Lishan Aklog

Dr. Aklog has been PAVmed’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since the company’s inception. Dr. Aklog also serves as Co-Managing Partner of HCFP, a financial advisory and investment firm, since May 2014, and as a

co-founding Partner of both Pavilion Holdings Group (“PHG”), a medical device holding company, since its inception in 2007 and Pavilion Medical Innovations (“PMI”), a venture-backed medical device incubator, since its inception in

Dr. Aklog has been a Senior Advisor and/or Director of PMI portfolio companies Saphena Medical Inc. since

February 2013, Kaleidoscope Medical LLC since February 2013 and Cruzar Medsystems Inc. since July 2013.

Dr. Aklog previously served as Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Vortex Medical Inc., a PHG portfolio company, from its inception in 2008 until its acquisition in October 2012 by AngioDynamics Inc. (Nasdaq: ANGO) for $55 million. Dr. Aklog has been a consultant to AngioDynamics since 2012, Biomet Inc. since 2009 and Atricure Inc.

(Nasdaq: ATRC) since 2007. He previously served as a consultant to Edward Lifesciences Corp. (NYSE: EW), from 2007 to 2012 and On-X Life Technologies Inc. from 2009 to 2012.

Dr. Aklog also previously served on the Scientific Advisory Boards of numerous leading medical device companies, including Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Guidant Cardiac Surgery (now, Maquet Cardiovascular) and Cardiovations (then, a division of Johnson & Johnson).

Dr. Aklog is an inventor on 11 issued patents and over 30 patent applications, including the core patents of Vortex Medical’s AngioVac system. Prior to entering the medical device industry full-time in 2012, Dr. Aklog was, from 2006 to 2012, Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery and Chair of The Cardiovascular Center at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center’s Heart and Lung Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. From 2002 to 2006, Dr. Aklog was Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Aklog was Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory and an attending cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.