Board of Directors

Stuart Foster

Mr. Foster brings to the Company’s board a strong management background in various aspects of the healthcare industry.  From 2000-2008, Mr. Foster served as Corporate Vice President of Edwards Life Sciences and participated in the spin-off of Edwards from Baxter International into a NYSE listed company in April 2000.  Mr. Foster was President, Global Operations for Baxter International from 1994 to 2000, where he managed the vascular and critical care business.  

From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Foster was president of Intramed Laboratories, a venture funded development stage company, focused on technology for disposable endoscopy products that subsequently went public and was sold to Baxter International.  In 1983 to 1989,  Mr. Foster was vice president and general manager of Sensormedics, the advanced technology operations group of Beckman Instruments, where he coordinated a leverage buyout of the business that became the leader in anesthesia monitoring and exercise physiology equipment and was subsequently sold to Thermo-Electron.