Richard S. Schneider

Dr. Schneider has served as director of SonoSite since April 2001.
From October 1990 until his retirement in June 1999, Dr. Schneider was general partner of Domain Associates in Princeton, New Jersey, a venture capital management firm focused on life sciences.
From April 1986 to July 1990, he served as Vice President of 3i Ventures Corporation, a venture capital company.
From June 1983 to December 1989, he served as President of Biomedical Consulting Associates, a biomedical products consulting company.
From 1967 to June 1983, he was Vice President and founder of Syva Corporation, a diagnostics company that was part of Syntex Corporation, a pharmaceutical company.
Dr. Schneider is a member of the boards of directors of Landec Corporation, a material sciences company, Selective Genetics Inc., a private gene therapy company, and AvanViva, a DNA tools company.
Dr. Schneider holds a B.S.
degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D.
degree in organic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Schneider also completed post-doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business.