Previous positions at Medtronic included serving as vice president of ventures technology and director, then vice president, of applied concepts research. Mr. Citron was elected a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in January 1993, has twice won the American College of Cardiology Governor's Award for Excellence, and in 1980 was inducted as a Fellow of the Bakken Society. He is the author of many publications and holds several pacing-related patents for medical devices. A member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Mr. Citron was voted IEEE's Young Electrical Engineer of the Year in 1979. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, where he was a research fellow in the Department of Neurology.

DENNIS R. CONNOLLY is a principal and a senior vice president of Johnson & Higgins, the world's largest privately held international insurance brokerage, human resource, and employee benefits consulting firm. Mr. Connolly came to J&H from the American Insurance Association, where he was responsible for developing and implementing policy positions and for supervising liability issues. He has served on numerous task forces and study groups, including two Joint Insurance Trade Association Task Forces on Major Exposures, the National Association of Manufacturers Product Liability Task Force, and the Keystone Center's Program on Compensation for Environmental Injuries. Mr. Connolly is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute, was an adviser to the American Law Institute Compensation and Liability for Product and Process Injuries Project, and is a vice chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Energy Resources Law, Tort and Insurance Practice Section. He is a graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and has a J.D. degree from the Brooklyn Law School.

BENJAMIN A. COSGROVE retired in 1993 as senior vice president for technical and government affairs for the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group (BCAG). In that position, he was responsible for all liaison with regulatory agencies in matters of design and technology and was BCAG's senior executive in safety matters. He also formerly served as senior vice president and general manager of BCAG's Engineering Division, responsible for all engineering functions, flight test engineering and operations, and government technical contacts. Mr. Cosgrove has been associated with almost all Boeing jet aircraft programs, including positions as director of engineering for the 707/727/737 Division, chief project engineer and director of engineering for the 767 program, and director of engineering for the Everett Division (747/767 programs). He is the recipient of numerous