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Mr. Ruedy joined Cardica in April 2007 from Abbott Vascular, where he was director of regulatory affairs for their endovascular and vessel closure business units, responsible for all regulatory operations for class II and III medical devices, including stents and stent grafts, closure devices and angioplasty catheters. He was responsible for all U.S. and international regulatory filings for these devices, and under his supervision, Abbott Vascular received two original PMA approvals in the same year. Prior to Abbott Vascular, Mr. Ruedy was vice president of regulatory, clinical and governmental affairs for Parallax Medical (acquired by ArthroCare Corporation), where he executed a corporate strategy for all domestic and international device approvals, registrations, clearances and licenses. Prior to Parallax Medical, Mr. Ruedy held escalating clinical, regulatory and quality assurance positions in multinational medical device companies, including Medtronic and Baxter Healthcare. Mr. Ruedy was also a co-founder of Acta Vascular Systems, a privately held neurovascular device company that recently merged with CardioVasc Inc. Mr. Ruedy received his bachelor of arts degree from Bucknell University. | 