Thomas A. Fitzgerald

Thomas A. Fitzgerald has served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Velico Medical, Inc. since August 2006 and, for seven months in 2013, as Interim President and CEO. Mr. Fitzgerald has over 30 years of extensive financial management experience, including with life sciences companies both as an investment banker and chief financial officer, as well as a consultant to emerging growth companies. He was founding Managing Director for the healthcare investment banking firm of Leerink Swann, where he raised capital in both the private and public markets and completed mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions. As a chief financial officer, he has managed financial reporting, upgraded reporting systems and processes, improved working capital and cash flow, and led corporate financing as well as corporate governance activities.

Mr. Fitzgerald graduated with an M.B.A. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration and an A.B. in Economics from Stanford University. Mr. Fitzgerald served in the U.S. Army for nearly four years, initially as an enlisted man and, subsequently, an airborne-qualified infantry officer.