Board of Directors

 

Sheli Z. Rosenberg, Chair of the Board of Directors

Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 

Ms. Rosenberg previously served as a director of the Company from 2002 to 2012. Ms. Rosenberg is currently Of Counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Ms. Rosenberg is the retired chief executive officer, president and vice chairwoman of Equity Group Investments, Inc. She joined Equity Group Investments, Inc. in 1980 as General Counsel. She sits on the boards of three New York Stock Exchange corporations: Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc., Strategic Hotels and Resorts, Inc. and Ventas, Inc.


Michael J. Ward

Director, Lurie Investments

Mr. Ward joined Lurie Investments, Inc. in 2009 as a Vice President and is currently a Director, responsible for managing investment activities. Lurie Investments, Inc. beneficially owns 74,324 shares of the Company's common stock and certain of its affiliates (such affiliates, together with Lurie Investments, Inc., being the "Lurie Entities") beneficially own an aggregate of 14,650,413 shares of the Company's common stock. Prior to joining Lurie Investments, Inc., Mr. Ward gained over 15 years of investment banking experience at Credit Suisse, Prudential Securities, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, BMO and Leerink Swann. Mr. Ward is a member of the board of directors of CytoPherx, Inc., an acute renal failure-focused therapeutic medical device company based in Ann Arbor, MI, and Discera, Inc., a MEMS (micro-electrical mechanical system) products company based in San Jose, CA.


Andre de Bruin

Founder and CEO of DuraPorts, Inc.

Mr. de Bruin has served as member of our board of directors since 2005. Mr. de Bruin has more than 35 years of global healthcare industry experience spanning the bio-pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics markets. Mr. de Bruin is the founder and chief executive officer of DuraPorts Inc., a manufacturer of steel and fabric structures. He is chairman of the Board of Directors of NxThera Inc., a medical device company based in St. Paul, MN.  Prior to his retirement in 2004 as executive chairman of Quidel Corporation’s board of directors, Mr. de Bruin served as the company’s chief executive officer from 1998 until 2001. He was president and chief executive officer of Somatogen and was elected chairman in 1996. Prior to joining Somatogen, Mr. de Bruin was chairman, president and chief executive officer of Boehringer Mannheim Corporation, a global healthcare concern subsequently acquired by Hoffman-La Roche. Past experience includes advisory services for Ferrer, Freeman and Company, LLC and various boards of directors. Mr. de Bruin graduated from the University of Potchefstroom in South Africa, where he earned a B.S. in finance, economics and business. Based on Mr. de Bruin’s extensive experience in the medical device and diagnostics industry as both a director and executive officer, the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors concluded that Mr. de Bruin has the requisite experience, qualifications, attributes and skill necessary to serve as a member of the Board of Directors.


Chad A. Mirkin, Ph.D., Co-Founder

Director, Northwestern University International Institute for Nanotechnology

Dr. Mirkin, one of our co-founders, has served as a member of our board of directors since 2000. Dr. Mirkin is a scientist and pioneer in the development of ultra-high sensitivity and selectivity assays based upon nanostructures. He is currently the director of the Northwestern University International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Mirkin received his undergraduate training at Dickinson College (B.S., 1986) and his graduate training at the Pennsylvania State University, where he completed his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1989. That same year, he moved to MIT as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Mirkin joined the faculty at Northwestern University in 1991. He has won over 70 national and international awards for his research, including the ACS Nobel Signature Award, the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, the Feynman Prize, the Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, the Sackler Prize, the Materials Research Society's Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the E. Bright Wilson Prize, and the Lemelson-MIT Prize.  He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
 

Michael McGarrity

President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. McGarrity, who has more than 17 years of sales and marketing experience in the medical device industry, joined Nanosphere after 13 years with Stryker Corporation. He served in leadership roles in marketing and strategic development, most recently as vice president of marketing for Stryker Instruments, a $700 million division of the $4.3 billion Stryker Corporation. In this position, McGarrity's marketing and business development acumen guided the company into markets such as post-operative pain management, waste management and interventional pain management which now account for more than 20 percent of the division's revenue. He also had executive general management responsibility for a newly created business focused on interventional pain management. McGarrity is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and began his career in commercial banking in Chicago.
 

Jeff Randall

Financial Consultant

Mr. Randall has served as a member of our board of directors and the chairman of the audit committee since 2008. Mr. Randall is a financial consultant and also serves on the boards of the following healthcare companies: Tengion, Inc., Athersys, Inc. and Acorda Therapeutics, Inc.  Mr. Randall previously served as senior vice president-chief financial officer of Eximias Pharmaceutical Corporation, a development stage provider of oncology therapeutics.  Mr. Randall held the same position at i-STAT Corporation, a manufacturer of medical diagnostic devices, which was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in 2004.  His career also includes senior management positions at CFM Technologies, a semiconductor manufacturing equipment company; Greenwich  Pharmaceutical Corporation, a development stage provider of immune system disease therapeutics; and Surgilase, a provider of surgical lasers to hospitals and clinics.  Mr. Randall received a B.S. in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from Northeastern University.  Based on Mr. Randall’s background as a financial consultant, executive and director at diagnostic and other healthcare companies, as well as his expertise in finance, accounting, internal controls and enterprise risk, the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors concluded that Mr. Randall has the requisite experience, qualifications, attributes and skill necessary to serve as a member of the Board of Directors.