J. CHRISTOPHER FLAHERTY - Executive Vice President, Technology and Intellectual Property. Prior to joining Cyberkinetics in 2003, Mr. Flaherty was founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Insulet Corporation located in Beverly, MA from 2000-2002. At Insulet, he oversaw the development of the first fully disposable programmable infusion pump for subcutaneous delivery of insulin for diabetic patients. From 1996 - 2003, Mr. Flaherty co-founded and was Executive Vice President of TransVascular, Inc., located in Menlo Park, CA (and recently acquired by Medtronic), where he led the development of numerous interventional products including an ultrasonically guided drug delivery catheter and a system of interventional products used by a cardiologist to perform the first ever completely percutaneous coronary bypass procedure. Mr. Flaherty has also held positions at Pfizer and Strato Medical. Mr. Flaherty earned a B.S. in Aeronautical and Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1985. |