Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> January 9, 2004

RICH LOTTI – CONVERGE MEDICAL

RICH LOTTI is President, CEO and a Director of Converge Medical. He has over 25 years of management experience in the medical device industry.Before joining Converge, Rich served in a variety of executive- level positions. Most recently, he was Vice President of Business Development with CardioThoracic Systems, Inc., the leading off-pump cardiovascular surgery company. Prior to that, Rich was General Manager of Camino NeuroCare in San Diego (currently Integra Life Sciences). He also worked for Sorin Biomedical (formerly Pfizer-Shiley), first as Director of Product Development, and then as Director of the Cardiopulmonary Business. In addition, Rich has spent time in various Director-level positions with Alcon Surgical, and has held domestic and international engineering and management positions in several Johnson & Johnson companies.Rich received a BSME and MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Profile
TWST: Give us a short history of Converge Medical as well as an overview

of the company today?

Mr. Lotti: Converge was founded in 1998 to develop less invasive

approaches to coronary artery