CSAR M. GARCA is President and Chief Executive Officer of IRIS
International Inc. He joined IRIS International, Inc., in January 2002
as Corporate Executive Vice President and was elevated to President in
June 2003. Mr. Garca has nearly 30 years of experience in medical
device manufacturing. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Garca was
Senior Vice President, Operations and Program Management for Cytometrics
Inc. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an early stage manufacturer of non-
invasive, photonics-based medical devices. From 1994 to 1998, he was
Vice President of Operations and Engineering at Datascope Corp. of
Mahwah, New Jersey, which manufactures medical devices for
interventional cardiology, anesthesiology and critical care monitoring.
From 1974 through 1994, Mr. Garca worked with Bayer, assuming positions
of increased responsibility including General Manager of Technicon
Electronics Corp., a subsidiary of Bayer USA, and Director of Worldwide
Hematology Manufacturing and Cellular Diagnostics Research and
Development. Mr. Garca earned his BS in Industrial Engineering (cum
laude) at the University of Puerto Rico and received an Advanced
Management Certificate from Pace University, Pleasantville, New York.
