Cardiva Medical, Inc. Appoints Two New Officers: Malcolm Farnsworth as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer and Tara Zerby as Vice President of Business Development and...( MOUNTAIN VIEW Calif. Jan. 17 /- C...),Health

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardiva Medical, Inc., a privately held medical device company and developer of the Boomerang Catalyst(TM) System is pleased to announce the addition of two officers to their management team. Malcolm Farnsworth joins Cardiva as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Tara Zerby joins Cardiva as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing.

"We are very excited to have Malcolm and Tara join Cardiva during this exciting stage in the company," says Augustine Lien, Chairman and CEO. "Their expertise in the medical device industry will be beneficial in the growth of our company."

Malcolm Farnsworth joined Cardiva in January 2008. Previously, Mr. Farnsworth served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at POINT Biomedical Corporation, a specialty pharmaceutical company developing pharmaceutical imaging agents to detect coronary artery disease. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Gynecare, Inc., a medical device company, that was acquired by Johnson & Johnson after its IPO in 1996. Before that he served as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Origin Medsystems, a minimally invasive surgical device company that was acquired by Eli Lilly and merged into Guidant. Mr. Farnsworth holds an M.B.A. degree from the Haas School, University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. degree in Business and Economics from Lehigh University.

Tara L. Zerby joined Cardiva in November 2007. Ms. Zerby brings with her over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and management in the medical device industry. Prior to joining Cardiva, she served as Vice President and General Manager of RTI-Cardiovascular, formerly the Alabama Tissue Center. Ms. Zerby operated her own consulting firm, assisting start-up medical device companies. She was also the executive Director of Marketing and Clinical Applications for Stereotax
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