Lawrence C. Cardinale has served as a director of the Company since Synergetics Inc.’s merger with Valley Forge in 2005. Mr. Cardinale received his B.S.B.A. in Business from Washington University in St. Louis Missouri and has recently retired after working in the medical industry since 1966. During his over 35 years working in the field of medical manufacturing he has held various management positions including Plant Manager Director of Manufacturing Director of Corporate Engineering Director of Operations Planning Vice President of Manufacturing-International and Vice President-Global Manufacturing and Engineering of a multi-national medical manufacturing company. Mr. Cardinale also owned and operated a scientific laboratory instrument business concentrating in the life sciences area which manufactured and marketed tissue sectioning microforge and micromanipulation instruments and pipeting devices. Mr. Cardinale currently serves as a board member of Coretech-Holdings LLC a St. Louis-based life sciences and medical device manufacturing company and McCormick Scientific LLC. |