Anthony P. Bihl III

Group President, AMS

Anthony P. Bihl III joined Endo as Group President in June 2011 with the acquisition of American Medical Systems, Inc, (AMS), a medical device company serving urologists, urogynecologists, and gynecologists worldwide. Mr. Bihl was named President and Chief Executive Officer of AMS in April 2008. Prior to joining AMS, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics from January to November 2007, after its acquisition of Bayer Diagnostics, a division of Bayer HealthCare LLC, an operating unit of Bayer AG. Mr. Bihl had joined Bayer Diagnostics in January 2000, as Vice President of Finance and Administration for its' Laboratory Testing Business unit, and progressed through various executive positions before being named President of Bayer Diagnostics in September 2004. Previously, he served as Vice President of Medical Instrument Manufacturing at Sterling Diagnostic Imaging, Inc. from early 1997 through January 2000. Prior to joining Sterling, Mr. Bihl held various managerial positions of increasing responsibility within finance, operations, and service in the medical diagnostics, diagnostics imaging and biotechnology businesses, during his 20 years at E.I DuPont de Nemours. Mr. Bihl serves on the Board of Directors of Spectral Diagnostics, Inc. He earned his B.S. in Business Administration from the Pennsylvania State University.

Whitney D. Erickson

Senior Vice President, General Manager Men's Health

Whitney D. Erickson has served as our Vice President and General Manager of Men's Health since January 2007. Ms. Erickson has over 20 years of global experience including roles in process technology, operations leadership, marketing, business development and general management. She was previously with Honeywell International, where she spent 11 years, most recently as a Vice President for Business Development, involved in integration of various Honeywell acquisitions. Prior to Honeywell, Ms. Erickson was with the former James River Corporation, as well as General Electric. She has worked in a variety of industries including polymers, pharmaceutical packaging and chemical intermediates as well as security hardware and power transformation.

Maximillian D. Fiore

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Maximillian D. Fiore was named our Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in August of 2009. Mr. Fiore has over 25 years experience in Engineering, R&D, Quality, International and Manufacturing. Most recently, he was Sr. Vice President of Research, Development and Operations at OmniSonics Medical Technologies in Wilmington, Massachusetts. OmniSonics is a venture-backed medical device company focused on developing breakthrough products for the treatment of vascular occlusive disease. Prior to OmniSonics he was Vice-President of R&D for Smith & Nephew Endoscopy division in Andover MA. From 1994 until 2003 he was Vice President of Engineering at Aradigm Corporation in California. Prior to that, Mr. Fiore was the Director of Engineering at Johnson & Johnson - Lifescan from 1990 to 1994. Prior to that Mr. Fiore held Managerial positions at Abbott Laboratories from 1982 until 1991. Mr. Fiore holds undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Bio-Medical Engineering from Northwestern University and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Christine R. Kowalski

Sr. Vice President, Global Operations & Supply Chain

Christine R. Kowalski has served as Senior Vice President of Global Operations and Supply Chain since December 2011. Ms. Kowalski comes to AMS with an extensive range of medical device and business experience. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President, Global Operations and Supply Chain at ev3 (Covidien). Prior to that Ms. Kowalski spent 18 years at Boston Scientific/Guidant where she held various senior leadership positions, including Group Vice President of Operations for BSC Vascular Access, Vice President of Global Operations for Guidant Vascular Intervention, General Manager of Guidant Puerto Rico and Vice President of Global Control and Reengineering for Guidant. In addition, she held various leadership roles in manufacturing, finance, quality and public accounting.

Ms. Kowalski holds an M.S. in Management with concentrations in Operations and Strategic Management from Purdue University and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Dakota. Christine is also a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

Joe W. Martin

Sr. Vice President and General Manager, BPH Therapy

Joe W. Martin has served as Sr. Vice President and General Manager since April 1, 2009. Mr. Martin brings over 25 years of leadership experience in medical products, including capital equipment and surgical products. Most recently, Martin served as the CEO of Milestone Scientific, a leading provider of medical and dental solutions. Prior to Milestone Scientific Martin spent 13 years at Bayer Healthcare in a variety of leadership positions, including president of the diabetes care division. Before joining Bayer Healthcare, he held leadership positions of increasing responsibility in sales and marketing, including international roles, during his 12 years in the diagnostics division of Abbott Laboratories.

John F. Nealon

Senior Vice President, General Manager Women's Health

John F. Nealon has served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Women's Health since April 2008. Prior to his appointment as General Manager, Mr. Nealon served as Senior Vice President of Business Development from April 2005 to July 2008. From January 2002 to April 2005, he served as Vice-President of Global Marketing at AMS. Mr. Nealon has over 15 years of experience in the medical device industry. From 1996 to 2001, he served on the management team at Survivalink, a start-up medical device company which developed and marketed automated external defibrillators (AEDs). His final three years at Survivalink, he served as Vice-President, Marketing and International Sales. In 1996, he served as Director of Product Marketing for Summit Medical. From 1989 to 1996, he served in a variety of global product marketing roles at GE Medical Systems in the x-ray, surgery and cardiology businesses.

Derrill Palidwar

Senior Vice President, General Manager Europe/Middle East/Africa Region

Derrill Palidwar was named Senior Vice President and General Manager for the EMEA region in March 2011. Mr Palidwar has over 25 years of global experience in Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals. Most recently, Mr. Palidwar served as Senior Vice President, Regional Business Unit Europe with Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH based in Frankfurt, Germany. Prior to this, Mr. Palidwar worked as Vice President of Marketing for Allergan EMEA working from their UK Headquarters. In addition, Mr. Palidwar held a variety of global and national leadership roles during almost 20 years with Bayer Healthcare working in Germany, Australia, USA and his native Canada. Mr. Palidwar has led global launches of numerous pharmaceutical and medical device brands and had leadership roles in 5 large acquisitions and mergers.

Michael E. Ryan

Vice President, General Manager Asia Pacific/Latin America Region

Michael E. Ryan has served as our Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific/Latin America Region, since January 2009. Mr. Ryan has more than 22 years of Sales and Marketing experience within the U.S. and International AMS sales organization. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as our Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Intercontinental from May 2007 to January 2009, and he was Area Sales Director, responsible for the Eastern United States, from November 2005 to May 2007. He has opened and expanded AMS direct affiliate offices around the globe and developed the extensive international distributor sales team in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Richard D. Staples

Vice President, US Sales

Richard D. (Rick) Staples was named Vice President US Sales in November 2010. Rick has over 35 years of successful medical device sales, marketing, and sales leadership experience in his career, recently celebrating his 26 year anniversary with American Medical Systems (AMS). While with AMS, Rick has won awards for Top Sales Person of the Year, as well as Regional and Area Sales Director of the Year.

Prior to his appointment as Vice President, Mr. Staples held a number of leadership positions during his career with AMS. He has previously served as National Sales Manager and most recently as Senior Director, US Sales.