Fred McCoy is Vice Chairman of Synecor, LLC (www.synecor.com). Synecor was founded in the year 2000. It has become a successful business accelerator focused on creating highly proprietary, disruptive technologies in the largest medical device and combination drug-device markets. In addition to his duties with Synecor, Mr. McCoy is active in business, academic, and civic pursuits. A native of Laurinburg, North Carolina, Mr. McCoy was graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979. He was graduated with a degree of Master of Management from the Northwestern University J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1981. Mr. McCoy began his business career with Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana. There he worked in a series of assignments of increasing responsibility in finance in the corporate, domestic, international, pharmaceutical, and agricultural businesses of the Company. During part of this early period, he also served as a pharmaceutical sales representative in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1988, Mr. McCoy became Vice President of Finance of Hybritech Incorporated, a Lilly subsidiary, in San Diego, California. In 1991, he became Chief Financial Officer of Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., a Lilly subsidiary, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Mr. McCoy entered general management in 1994 as General Manager, Northwest Operations, in Seattle, Washington. Later in 1994, Guidant Corporation was formed out of the medical technology enterprises of Lilly. In 1995, Mr. McCoy became Vice President of United States Operations West. In 1997, he moved to Tokyo, Japan as President, Guidant Japan and Asia Pacific Operations. In May of 2000, Mr. McCoy became President, Guidant Cardiac Rhythm Management, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he served until his retirement in March 2006 pending the sale of Guidant. Mr. McCoy is a member and past chairman of the Kellogg Alumni Advisory Board of Northwestern University. He is a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Andrews Presbyterian College.