Robert A. Stockman

A.B., Harvard University; M.B.A., The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. REVA Medical, Chairman; Heartware, Inc., Board member; SPS Parents Association (past co-chair); MBA Advisory Board, The Tuck School. Chairman of the Board and director since 1999 and its Chief Executive Officer since August 2010. Mr. Stockman has also served as a director of HeartWare Limited and subsequently HeartWare International, Inc., a US medical device company listed on ASX and NASDAQ since December 2006. Since 1999, Mr. Stockman has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Group Outcome LLC, a US-based merchant banking firm which deploys its capital and that of its financial partners in private equity and venture capital investments in medical technology companies. Mr. Stockman also co-founded Centrimed, Inc., an internet-based software company that was acquired by Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC. He led the buyouts of Ioptex, an intraocular lens manufacturer, and two Johnson & Johnson divestitures, "A" Company Orthodontics, Inc. and Critikon Company, LLC. Prior to establishing Group Outcome LLC, Mr. Stockman spent 18 years with Johnston Associates, Inc. and Narragansett Capital Corporation, where he focused on venture capital investments and merger advisory work in the health care sector. Mr. Stockman holds a Bachelors Degree from Harvard College and a Master of Business Administration from The Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.