Pulse Biosciences Enhances Executive Leadership Team

Pulse Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLSE), a company leveraging its novel and proprietary CellFX Nanosecond Pulsed Field Ablation (nsPFA) technology (“Pulse”), today announced enhancements to its executive leadership team to support its next pivotal phase of growth.

Proven atrial fibrillation medical technology leader Burke T. Barrett has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Concurrently, the Company announced the appointment of Kevin Danahy, former President and Chief Executive Officer, as Chief Commercial Officer. Mr. Danahy will now focus his full time leading the pilot launch of the recently FDA cleared CellFX nsPFA Percutaneous Electrode System.

“Burke is a very talented executive, who has demonstrated strong leadership and operational acumen throughout his medical device career. With Pulse’s focus on bringing the patient and physician friendly benefits of Nanosecond Pulse Field Ablation into electrophysiology and cardiac surgery, we are thrilled to have someone with Burke’s industry stature and expertise lead team Pulse,” said Robert W. Duggan, Executive Chairman of Pulse Biosciences. “Together with Burke’s expertise and Kevin leading as Chief Commercial Officer, Pulse Biosciences is positioned to unlock the full potential of our proprietarily designed and engineered CellFX nsPFA energy delivery system and its three novel proprietary end-effector devices.”

Mr. Barrett is a hands-on leader and executive with more than 35 years of experience building teams that bring novel, complex medical devices from concept, through design validation, clinical studies, regulatory approvals, and manufacturing scale-up to commercialization. During his eighteen years at CardioFocus, Inc., Burke held a number of positions of increasing responsibility and was part of the team that built a pioneering electrophysiology ablation device and a global commercial company, departing as CEO and President. Previously, he was part of the teams that successfully took two companies public, Biofield Corp. and Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc., and has been an officer of two public companies – Cyberonics, Inc., as Vice President of Business and Technology Development, and Cyberkinetics, as Vice President of Clinical Operations. Mr. Barrett was also an active member of the FDA’s Circulatory System Medical Devices Advisory Panel for four years. Currently, he sits on the Board of Directors of VDI Technologies. Mr. Barrett holds Bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University and a Masters in Business Administration from Kennesaw State University.