Mr. Hawkins is the retired Chairman and CEO of Medtronic and has had a long and distinguished career in the Medical Devices Industry. Mr. Hawkins serves on several public, private, and non-for-profit boards.

He is Director of Biogen (BIIB: NASDAQ); Avanos Health (NYSE: AVNS); Virtue Labs; Baebies; AskBio; Cirtec Medical; and MiMedx (MDXG: NASDAQ). He is Chairman of the Board of Bioventus and lead Director of Immucor. Mr. Hawkins is the former Chairman and Co-Founder of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium ("MDIC”) and a past-president of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.

He was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering and is an AIMBE Fellow.

Mr. Hawkins was elected to the Duke University Board of Trustees in 2011 and currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board. Mr. Hawkins is also Chair of the Board of the Duke University Health System. He is a member of the NC Biotech board and serves on the Board of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation Society.

Mr. Hawkins has a B.S.E.E. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from the Darden School of Business, UVA.