Board of Directors

Anthony P. Bihl III has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2020. Prior to joining our board of directors, Mr. Bihl served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of managers of Bioventus, LLC from December 2013 to April 2020. From June 2011 through June 2012, Mr. Bihl was Group President of American Medical Systems, or AMS, a subsidiary of Endo Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Bihl was President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of AMS from April 2008 until Endo acquired AMS in June 2011. Mr. Bihl also served as Chief Executive Officer of the Diagnostics Division of Siemens Medical Solutions from January to November 2007, and as President of the Diagnostics Division of Bayer HealthCare from 2004 through 2006.

Mr. Bihl is currently Chairman of the board of directors of Spectral Medical, Inc., a publicly-traded Canadian company and has served as a member of the board of directors of Spectral Medical, Inc. since April 2008. In addition, since July 2020, Mr. Bihl has served on the board of directors of Meridian Bioscience Inc. From March 2016 to May 2020, Mr. Bihl served as a member of the board of directors of Nuvectra Corporation and, prior to March 2016, served on the board of directors of Integer Holdings Corporation before it spun off Nuvectra. In addition to the foregoing, Mr. Bihl also serves and has served on the board of directors for several privately held companies, and is a member of the board of directors of the Arthritis Foundation. Mr. Bihl received a B.S. in business administration from the Pennsylvania State University.

Carolyn Beaver joined the Board of Sonendo in October of 2021. Ms. Beaver has served as a director and member of the audit committee of MaxLinear, Inc. since December 2018 and as the chair of its audit committee since February 2021. She has also served as a director and chair of the audit committee and member of the compensation and nominating and governance committees of MediciNova, Inc. since October 2020, and Ms. Beaver served as a director of Organovo Holdings, Inc. from February 2019 to September 2020, where she chaired the audit committee and was a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee from September 2019 to September 2020. Ms. Beaver was a director of Commerce National Bank, Newport Beach, California, chair of its audit committee and a member of its asset/liability committee from 2005 until the bank was acquired in 2013.

Ms. Beaver previously held several positions at Sequenom Inc., a life sciences testing company, including Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President from March 2015 to October 2016, Chief Financial Officer from June 2014 to March 2015, and Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer from June 2012 to June 2014. In addition, Ms. Beaver previously served as Corporate Vice President and Controller of Beckman Coulter, Inc., a biomedical laboratory instrument and test company, from August 2005 until June 2012, and was named Chief Accounting Officer in October 2005, a position she held until July 2011, following the acquisition of Beckman Coulter, Inc. by Danaher Corporation. She also served as interim Chief Financial Officer of Beckman Coulter from July 2006 through October 2006. Ms. Beaver served as an audit partner with KPMG LLP from 1987 to 2002. Ms. Beaver received a B.S. in business administration from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Bjarne Bergheim has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President and as a member of our board of directors since 2008. Mr. Bergheim was our first employee and previously served as our Chief Operating Officer from 2006 to 2008. Prior to joining us, Mr. Bergheim was a co-founder and a member of the management team of Fjord Ventures, LLC, a life science accelerator located in Laguna Hills, California focused on building and operating companies in the medical device, diagnostic and biopharmaceutical sectors. Previously, Mr. Bergheim was the first employee of 3F Therapeutics, Inc., which was acquired by ATS Medical and later by Medtronic, Inc. Mr. Bergheim received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Irvine and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Mr. Bergheim also studied cardiovascular and biomedical engineering at NTNU, Norway in collaboration with Stanford University and California Institute of Technology.

Olav Bergheim has served as a member of our board of directors since he co-founded our company in June 2006. Mr. Bergheim has over 30 years of experience in creating and managing life science companies. In addition to co-founding our company, he is a founder of Volcano Corporation, 3F Therapeutics (acquired by Medtronic), Glaukos Corporation, Vessix Corporation, Adagio Medical, Inc., YAP Therapeutics, Inc., Anaxiom Corporation, Kato Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Prelude Corporation. Mr. Bergheim is also the founder and principal partner of Fjord Ventures LLC, a life science accelerator located in Laguna Hills, California. Prior to starting Fjord Ventures in 2005, Mr. Bergheim spent 10 years at Domain Associates LLC as a company creator and general partner. Prior to Domain, Mr. Bergheim served as a Corporate Vice President of Baxter Healthcare, where he spent 18 years in leadership and operating roles at U.S. and international locations. Mr. Bergheim previously served on the board of directors of Glaukos Corporation from 1999 to 2016, Volcano Corporation from 1999 to 2009 and Vessix Corporation from 2006 to 2012. Mr. Bergheim also serves and has served on the board of directors for several privately held companies, including Prelude Corporation, Adagio Medical, Inc., Kato Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Anaxiom Corporation and YAP Therapeutics, Inc. Mr. Bergheim received a B.S. and an M.S. in pharmacy from the University of Oslo and completed the Executive M.B.A. program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.

Raj Pudipeddi joined the Board of Sonendo in December 2021. He brings almost 3 decades of business leadership and brand building experience across consumer goods, medical devices and telecom, and in scaling businesses across regions and cultures. Raj served in various executive roles from February 2019 to November 2024 at Align Technology, a leading global medical device company, including as Managing Director – Americas, EVP and Chief Marketing Officer. From February 2017 to May 2018, he served as the Director and EVP, Consumer Business and Chief Marketing Officer at Bharti Airtel, an India telecom services provider. Prior to Bharti Airtel, Raj spent about 22 years at Proctor & Gamble, where he served in a number of leadership roles across businesses in the North American, Asia Pacific, and Latin American regions, including as SVP, North America, Oral Care. Raj earned an M.B.A degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Gandhi Institute of Technology in India.