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Mark G. Allen, Ph.D., is a co-founder and has served as our Chief Technology Officer and a member of our board of directors since our inception in November 2000. Prior to co-founding CardioMEMS in 1999, Dr. Allen was the co-founder of Redeon, Inc., which was one of the earliest companies to successfully develop micro-needle technology and was subsequently acquired by Biovalve Technologies, Inc. in 2001. Since 1989, Dr. Allen has been employed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech. Dr. Allen is the Joseph M. Pettit Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and directs the university’s MEMS research program. In light of his employment obligations to Georgia Tech and consulting work for several private companies, Dr. Allen does not devote his full time to CardioMEMS. Dr. Allen holds a B.A. in Chemistry, a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering and a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | 