Brian E. Farley

BRIAN E. FARLEY is President and Chief Executive Officer of VNUS Medical
Technologies Inc. He joined VNUS as the first employee in 1995 after 14
years with Eli Lilly and Company and Guidant Corporation. At VNUS, Mr.
Farley has led the company from product development and fund-raising to
its current stage of marketing the VNUS vein Closure products throughout
the world. Prior to VNUS, Mr. Farley was at Guidant Corporation where
he held the positions of Vice President of R&D at Guidant-DVI, and Vice
President of R&D for Stents at Guidant-ACS. Past positions included
Director of Clinical Research at DVI and Manager of New Product
Technology in the Medical Device Division M&A group at Eli Lilly and
Company. Mr. Farley has an MS in Electrical Engineering with a major in
Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University.