CVRX, INC.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Dr. Behbahani joined NEA’s healthcare team in 2007 and specializes in healthcare investments in the biopharmaceutical, medical device, specialty pharmaceutical and healthcare services sectors. Prior to joining NEA, Ali worked as an intern and later as a consultant in business development at The Medicines Company, a specialty pharmaceutical company developing acute care cardiovascular products. He previously held positions as a Venture Associate at Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and as a Healthcare Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers. He conducted basic science research in the fields of viral fusion inhibition and structural proteomics at the National Institutes of Health and at Duke University. Ali concurrently earned his MD degree from The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and his MBA degree from The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, where he graduated with Honors and was a Palmer Scholar. He graduated summa cum laude and received his bachelor’s degrees with distinction in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Chemistry from Duke University. Dr. Kadhiresan has more than a decade of operational experience in various functional roles including research, product development, and business development. Before joining JJDC, as head of Business Development at Guidant, Inc., now Boston Scientific, Inc., Dr. Kadhiresan led several transactions to access novel medical device technologies with venture investments, M&As, licensing and joint ventures. Prior to entering business development, he led the research and development of multiple early-stage technologies and products in cardiac rhythm management and heart failure. Dr. Kadhiresan was instrumental in the development of the cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure, now a multi-billion dollar worldwide market. At Heart Rhythm Technologies, a subsidiary of Guidant, he led the development of an ablation technology for treatment of atrial fibrillation and raised venture financing for the project. In addition, Dr. Kadhiresan is an inventor on more than 40 patents and has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Kadhiresan received a PhD and Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (REC), Trichy, India. John M. Nehra graduated from the University of Michigan, BA 1970. Upon graduating, he joined Doyle O’Connor & Company, a leading nationwide NASDAQ trading firm based in Chicago, as an Associate in their Venture Group. In 1971 Mr. Nehra built a small Research and Sales Department following small to medium sized publicly traded growth stocks, complementing the firm’s historic trading capabilities. With the passing of Bob Doyle in 1975, the firm never fully realized its full potential. In 1975 Alex Brown & Sons hired Mr. Nehra to build a corporate strategy in Health Care, with an expanded approach to Investment Banking. For decades Alex. Brown became the preeminent national firm in Health Care Research, Trading and Banking. Alex. Brown adopted this strategic template in Software, Transportation, Consumer and Financial Services. In 1981 Mr. Nehra became a Partner of the firm. Mr. Nehra also worked with Alex Brown’s Partners with an entry into Venture Capital, Merchant Banking and Capital Markets. Mr. Nehra worked and managed Health Care related Research and Investment Banking ultimately managing the Capital Markets Desk. In 1989 until his retirement in August 2014, Mr. Nehra was affiliated with New Enterprise Associates (“NEA”), a leading venture capital firm, including, from 1993 until his retirement, as General Partner of several of its affiliated venture capital limited partnerships. Mr. Nehra also served as Managing General Partner of Catalyst Ventures, a venture capital firm, from 1989 to 2013. Mr. Nehra served on numerous boards of NEA’s portfolio companies in healthcare and technology until his retirement in August 2014. Mr. Nehra remains a retired special partner of NEA. Since 1999 Mr. Nehra has served on the board of DaVita (NYSE:DVA). He advises and is on the board of several private companies. He has been active with the Baltimore School for the Arts and various charities. Mr. Nehra is married and has two daughters. Tom Heyman is the Global Head of Business Development, Pharmaceuticals Group of Janssen Global Services, LLC. In this role, he is responsible for all of the licensing and acquisition activities in this group. The Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation reports to Tom. He is also a member of the Group Operating Committee of the Janssen Group. Tom started his career with the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies in the Legal Department of Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1982, where he held a management position supporting legal and licensing activities. In 1990, he became Vice-President of Corporate Development at Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, and was appointed Head of Global Business Development for the Pharmaceutical Group in 1992. From June 2007 until July 2009, he also served as Head of the Central Nervous System/Internal Medicine Research & Early Development (RED) organization. Tom holds a Master of Law degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He continued with post-graduate studies in International Law in Geneva, Switzerland, and post-graduate studies in Business Management at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Geoff Pardo joined Gilde Healthcare in 2011 as a Partner working out of the office in Boston/Cambridge, MA and is focusing on Gilde’s investments in North America. He led the investments in CVRx , InovaLabs (acquired by ResMed), BionX and Vapotherm and represents Gilde as a member of the board of directors for each company. Geoff also served as President & CEO of Facet Solutions, a spinal implant company focused on treating lumbar spinal stenosis until the company was sold to Globus Medical in 2011. He has also worked at Cardinal Partners as an Associate leading their investing activity in the medical device sector. He was responsible for sourcing and managing investments in Replication Medical and CardioOptics.