Board of Directors

Nicholas T. Curtis has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since February 2012. Prior to this, Mr. Curtis served as our chief commercial officer from August 2010 until February 2012. Before joining us, Mr. Curtis was the vice president of sales and chief commercial officer of WaveTec Vision Systems, Inc., a privately held ophthalmic medical device company. Mr. Curtis served as a senior vice president of sales and marketing at STAAR Surgical Company, a publicly held company specializing in the manufacturing and marketing of ophthalmic surgery devices, from August 2002 until August 2008. Mr. Curtis has a B.S. from Northwestern University.

Thomas B. Ellis has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2023. Mr. Ellis is a co-managing partner of North Run Capital, LP, a public security investment firm. Prior to co-founding North Run Capital, LP in 2002, Mr. Ellis was a principal at Berkshire Partners, LLC, a private equity firm, and an analyst at MHR Fund Management, a hedge fund and distressed debt fund. Prior to his experience on the buy-side, Mr. Ellis was an associate in the investment banking division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Ellis received an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.

Todd B. Hammer has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2023. Mr. Hammer is a co-managing partner of North Run Capital, LP, a public security investment firm. Prior to co-founding North Run Capital, LP in 2002, Mr. Hammer was a principal at Greenbriar Equity Group, LLC, a private equity firm, a vice president at EnTrust Capital, LLC, a hedge fund and asset management firm, and an analyst at Baker Nye Greenblatt, LLC, an event-driven hedge fund. Prior to his experience on the buy-side, Mr. Hammer was an associate in the investment banking division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Hammer received B.A. and B.S. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.

Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2018. Dr. Lindstrom was the founder and holds an attending surgeon emeritus position at Minnesota Eye Consultants P.A., a private medical practice specializing in ophthalmology, since 1989. Since 1995, Dr. Lindstrom has served as chief executive officer and the chairman of the board of directors of Lindstrom Restoration, a privately held company specializing in restoration and contaminant mitigation. Since 2018, Dr. Lindstrom has served as Chairman of the board and a member of the Medical Advisory Board at Surface Ophthalmics, an ophthalmology pharmaceutical development company. Dr. Lindstrom has served as a member of the board of directors of Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. since 2012, Harrow Health, Inc. since 2015 and Trukera Corporation, formerly TearLab Corporation, since 2010. Dr. Lindstrom served as associate director of the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank from 1987 to 2017 and as a trustee of the University of Minnesota Foundation for four terms. He is a medical advisor for several medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers and serves on the boards or directors of several privately-held life science companies. Dr. Lindstrom previously served as President of the International Society of Refractive Surgery, the International Intraocular Implant Society, the International Refractive Surgery Club and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. From 1980 to 1989, he served as a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Minnesota, where he is currently Senior Lecturer and University of Minnesota Foundation Trustee Emeritus. Dr. Lindstrom holds a B.A. in Pre-Medical Studies, a B.S. in Medicine and an M.D. from the University of Minnesota.

William J. Link, PhD, has served as a member and chairperson of our board of directors since November 2017. Dr. Link is the co-founder of two healthcare investment firms: in 2016 Dr. Link co-founded and is Managing Partner of Flying L Partners, and Dr. Link is a co-founder and a Managing Director of Versant Ventures Management LLC, or Versant Ventures, which was founded in 1999. Dr. Link has also been a general partner at Brentwood Venture Capital, a venture capital firm and private equity company, since March 1998. Previously, Dr. Link served as founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Chiron Vision Corporation, an ophthalmic medical device company which was sold to Bausch & Lomb, Inc. in 1997. Before his time with Chiron Vision Corporation, Dr. Link founded and served as president of American Medical Optics, or AMO, a division of American Hospital Supply Corporation, which was sold to Allergan in 1986. Later, he served on the board of directors of AMO’s successor company, Advanced Medical Optics, which was acquired by Abbott in 2009. Before entering the healthcare industry, Dr. Link was an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dr. Link also serves on the board of directors of several private companies and one public company, Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since 2017. Dr. Link previously served on the board of directors of Second Sight Medical Products from 2004 until May 2020, Edwards Lifesciences from May 2009 until May 2021, Glaukos Corporation from June 2001 to December 2021, and Oyster Point Pharma from July 2015 until March 2022. Dr. Link received a B.S., an M.S. and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.

John P. McLaughlin has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2017. Mr. McLaughlin was appointed a director of PDL BioPharma, Inc. in October 2008 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from December 2008 until his retirement in December 2018. He was the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Anesiva, Inc., formerly known as Corgentech, Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company, from January 2000 to June 2008. From December 1997 to September 1999, Mr. McLaughlin was President of Tularik Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. From September 1987 to December 1997, Mr. McLaughlin held a number of senior management positions at Genentech, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, including Executive Vice President. From January 1985 to September 1987, Mr. McLaughlin was a partner at a Washington, D.C. law firm specializing in food and drug law. Prior to that, Mr. McLaughlin served as counsel to various subcommittees of the United States House of Representatives, where he drafted numerous measures that became Food and Drug Administration laws. Mr. McLaughlin has co-founded two companies: Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he served as Chairman of the board of directors from 2000 until 2006, and Peak Surgical, Inc., where he was a director from 2005 until it was acquired by Medtronic in 2011. Additionally, Mr. McLaughlin has previously served on the board of directors for the following publicly-traded biopharmaceutical companies: AxoGen, Inc., from 2012 until 2014, Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc., from 2014 until 2016, and Seattle Genetics, Inc., from 2007 until 2016. Mr. McLaughlin also served on the board of directors of Noden Pharma DAC, a private biopharmaceutical company, from July 2016 until its sale in 2020 and the board of directors of Rockwell Medical Inc from September 2019 until March 2022. He received a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from Catholic University of America.

Elizabeth G. O’Farrell has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2021. Ms. O’Farrell previously served 24 years with Eli Lilly and Company, or Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical company, most recently as chief procurement officer and head of global shared services from January 2012 to December 2017, until her retirement. At Eli Lilly, she advanced through various executive management positions, including senior vice president, policy and finance; senior vice president, finance; chief financial officer, Lilly USA; chief financial officer, Lilly Canada; and general auditor. Before joining Eli Lilly, Ms. O’Farrell was an accountant with Boise Cascade Office Products and auditor at Whipple & Company and Price Waterhouse, LLP. Currently, she serves on the board of directors of Genmab A/S, since March 2022, Geron Corporation, since March 2019 and PDL BioPharma, Inc., since June 2018 and also serves as the chairperson of the PDL BioPharma, Inc. Board. Ms. O’Farrell also served as a board member of the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis from 2006 until 2017, including as its chairperson from 2014 to 2016. Ms. O’Farrell holds a B.S. in accounting with honors and an M.B.A. in management information systems, both from Indiana University.

Aimee S. Weisner has served on our board of directors since February 2021. Ms. Weisner is also a current member of the Board of Directors for Glaukos Corporation, an ophthalmic medical technology and pharmaceutical company, where she has served as a Director since July 2014; the Board of Directors for Oyster Point Pharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on therapies to treat ocular surface diseases, where she has served as a Director since October 2019; and the Board of Directors of STAAR Surgical Company, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable lenses for the eye, where she has served as a director since June 2022. Ms. Weisner was corporate vice president, general counsel of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation from January 2011 until her retirement in July 2019. From May 2009 to December 2010, she was engaged in private practice and served as legal advisor to public pharmaceutical and medical device companies located in Southern California. Prior to this, from June 2002 to May 2009, Ms. Weisner served in a number of positions at Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (acquired by Abbott Laboratories), including executive vice president, administration and secretary. From January 1998 to June 2002, Ms. Weisner served in a number of positions at Allergan, Inc., including vice president, assistant general counsel and assistant secretary. Ms. Weisner holds a B.A. from California State University, Fullerton, and a J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and began her legal career as an associate at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP.

Gary M. Winer has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2018. Since January 2015, Mr. Winer serves as a consultant for DRC Health Care Advisors, an organization that serves companies in the biopharma, medical device and diagnostic health sectors. From April 2019 until the acquisition of the company in September 2021, Mr. Winer served as the president and chief executive officer of ORGENTEC Diagnostika GmbH, a specialty manufacturer of autoimmune and infectious disease diagnostic tests. After AbbVie, Inc., or AbbVie, separated from Abbott Laboratories, or Abbott, in January 2013, Mr. Winer served as AbbVie Japan’s executive president and chief executive officer until March 2014. Prior to the AbbVie spin off, Mr. Winer served as corporate vice president and president of Abbott Japan, and prior to that held positions as divisional vice president for Abbott’s U.S. Commercial Operations, and as divisional vice president for Abbott’s Latin America and Canada business unit. For over 25 years, Mr. Winer has been proving his leadership abilities in the healthcare and biopharmaceutical industry on an international platform that includes such notable markets in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Japan. Mr. Winer currently serves on the board of directors for HCW Biologics, a public company, and two private companies, Bionode and SmartHealth Catalyzer. Mr. Winer holds a B.S. in Finance from California State University and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School.