Management

Randall A. Lipps founded Omnicell in September 1992 and serves as the company's chairman, president and chief executive officer. From the company's founding until October 2002, Mr. Lipps was chairman of the board of directors. He assumed the additional role of president and chief executive officer in October 2002 and has provided the leadership for Omnicell's business expansion. Since taking on the day-to-day operations of the company, Mr. Lipps has brought in a well-known Silicon Valley management team and has focused the company on growth and technology leadership. During 2003, Omnicell was recognized as one of the top 150 Silicon Valley companies, as measured by market capitalization, by the San Jose Mercury News. Prior to founding Omnicell, Mr. Lipps served as the senior vice president at ST Holdings, a travel and marketing company. Mr. Lipps received both a B.S. in economics and a B.B.A. from Southern Methodist University.

J. Christopher Drew joined Omnicell in April 1994 and was named Senior Vice President, Operations, in January 2005. In January 2009, Mr. Drew was named Senior Vice President, Field Operations. From April 1994 to January 2005, Mr. Drew served in various management positions including Vice President of Branded Solutions and Director of Corporate Development. Previously, Mr. Drew was a financial analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and at Brentwood Associates, a private equity firm. Mr. Drew received a B.A. in economics from Amherst College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dan S. Johnston, vice president and general counsel, joined Omnicell in November 2003. From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Johnston was vice president and general counsel at Be, Inc., a software company, and from 1994 to 1999 was an attorney with the law firm Cooley Godward LLP. Mr. Johnston received a B.S. in computer information systems from Humboldt State University and a J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law.

Nhat H. Ngo, vice president, strategy and business development, joined Omnicell in November 2008. Prior to joining Omnicell, Nhat led strategic business development for a business unit of Covidien, where he had global responsibilities as vice president of business development and licensing. From 1999 to 2006, Mr. Ngo worked at BriteSmile, Inc., a direct-to-consumer aesthetic technology company and served in a variety of senior leadership positions in marketing, sales, operations, strategic planning, and corporate development. Prior to BriteSmile, Mr. Ngo practiced corporate law at Shaw Pittman in Washington, D.C. Mr. Ngo obtained a B.S. degree in commerce, with a concentration in finance, from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce and a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Marga Ortigas-Wedekind, vice president marketing, joined Omnicell in January of 2009. From February 2002 until October 2008, Ms. Ortigas-Wedekind was the SVP Marketing, Development, and Clinical Affairs of Xoft, Inc., a medical device startup in electronic brachytherapy used in the radiation treatment of cancer patients. From February 2000 until December 2001, she served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ProDuct Health, (purchased By Cytyc, Inc.) a startup involved in early breast cancer diagnosis and risk stratification. From January 1990 until February 2000, she worked at Guidant Vascular Intervention in various functions covering international and worldwide sales and marketing, culminating in the role of Director, Market Development. She has a BA in Political Economics from Wellesley College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Rob Seim, vice president, finance and chief financial officer, joined Omnicell in January 2006. Mr. Seim began his business career in 1982 with IBM, serving in a variety of financial positions at three divisions over the course of 14 years. From 1996 through 1999, he held a number of senior financial management positions at Bay Networks, which was acquired by Nortel Networks in September 1998. From 1999 until joining Omnicell, Mr. Seim served as CFO of three early-stage technology companies, including Villa Montage Systems, a provider of residential broadband access management systems that he co-founded in 1999, Candera, a maker of network-based storage controllers, and most recently, Mirra, a vendor of personal backup servers which was acquired by Seagate. Mr. Seim has a B.S. degree in accounting from California State University, Sacramento.