Judith M. Huber

NxStage Medical, Inc. is a medical technology company, which develops, manufactures, and markets products for the treatment of ESRD and acute kidney failure. It operates through the following business segments: System One, In-Center, and Services. The System One segment engages in the sale and rental of the System One and PureFlow SL equipment and the sale of disposable products in the home and critical care markets. The In-Center segment sells blood tubing sets and needles for hemodialysis primarily for the treatment of ESRD patients at dialysis centers and needles for apheresis. The Services segment includes revenues from dialysis services provided to patients at its recently opened NxStage Kidney Care dialysis centers. The company was founded by Jeffrey H. Burbank in December 1998 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

C. R. Bard, Inc. engages in designing, development, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, and sales of medical, surgical, diagnostic, and patient care devices. It sells its products to hospitals, individual healthcare professionals, extended care facilities, and alternate site facilities. The company was founded by Charles Russell Bard in 1907 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, NJ.

NinePoint Medical, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices. It designs, manufactures, and sells an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging platform for clinical use in gastroenterology, pulmonology, urology, gynecology, evaluation of human tissue microstructure. The company is headquartered in Bedford, MA.