Board of Directors

William C. Bopp
Director, Chairman of the Board

John ”Jed” Kennedy
Director, President and Chief Operating Officer

William C. Bopp
Mr. Bopp retired in 2004 from ALARIS Medical Systems, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of infusion pumps and related disposable products, where he had been senior vice president and chief financial officer. Mr. Bopp joined ALARIS in March 1999, as vice president and chief financial officer. He was elected to the position of senior vice president and chief financial officer in November 1999. ALARIS was acquired by Cardinal Health in July 2004. Mr. Bopp was formerly executive vice president and chief financial officer of C.R. Bard, Inc. Since 1980, he held positions of increasing responsibility with Bard, a $1.6 billion developer, manufacturer and marketer of health care products. From 1995 through 1998, he also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Bard. Mr. Bopp is a graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, and completed his MBA, Finance, from the Harvard Business School.

J. Winder Hughes
Mr. Hughes is the managing partner, since 1995, of Hughes Capital Investors, LLC which manages private assets and raises money for small public companies. He formed the Focus Fund, LP is 2000 (with Hughes Capital as the fund manager), which is a highly-concentrated equity partnership that focuses on publicly-traded emerging growth companies. From 1983 to 1995, Mr. Hughes was an Investment Executive, first with Kidder Peabody & Co. and subsequently with Prudential Securities. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill with a BA in Economics, minor in English.

John “Jed” Kennedy
Mr. Kennedy is the president and chief operating officer of Viking Systems. Mr. Kennedy joined Vista Medical in January 1997 as vice president of research and development. He was appointed vice president/general manager of Westborough operations in January 2000 before being appointed executive vice president and COO in December 2000. Prior to joining Vista, Mr. Kennedy held various positions in manufacturing, quality engineering and product development at Smith & Nephew Endoscopy from 1984 through January 1997. From 1996 through January 1997 he was the group director of product development responsible for managing all divisional product development activities. From 1993 through 1996, Mr. Kennedy was director, research and development responsible for the management of four technology product development groups. Prior to 1984, he held various engineering positions at Honeywell’s Electro-Optics and Avionics divisions. Mr. Kennedy received a B.S. in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University in 1979.

William T. Tumber
William Tumber served on the Board of Directors of Alaris Medical Systems, Inc. from 2000 to 2004. Prior to this Mr. Tumber spent 20 years with medical device company C. R. Bard, Inc. where he held divisional positions including VP of Human Resources, VP of Manufacturing, Division President, as well as serving as Corporate Group Vice President responsible for all of Bard's surgical businesses. He retired from Bard in 1999. Before joining Bard, Tumber worked for General Electric. He held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility which included technical recruiting, human relations, and Plant Manager of a 300-person electronic assembly facility.