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Mr. Tardugno's career having been exclusively focused in healthcare brings 28 years of experience in pharmaceutical and medical device industries to Celsion. Prior to joining the Company he held positions of increasing responsibility in general management, operations and product and technology development. For the past two years, Mr. Tardugno served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mylan Technologies Inc, a subsidiary of Mylan Laboratories a transdermal delivery system and medical components company. Before Mylan, he was a founding member of management and Executive Vice President of Songbird Hearing, Inc, a privately held start up company. In this capacity, Mr. Tardugno forged a number of commercial and technology development agreements with major US and International partners in the development and commercialization of the world's first disposable hearing aid. Before Songbird, he held the positions of Senior Vice President of Technical Operations for the ConvaTec division of Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Vice President of Technology Development and Manufacturing for Bausch & Lomb, where he was responsible for reengineering the company's contact lens technology and operations platform, allowing Bausch & Lomb to compete in the consumer focused disposable lens category. Mr. Tardugno began his career in 1977 with Abbott Laboratories where he held positions in pharmaceutical operations and as plant manager for the company's Ross Laboratories Division nutritional business. | 