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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM

Robert Gaines-Cooper
Group Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Gaines-Cooper founded LMA in July 1998 and was appointed its Group Chairman in May 2004.  He stepped down from his non-executive directorship of Orthofix International N.V. on December 5, 2006 and is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Venner Capital SA, Chairman of FMT and a Director of Chelle Medical Limited.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration from Kensington University Glendale California and has completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School, Boston.  He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

John Lim Kok Min
Executive Deputy Chairman

Mr Lim was appointed Group President and Director of LMA in October 2004. In December 2006 he stepped down from the position of Group President and was appointed Executive Deputy Chairman. He is currently Chairman of Senoko Power Limited and immediate past Chairman of the Building & Construction Authority. He serves on the Board of Directors and is Chairman or member of the Audit, Remuneration and the Nominating Committees of several listed and private companies. He is also the President and a fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors and a member of the Securities Industry Council. He holds a BA Hons (Econs) degree from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur.

Steve Block

Steve Block
President and Chief Executive Officer, LMA North America, Inc.

Mr Block was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of LMA North America on December 1, 2006. Mr Block has more than 20 years of health care experience of which 16 years have been in the field of anaesthesia and medical devices, and he has worked in the United States and all major international markets. Mr Block, who joined the company in January 2005, has been in charge of sales, marketing and operations for the last two years as its Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining LMA North America, he was acting President and Vice-President world-wide sales and marketing of Datascope Corporation’s patient monitoring division.

Michael Briant

Michael Briant
Group Chief Financial Officer, LMA International N.V.

Mr Briant has been Group Chief Financial Officer since January 2004. He is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ACA) in England and Wales. He has more than 19 years of experience in senior financial positions within small, medium and large international companies, including senior financial roles within various subsidiaries of THORN EMI plc and THORN plc.

Dr. Markus Haller

Dr. Markus Haller
President of LMA Urology

Dr. Haller was appointed President of LMA Urology in February 2008.  In addition to this role, Dr. Haller heads LMA’s Product Development Unit leveraging on his wide-ranging experience in product research and development.  Dr. Haller holds a Doctorate in Innovation Management from Lausanne, Switzerland, a MA in International Management from the University of St. Thomas, U.S. and a Masters Degree in Engineering.  He has more than 15 years experience in the medical device industry and had held senior technology and management positions in several corporations including Head of R&D Europe for Medtronic Inc. where he spent nine years, and as Chief Executive Officer of Cochlear Acoustics Ltd, a global leader in the research and development, manufacture and marketing of implantable hearing solutions, in Europe for more than five years.  

Simon Hubbert

Simon Hubbert
Vice President International Sales

Mr. Hubbert was appointed Vice President International Sales in January 2008. Mr Hubbert started his career at the Royal Masonic Hospital as a Senior Anaesthetic Technician. He has more than 16 years experience in medical device sales and marketing, including seven years at Johnson and Johnson and another six years at Medtronic Inc., a leading U.S.-based medical technology provider of lifelong solutions to people with chronic disease, where he was Marketing Manager for its emergency response systems division in Europe. Mr. Hubbert joined the Company from Advanced Lifecare Solutions Ltd, a U.K.-based company which provides bespoke implementation solutions for automatic defibrillator programmes.

Board of Directors

Robert Gaines-Cooper
Group Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Gaines-Cooper founded LMA in July 1998 and was appointed its Group Chairman in May 2004.  He stepped down from his non-executive directorship of Orthofix International N.V. on December 5, 2006 and is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Venner Capital SA, Chairman of FMT and a Director of Chelle Medical Limited.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration from Kensington University Glendale California and has completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School, Boston.  He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

John Lim Kok Min
Executive Deputy Chairman

Mr Lim was appointed Group President and Director of LMA in October 2004. In December 2006 he stepped down from the position of Group President and was appointed Executive Deputy Chairman. He is currently Chairman of Senoko Power Limited and immediate past Chairman of the Building & Construction Authority. He serves on the Board of Directors and is Chairman or member of the Audit, Remuneration and the Nominating Committees of several listed and private companies. He is also the President and a fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors and a member of the Securities Industry Council. He holds a BA Hons (Econs) degree from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur.

Jane Gaines Cooper

Jane Gaines Cooper
Director

Mrs Gaines-Cooper was appointed Director in March 2000. She has served on the Board of Directors of LMA North America since its inception and is a founder director of Venner Group. She has been a Non-Executive Director of FMT since 2001. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Economics from Thames Valley University, London.

David Curtis-Bennett

David Curtis-Bennett
Director

Mr Curtis-Bennett was appointed Director in May 2004. Since 1994, he has been the Managing Director of Chelle Medical Limited and Inter Medical Supplies Ltd and serves on the Board of FMT. Since 2000, he has served on the Board of Directors of Venner and Venner Trading S.A.

Stephen Marzen

Stephen Marzen
Director

Mr Marzen was appointed Director in May 2004. He has been a Partner of Shearman & Sterling LLP since 1995. Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling LLP as an attorney in 1991, he served as Assistant to the Solicitor General in the United States Department of Justice and, before that, was a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Venner.

Trevor Swete

Trevor Swete
Director

Mr Swete was appointed Director in May 2004. He has spent 18 years as an investment banker and three years managing a commercial bank in Germany, as well as six years as a fund manager in the United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA) in England and Wales.

Alberto d'Abreu de Paulo

Alberto d'Abreu de Paulo
Independent Director

Mr d’Abreu de Paulo was appointed Director in August 2003. He is currently President and Managing Director of First Independent Trust (Curaçao) N.V. and President and Managing Director of Premier Bank International N.V.. He is a tax attorney in private practice and a member of the Supreme Audit Institution of the Netherlands Antilles. He is a certificated accountant and certificated tax attorney, admitted to the Tax Court of the Netherlands Antilles in September 1973.

Lim Hock Beng

Lim Hock Beng
Director

Mr Lim was appointed in May 2004. Since 1996 he has been the Managing Director of Aries Investments Pte Ltd, an investment holding company with its principal interests in investing in quoted securities and properties. Prior to that, he founded Lim Associates (Pte) Ltd in 1968 and was its Managing Director until his retirement in 1995. He currently serves on the Board of Directors as well as on the Audit Committee of Colex Holdings Limited, GP Industries Limited, Huan Hsin Holdings Ltd, King Wan Corporation Limited and VicPlas International Ltd.

Col. (Ret.) David Wong Cheong Fook

Col. (Ret.) David Wong Cheong Fook
Independent Director

Mr Wong was appointed Director in July 2004. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited, APL Japan Trust Management (Singapore), Pan-United Marine Limited, Ascendas-MGM Funds Management Limited and Teva Pharmaceutical Investments Singapore Pte Ltd. He is also a Board Member of the National Environment Agency. He is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ACA) in England and Wales and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Singapore.

David Chew Heng Ching

David Chew Heng Ching
Independent Director

Mr Chew was appointed Director in May 2004. He is the founding President of the Singapore Institute of Directors (“SID”) and currently Chairman of its Governing Council. He is also the immediate past Chairman of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce and was a Member of the Council on Corporate Disclosure and Governance. He is currently a Council Member of the Singapore Business Association. Mr Chew was a Member of Parliament and Deputy Speaker of the Singapore Parliament and he currently serves on the Board of Directors of various listed companies. A Graduate in engineering and economics, he is also a fellow of SID and CPA Australia.

Robin Sims, FCIS

Robin Sims, FCIS
Director

Mr Sims was appointed Company Secretary in October 2004. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries (FCIS) and has been working in company secretarial roles in public and private companies for all his working life. Since 1997, he has been working in a consultancy role involved in turnaround management, fund management, floatations and the acquisition and sale of businesses. He is also currently Company Secretary of 3DM Worldwide plc, an AIM listed company in the UK and is actively involved with a number of private companies in an advisory role.