Robert Thomas

Mr. Thomas currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for eight companies in the life sciences field, as well as serving on the Boards of several non-profit organizations. From 1998 until 2006, he served as the President, CEO and member of the Board of Fox Hollow Technologies. Mr. Thomas led Fox Hollow from a start-up company with 12 employees through a successful public offering with over a $1 billion market capitalization. Fox Hollow developed a device to treat Peripheral Arterial Disease which contributed approximately $200 million in annualized revenue to the company and generated a collaboration agreement for developmental technologies with Merck. Prior to serving as President and CEO, Mr. Thomas was Vice President of Operations for Fox Hollow. From 1997 through 1998, Mr. Thomas was Vice President of Operations for the women's health company, Conceptus, and prior to that was the founder of TMP, Inc., a private medical device company that was ultimately sold to GE Healthcare. Mr. Thomas also was a founder of Access Devices, where he worked from 1984 to 1990, which was acquired by Baxter Healthcare. He has banking experience with specific knowledge in specialized and structured lending. Mr. Thomas received a B.A. in Economics from Ursinus College.