CVRx CEO and leadership

Nadim Yared is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CVRx® . Mr. Yared previously served as Vice President and General Manager of Medtronic Navigation, a supplier of integrated image-guided surgery products, from 2002 to 2006. He also worked at GE Medical for ten years, where he was Vice President of Global Marketing for OEC Medical Systems, Inc. and Vice President and General Manager of General Electric Company’s European X-ray business based in Paris. Mr. Yared is a member of the boards of directors of AdvaMed, Lightpoint Medical, the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (“MDIC”), NanoWear, Inc., North American Science Associates, Inc. (“NAMSA”) and CVRx. In addition, Mr. Yared is currently the Chairman of the NAMSA Board of Directors and has recently served as Chairman of the AdvaMed Board of Directors and the MDIC Board of Directors. Mr. Yared has an engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and an M.B.A. from INSEAD, France.

Finance leader with a diverse background including work in public accounting (KPMG), a publicly traded company (Compellent/Dell), a company filing for an IPO (BioAmber) and PE / VC backed companies (CVRx and Sport Ngin). Experience in medical devices, SaaS, software and hardware industries.

Cross-functional experience includes long-term strategic and financial planning, sales (contract negotiation and incentive compensation plans), corporate development (merger and acquisition due diligence and integration planning), marketing (product and pricing strategy), sales operations, IT and human resources (benefits management and compensation).

Mr. Brintnall has 45 years of business experience and has been the head of finance at six emerging growth companies (three in technology and three in medical devices) including Computer Network Technology, Integ, and Survivalink. John has an undergraduate degree in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.

Paul Verrastro has over 30 years of experience in the cardiac rhythm market. He started his career as a sales representative for Medtronic. After 10 years in the field, he joined Guidant as Director of Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators Marketing. He then served as Vice President of Marketing for all of Guidant in Europe and later as Vice President of Global Marketing for their CRM division. Following the acquisition by Boston Scientific, he left to start his own consulting business and worked with clients such as St. Jude Medical, Abbott Cardiovascular and Medtronic CRDM. In May of 2011, he joined Medtronic as Vice President of Global Strategic Marketing. Over his career, he has helped bring a number of new technologies to market such as Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators, Cardiac Resynchronization Therapies, Implantable Loop Recorders and Leadless Pacing. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University.

Nadim Yared is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CVRx® . Mr. Yared previously served as Vice President and General Manager of Medtronic Navigation, a supplier of integrated image-guided surgery products, from 2002 to 2006. He also worked at GE Medical for ten years, where he was Vice President of Global Marketing for OEC Medical Systems, Inc. and Vice President and General Manager of General Electric Company’s European X-ray business based in Paris. Mr. Yared is a member of the boards of directors of AdvaMed, Lightpoint Medical, the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (“MDIC”), NanoWear, Inc., North American Science Associates, Inc. (“NAMSA”) and CVRx. In addition, Mr. Yared is currently the Chairman of the NAMSA Board of Directors and has recently served as Chairman of the AdvaMed Board of Directors and the MDIC Board of Directors. Mr. Yared has an engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and an M.B.A. from INSEAD, France.