Thomas F. Ackerman

Thomas F. Ackerman has served as a Director of CryoLife since December 2003. Mr. Ackerman currently serves as a financial consultant to Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. Mr. Ackerman served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. until August 2015, (NYSE: CRL), a position he held since 2005. Charles River Laboratories is a full service, early-stage contract research organization. Mr. Ackerman joined Charles River Laboratories in 1988 with over eleven years of combined public accounting and international finance experience. He was named Controller, North America in 1992 and became Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 1996. In 1999, he was named a Senior Vice President, and in 2005 he was named a Corporate Executive Vice President. Prior to joining Charles River Laboratories, Mr. Ackerman was an accountant at Arthur Andersen & Co. Mr. Ackerman is a Director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation. Mr. Ackerman received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts and became a certified public accountant in 1979 (his license is currently inactive).