Caren Mason - Stanley Electric President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

Ms. Caren L. Mason serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of the Company. Ms. Mason was elected to STAARs Board of Directors at its 2014 Annual Meeting, and she has served as STAARs Chief Executive Officer since March 1, 2015. From 2010 to 2012, Ms. Mason served as Chief Executive Officer of Verinata Health, Inc., a provider of noninvasive prenatal genetic sequencing tests for the early identification of fetal chromosomal abnormalities. In February 2013, Verinata was acquired by Illumina. Ms. Mason served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Quidel Corporation from 2004 to 2009, a publicly traded company engaged in the development, anufacturing and marketing of rapid diagnostic solutions at the professional point of care in infectious diseases and reproductive health. Prior to joining Quidel, Ms. Mason provided consultative services from 2003 to 2004 for Eastman Kodak Health Imaging as a result of the sale of MiraMedica, Inc., to Eastman Kodak. She served as President and Chief Executive Officer for MiraMedica, Inc., an early phase startup developing computer aided detection software for breast cancer, from 2002 through 2003. Prior to her tenure with MiraMedica, Inc., Ms. Mason served as Chief Executive Officer of eMed Technologies of Lexington, Massachusetts, a teleradiology and picture archiving and communications systems usiness. Ms. Mason served as General Manager of the Womens Healthcare business and as a General Manager in various capacities for the Services business of General Electric Healthcare from 1996 to 2000. Ms. Masons additional healthcare experience includes her tenure with Bayer AGAGFA from 1989 to 1996 where she last held the positions of Senior Vice President for Bayer Corporationrationrate Health Care and Senior Vice President for the AGFA Technical Imaging Business Group since 2015.