Inari Medical (NARI) Appoints Dana Mead, Jr. To Its Board

By Annie Baker ● Oct 2, 2021
  • Inari Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: NARI) announced it has added Dana G. Mead, Jr. to its board of directors. These are the details.

Inari Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: NARI) – a medical device company focused on developing products to treat and transform the lives of patients suffering from venous diseases – announced it has added Dana G. Mead, Jr. to its board of directors. Mead will serve as a member of the Compensation Committee of the board.

Between May 2019 to February 2021, Mead served as President and CEO of HeartFlow, a medical device company located in Redwood City, CA. Between November 2016 to May 2019, Mead served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Beaver-Visitec International, a medical device company located in Waltham, MA.

Previously, Mead was a Strategic Advisor and Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, having joined the firm in May 2005 where he served until June 2016. Mead was at Guidant Corporation, a cardiovascular medical device company, from 1992 to 2005, most recently as President, Guidant Vascular Intervention. Since July 2008, Mead has served as a member of the board of directors of Inspire Medical Systems, an NYSE-listed medical technology company. Since February 2010, Mead has served on the board of directors of Pulmonx Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed medical device company, and since June 2007 on the board of directors of Intersect ENT, a NASDAQ-listed medical device company. Mead also served on the board of directors of Teladoc, Inc., a NYSE-listed telehealth platform company, from August 2011 to December 2016.

KEY QUOTE:

“We are pleased to welcome Dana as a new independent director to our board. Mr. Mead’s decades of executive operating experience leading high growth med tech businesses, will be highly valuable to Inari as we enter the next phase of our mission to treat and transform the lives of patients suffering from venous thromboembolism.”

— Bill Hoffman, Inari’s Chief Executive Officer