Julie Shimer - Avanos Medical Independent Director

Dr. Julie A. Shimer, Ph.D. serves as Independent Director of the Company. Dr. Shimer is the Chairman of the Compensation Committee. She is currently a private investor and has 30 years of product development experience, including many years with major communications companies. From March 2007 to April 2012 she served as Chief Executive Officer of Welch Allyn, Inc., a manufacturer of frontline medical products and solutions, having served on the board of directors beginning in July 2002. Previously, Dr. Shimer was President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the board of directors of Vocera Communications, Inc., a provider of wireless communications systems. She also has served as general manager at 3Com Corporation and Motorola and was a product development leader at Motorola and ATT Bell Laboratories. She has served as the Chairwoman of Empire State Development Corporationration, the State of New Yorks economic development organization, and as an advisor to two private companies, Kitchology, a mobile platform empowering families dealing with special diets through the power of technology and community, and CPLANE Networks, a leader in endtoend data center and wide area network service orchestration that enables softwaredefined networking and network function virtualization services to be launched and managed in a single environment. She also serves on the boards of directors of three nonprofit organizations. Dr. Shimer serves as a director of Netgear, Inc., a provider of home and small business network solutions, Windstream Holdings, Inc., a leading telecommunications and cloud services provider, and Apollo Endosurgery, Inc., a medical device company focused on less invasive therapies for the treatment of obesity, and Masimo Corporationrationration, a medical technology company that develops and manufactures innovative noninvasive patient monitoring technologies. since 2014.