Key Corporate Management

César M. García has been a Director since November 2003 and Chairman of the Board since November 2007. He joined IRIS in January 2002 as our Executive Vice President and was appointed President in June 2003 and Chief Executive Officer in November 2003. Mr. García has over 30 years of experience in design, manufacturing and commercialization of medical devices. From 1998 through 2001, Mr. García was Sr. Vice President, Operations and Program Management for Cytometrics Inc., an early stage manufacturer of non-invasive, photonics-based medical devices. From 1994 to 1998, he was Vice President of Operations and Engineering at Datascope Corp., manufacturer of medical devices for interventional cardiology, anesthesiology and critical care monitoring. From 1974 to 1994, Mr. García worked with Bayer Diagnostics (now Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics) assuming positions of increased responsibility including General Manager of Technicon Electronics Corp., a subsidiary of Bayer USA and Director of Worldwide Hematology Manufacturing and Cellular Diagnostics Research and Development. Mr. García earned his B.S. in Industrial Engineering (Cum Laude) at the University of Puerto Rico and received an Advanced Management Certificate from Pace University.

Martin S. McDermut joined IRIS in May 2010 as Acting Chief Financial Officer. Mr. McDermut is a highly seasoned financial executive who previously served as CFO of IRIS from 1995 to 1999. Prior to joining IRIS, Mr. McDermut provided chief financial officer and interim management advisory services since 2007. Since January 1, 2009, Mr. McDermut has been managing director of Avant Advisory Group, a financial advisory and management consulting firm to entrepreneurial and middle market companies. Prior to joining Avant Advisory Group, Mr. McDermut provided financial and management consulting services to various clients as principal of his own financial consulting firm. From February 2000 to March 2006, he was Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary of Superconductor Technologies, Inc., a wireless equipment manufacturer and publicly traded company. Mr. McDermut earned a Master’s Degree of Business Administration in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Southern California. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant, Certified Merger & Acquisition Advisor and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, Financial Executives Institute, and the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors.

Thomas E. Warekois joined IRIS in March 2007 as our Corporate Vice President and President of the Iris Diagnostics Business Unit. Prior to joining IRIS, Mr. Warekois spent 27 years with the Bayer HealthCare Diagnostics Division (now Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics), based in Tarrytown, N.Y. During his tenure, Mr. Warekois held several senior executive positions including Senior Vice President of Marketing for all products of the Laboratory Testing Segment, and twice as General Manager of Bayer Diagnostics for the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa regions with separate assignments living in France and the UK. He also served as Vice President of Hematology Marketing launching the ADVIA 120 and ADVIA 60 product lines. Mr. Warekois earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY plus two advanced degrees – an MBA in Strategic Marketing from Pace University, New York and a MS in Biochemistry from the New York College of Medicine in Valhalla, N.Y. Mr. Warekois also served as a member of the board for the DxMA (Diagnostic Marketing Association) organization promoting industry marketing excellence.

John Yi joined Iris in September, 2003 as Vice President of Diagnostics Manufacturing and was promoted to Corporate Vice President of Operations in October 2005. Mr. Yi oversees all manufacturing operations and facilities for the Corporation. Prior to joining Iris, Mr. Yi held the position of Vice President of Operations with Alcatel Corporation (formerly Xylan) from 1996 to 2002. Prior to him joining Alcatel, he worked for 14 years in the computer and telecommunications industries, where he held middle and senior management positions in manufacturing, supply chain management and program management in companies such as Micropolis, Seagate, and TeleVideo. Mr. Yi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration – Accounting from California State University in Hayward, California.

Robert A. Mello joined Iris in April 2000 as Corporate Vice President and President of the Iris Sample Processing Division. Mr. Mello has 34 years of experience in medical device manufacturing, service, marketing and engineering. Prior to joining Iris, from 1988 to April 2000, Mr. Mello was an operations executive with bioMerieux, which designs, manufactures and markets medical instruments and consumables for immunodiagnostic and microbiology laboratories worldwide. Among other positions with bioMerieux, he was Vice President of Operations at their Boston Immunodiagnostics facility and Vice President of Disposables Manufacturing – Clinical Microbiology. Prior to joining bioMerieux, Mr. Mello held senior management positions with Medical & Scientific Designs, an in-vitro diagnostics company where he was on the founding team in 1983 and Ortho Diagnostics Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson. Mr. Mello holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Bristol College in Fall River, MA and a B.S. in Management from Leslie University, Boston, MA.