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Mr. Foster has been a director of LifeCell since March 1995. Mr. Foster was employed by Medtronic Inc. a medical technology company from 1971 to 2001. From December 1994 through his retirement in December 2001 he was Vice President and General Manager of Medtronic Heart Valves. From February 1984 to December 1994 Mr. Foster held various officer positions with Medtronic including: Vice President of Cardiac Surgery Sales & Strategic Planning in 1994 Vice President and General Manager of Medtronic Neurological Implantables from 1992 through 1994 Vice President and General Manager of Medtronic Interventional Vascular from 1990 through 1992 and Vice President and General Manager of Medtronic Blood Systems from 1983 through 1989. Mr. Foster received his undergraduate degree in English from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and a masters degree in management from the Sloan School at M.I.T. Currently Mr. Foster serves as a director of Arthrocare Corp. a publicly traded Nasdaq company specializing in soft tissue surgical technology and as the lead director of Intact Medical a privately held company specializing in breast and other biopsy technology. | 