Omar Ishrak, age 56, has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic
since June 2011. Prior to joining Medtronic, Mr. Ishrak served as President and
Chief Executive Officer of GE Healthcare Systems, a division of GE Healthcare,
from 2009 to 2011. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Healthcare
Clinical Systems from 2005 to 2008, Vice President and General Manager of GE Healthcare
Ultrasound and BMD from 2000 to 2004, and General Manager, Global Ultrasound from
1995 to 2000.
Michael J. Coyle, age 49, has been Executive Vice President and Group President,
Cardiac and Vascular Group since December 2009. Prior to that, he served as
President of the Cardiac Rhythm Management division at St. Jude from 2001 to
2007, and prior positions included serving St. Jude as President of the company’s
Daig Catheter division and numerous leadership positions at Eli Lilly &
Company. Mr. Coyle is a member of the board of directors of Volcano Corporation.
H. James Dallas, age 53, has been Senior Vice President, Quality and Operations
since April 2008. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Information
Officer of Medtronic from April 2006 to April 2008. He was Vice President and
Chief Information Officer of Georgia Pacific Corporation from December 2002
to December 2005; General Manager of the Transportation Division and President
of the Lumber Division of Georgia Pacific Corporation from October 2001 to December
2002; and Vice President, Building Products Distribution Sales and Logistics,
Georgia Pacific Corporation from October 2000 to October 2001. Mr. Dallas is
a member of the board of directors of KeyCorp.
Gary L. Ellis, age 55, has been Senior Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer since May 2005. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Corporate Controller
and Treasurer since October 1999 and Vice President and Corporate Controller
from August 1994 to October 1999. Mr. Ellis joined Medtronic in 1989 as Assistant
Corporate Controller and was promoted to Vice President of Finance for Medtronic
Europe in 1992, until being named as Corporate Controller in 1994. Mr. Ellis
is a member of the board of directors of The Toro Company and past chairman
of the American Heart Association.
D. Cameron Findlay, age 52, has been Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and Corporate Secretary since August 2009. Prior to that, Mr. Findlay was Executive
Vice President and General Counsel of Aon Corporation from August 2003 to June
2009. Prior to joining Aon, Mr. Findlay served as the U.S. Deputy Secretary
of Labor. Before joining the Labor Department in June 2001, Mr. Findlay was
a partner at the law firm now known as Sidley Austin LLP. Before that, he served
in the White House as an aide to U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
Richard Kuntz, M.D., age 55, has been Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific,
Clinical and Regulatory Officer since August 2009. Prior to that, he was Senior
Vice President and President, Neuromodulation from October 2005 to August 2009;
and prior to that, he was an interventional cardiologist and Chief of the Division
of Clinical Biometrics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Associate Professor
of Medicine and Chief Scientific Officer of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute.
Mr. Kuntz is a member of the board of directors of Tengion, Inc.
Christopher J. O’Connell, age 45, has been Executive Vice President
and Group President, Restorative Therapies Group since August 2009. Prior to
that, he was Senior Vice President and President, Diabetes from October 2006
to August 2009, President of Medtronic’s Emergency Response Systems division
from May 2005 to October 2006, and Vice President of Sales and Marketing of
Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management division from November 2001
to May 2005. Mr. O’Connell has served in various management positions
since joining the Company in 1994.
Caroline Stockdale, age 48, has been Senior Vice President and Chief Human
Resources Officer since April 2010. Prior to that, she served as Vice President
of Revenue Cycle Operations at Accretive Health from January 2009 to May 2010.
From 2005 to 2009, she served as Executive Vice President of Global Human Resources
at Warner Music Group; from 2002 to 2005, she was Senior Vice President, Human
Resources, at American Express Financial Advisors (Ameriprise); and from 1997
to 2002, she was Executive Vice President and Global HR Leader at GE Capital.
Medtronic Plc currently has 95000 employees.