STAAR Surgical Adds Arthur Butcher and Wei Jiang to Board of Directors - Seite 2

STAAR also announced today that director K. Peony Yu., M.D., has indicated that she does not intend to stand for re-election to the Board upon the expiration of her current term in June 2024. Tom Frinzi, STAAR’s Chair of the Board, stated, “Peony leveraged her vast clinical and patient knowledge as a Board member, and STAAR appreciates her many contributions to our Board during her tenure. Peony has been an important part of governance and decision-making during her more than three years on the Board, and she helped us build a strong foundation for future growth. We wish her the best in her future endeavors.”

With the appointment of Messrs. Butcher and Jiang to the Board, the STAAR Surgical Board is now comprised of eight directors, seven of whom are independent non-employee directors. Other current members of the Board include Stephen Farrell, Tom Frinzi, Aimee Weisner, Elizabeth Yeu, M.D., K. Peony Yu, M.D., and Lilian Zhou, CFA.

About STAAR Surgical

STAAR, which has been dedicated solely to ophthalmic surgery for over 40 years, designs, develops, manufactures and markets implantable lenses for the eye. These lenses are intended to provide visual freedom for patients, lessening or eliminating the reliance on glasses or contact lenses. All of these lenses are foldable, which permits the surgeon to insert them through a small incision. STAAR’s lens used in refractive surgery is called an Implantable Collamer Lens or “ICL,” which includes the EVO ICL product line. More than 2,500,000 ICLs have been sold to date and STAAR markets these lenses in over 75 countries. To learn more about the ICL go to: EVOICL.com. Headquartered in Lake Forest, CA, the company operates manufacturing and packaging facilities in Aliso Viejo, CA, Monrovia, CA and Nidau, Switzerland. For more information, please visit the Company’s website at www.staar.com.

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The Staar Surgical Stock at the time of publication of the news with a raise of +8,17 % to 35,50USD on Tradegate stock exchange (11. März 2024, 22:26 Uhr).