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Mike McMullen is Agilent’s CEO-elect. He will assume the CEO position in March 2015 when William (Bill) Sullivan takes an advisory role until his retirement. As a first step in the CEO transition, McMullen has been named president and chief operating officer. McMullen has more than 30 years of industry experience and senior management experience at Agilent. He has been president of the company’s Chemical Analysis Group (CAG) since 2009, a role he still fills on an acting basis. As head of CAG, McMullen transformed the business, consistently delivering market-leading growth and profits. He championed strategic acquisitions and architected Agilent’s China strategy. He built the Agilent-wide Services business that has now been made one of Agilent’s three major businesses. McMullen has extensive experience working across Agilent’s businesses, and is recognized for his inspirational leadership style. He also has significant international experience, having lived in Japan, leading Agilent’s Japan field sales and support operations, and later adding responsibility for China field operations. McMullen joined Agilent’s predecessor, Hewlett-Packard Co., in 1984 as a financial analyst. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and business administration from the University of Delaware and an MBA from Wharton Business School.

Michael 'Mike' Cotton is a Regional Chief Executive Officer at UnitedHealthcare Community & State, President/CEO at ALERE HEALTH, and Board Member at BioIQ Inc and is based in Atlanta Metropolitan Area. He has worked as Chief Operating Officer- QualChoice Health Plan at University Hospitals, President/CEO at SelectHealth Inc, and Managing Director at Mercer Human Resources Cnsltng. Michael works or has worked at Matria Healthcare and works or has worked as Senior VP/COO at Univ Hospitals Health Systems. He attended The Ohio State University, FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY, and Cleveland State University.

José E. Almeida is a Brazilian businessman. He has served as the chairman and CEO of Baxter International, Inc. since January 2016. He worked for Tyco Healthcare from 1995 to 2002. He was president of Medical Devices division from October 2006 to June 2011. He served as chairman of the board of directors of Covidien since March 2012 and as the president, chief executive officer and a director since July 2011. He became a director of EMC Corporation on Jan 12, 2015 and resigned on October 30, 2015, due to his election as chairman and CEO of Baxter. In 2015, he worked for The Carlyle Group as an Operating Executive in the Global Healthcare group.

Mr. Norman D. Schwartz is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Bio Rad Laboratories Inc. Mr. Schwartz has been President and Chief Executive Officer since 2003 and Chairman of the Board since 2012. He was Vice President from 1989 to 2002, Group Manager, Life Science, from 1997 to 2002 and Group Manager, Clinical Diagnostics, from 1993 to 1997.

Michael F. Mahoney is a Director on the board of the Boys & Girls Club of Boston. He is the Chairman and CEO of Boston Scientific.

Michael A. Mussallem, age 56, has been chairman and CEO of Edwards Lifesciences, Inc. since 2000. Prior to 2000, Mussallem held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility in engineering, product development and senior management at Baxter International Inc., including Group Vice President of its CardioVascular business from 1994 to 2000 and Group Vice President of the Biopharmaceutical business from 1998 to 2000. From 1996 until 1998, he was the Chairman of Baxter's Asia Board overseeing Baxter's operations throughout Asia. Mr. Mussallem is chairman of the board of directors of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), and serves as a member of the board for Advanced Medical Optics. He is also on the boards and executive committees of the California Healthcare Institute and OCTANe, and is a trustee of the University of California, Irvine Foundation. He received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1974 and an honorary doctorate in 1999 from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana.

Gary Guthart joined Intuitive Surgical in April 1996. Effective January 2010, Guthart was appointed as Chief Executive Officer. In July 2007, he was promoted to President. Prior to that, in February 2006, Guthart assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Intuitive, Guthart was part of the core team developing foundation technology for computer enhanced-surgery at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute). Guthart is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Affymetrix, Inc. He received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology.