Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> April 6, 2009

Joseph P. Pellegrino Jr. – Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. (lmat)

JOSEPH P. PELLEGRINO JR., Chief Financial Officer of LeMaitre Vascular, Inc., has served as the company's Executive Vice President, Finance since 2005. From 2003 to 2004, he served as temporary Chief Executive Officer of Affordable Luxuries, a direct marketing company. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Pellegrino worked at Zoots, Inc., a consumer services company, where most recently he served as Senior Vice President of Operations. Previously, Mr. Pellegrino built and sold a regional mall-based specialty retailing company. He has also served as an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers, as part of their mergers and acquisitions group. Mr. Pellegrino holds an AB in Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief historical sketch of LeMaitre and a picture

of what the company is doing currently?

Mr. Pellegrino: The company was founded in 1983 by a vascular surgeon,