer oversaw a health technology portfolio that included a broad range of solutions and services covering patient monitoring, imaging, clinical informatics, sleep and respiratory care as well as a group of market-leading consumer-oriented brands, and he played a key role in helping Philips develop and strengthen its health care focus. Prior to that, Mr. Shafer served as Chief Executive Officer of the global Philips’ Home Healthcare Solutions business from May 2010 until May 2014, as Chief Executive Officer of the North America region for Royal Philips Electronics from January 2009 until May 2010, and as president and Chief Executive Officer of the Healthcare Sales and Service business for Philips North America from May 2005 until May 2010.

Carmen B. Volkart has served as a member of our board of directors since 2023. Ms. Volkart has also served as the chief financial officer of NatureWorks LLC, an advanced materials company and developer of renewably-sourced polymers and chemicals, since October 2018. From October 2012 to July 2018, she served as chief financial officer and, for a portion of that time, as senior vice president of commercialization, for NxThera, Inc., a medical device company. Ms. Volkart served as global chief financial officer of Tornier N.V., a medical device company, from 2010 to 2012, and was chief operating and financial officer, corporate secretary, compliance officer and treasurer of Spine Wave, Inc. from 2006 to 2010. Prior to 2006, she held various executive and financial positions at American Medical Systems, Inc., Medtronic, Inc. and Honeywell, Inc.

Previous leadership roles include: Senior Vascular Surgeon at Tufts Medical Center and the Benjamin Andrews Emeritus Professor and Chair of Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine

Director of the Vascular Medicine Program, Director of Cardiovascular Medicine’s Noninvasive Peripheral Vascular Laboratory and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Ohio State University Medical Center

Regional Medical Director, Research Committee Member, and Associate Fellowship Program Director at Center for Vein Restoration. She is also on the Board of Directors of the American Vein and Lymphatic Society, and is Associate Professor of Surgery at Michigan State University.

Associate Professor of Radiology, Surgery, and Medicine
Director, Deep Venous Interventions

Division of Interventional Radiology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Medical Director, Supply Chain/Value Analysis
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare

Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Vascular medicine specialist at UNC Health. She is a member of the American Board of Venous and Lymphatic Medicine and participates on numerous committees and guidelines development including Treatment of Superficial Venous Disease, Fellowship training in Venous and Lymphatic Medicine and on the Steering committee for the CTRACT trial.

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