Mr. Michael joined the Board of Directors in December 2006 and was appointed as our President and Chief Executive Officer from April 1, 2008 to his retirement on August 31, 2018. From 2000 to March 2008, Dr. McNally served as Chief Executive Officer of Cell Dynamics LLC, a cGMP laboratory services company. Previously, Mr. Michael was a co-founder and Senior Vice President of Clinical Research for CryoLife, Inc., a pioneering company in transplantable human tissues.

He has over 35 years of experience in academic and corporate clinical investigations, management, research, business, quality and regulatory affairs. Dr. McNally is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, serves on the advisory boards of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Dupree College of Management at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is a former Chairman of Georgia Bio, a trade association.

Dr. McNally graduated with a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.