Mr. Mann is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Alfred Mann Foundation, founded in 1985, and the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. The Foundation and the Institute are nonprofit research organizations devoted to development of advanced medical products in a variety of fields. Mr. Mann is also Chairman of the Southern California Biomedical Council and a Trustee of the University of Southern California.

Mr. Mann is Chairman of Advanced Bionics® Corporation, Second Sight, LLC, AlleCure Corporation, Quallion, LLC and Chairman Emeritus of Pacesetter® System, Inc., all companies founded by Mr. Mann. Mr. Mann is also Chairman of CTL Immunotherapy Inc. (CTL) and Pharmaceutical Discovery Corporation (PDC).


•Advanced Bionics Corporation develops, manufactures and markets systems for neuromuscular electrostimulation systems, and at this time sells cochlear stimulators to restore hearing for the profoundly deaf.

•Second Sight is an early stage company developing a visual prosthesis to restore sight to the blind.

•AlleCure is developing vaccines for eliminating allergies.

•Quallion manufactures components for use in medical and aerospace products.

•CTL is developing therapeutic vaccines primarily for treating cancer.

•PDC has developed stabilizing microencapsulation technology that can enable deep pulmonary, nasal and oral delivery of proteins and peptides as well as other drugs.

Mr. Mann formally retired as CEO of Pacesetter in 1993 but continued to serve as Chairman Emeritus. Pacesetter Systems, Inc., now a St. Jude Medical company, develops, manufactures and distributes cardiac pacemakers worldwide.

Mr. Mann had also founded a business in microinfusion pumps that was acquired by Siemens Corporation.

Prior to his involvement in the medical device industry, Mr. Mann had also been founder and was President of Spectrolab of Sylmar, California, for 16 years. After a vigorous early growth, Spectrolab joined Textron, Inc. in 1960. Spectrolab became a world leader in photovoltaic power systems, solar simulation, high intensity (airborne) illumination systems, optical thin films, etc. In 1960 Mr. Mann also founded and was President of Heliotek, which also became a Textron company. Heliotek, the world's leading supplier of solar cells and certain other special semiconductor devices, also produced high reliability batteries and optical coatings.

Before founding Spectrolab, Mr. Mann was a group supervisor at Technicolor Corporation, where he directed research and development in the fields of instrumentation, radiation damage, optical physics, multi-layer thin film vacuum deposition and digital and analog computer analysis.

In addition to his business activities, Mr. Mann has contributed significantly to numerous technical advances in medical devices, photovoltaic power conversion, illumination, radiometry, vacuum physics, thin-film optics and advanced methods of mathematical analysis. He holds numerous patents, with several pending, and has authored a number of scientific papers.

He is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles with extensive graduate work in nuclear and mathematical physics. Under Textron's sponsorship, Mr. Mann also attended an Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

Mr. Mann was born in 1925 in Portland, Oregon and has lived in Los Angeles since 1946. He has six children.

Some of Mr. Mann's recent honors have been:

Group Achievement Award NASA, 1981
Exceptional Public Service Award NASA, 1984
Pioneer in Cardiac Pacing Cardiostim, 1988
Master Entrepreneur of the Year Los Angeles, 1996
Citation Award; Engineer of the Year UCLA, 1997
Father of the Year Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 1998
Lifetime Achievement Award Independent Living Center of Southern California, 1998
Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award League for the Hard of Hearing, 1998
Pioneer in Cardiac Pacing 50th Anniversary of Cardiostim, 1998
Man of the Year San Fernando Valley Economic Alliance, 1998
Appreciation Award from The Children of PADRE, PADRE Foundation, 1998
USC School of Engineering Award,1999
Spirit of Edison Award for Community Service Thomas Edison State College, 1999
Man of the Year WISE Senior Services, 1999
Vision of the Future Award RP International, 1999
Humanitarian of the Year House Ear Institute, 1999
Named "One of the 10 Most Influential People on the Tech Coast Los Angeles Times, 1999
Reynolds Society Achievement Award Harvard Medical School, 1999
Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering 2000
Doctor of Humane Letters USC, 2001
Doctor of Human Letters The Johns, Hopkins University, 2001
National Academy of Engineering, 2001

MANN AT A GLANCE

Born:

1925 in Portland, Oregon

Education:

M. S., in physics from the University of California. Los Angeles. Extensive graduate work in nuclear and mathematical physics.

Professional:

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alfred E. Mann Foundation
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California
Chairman of the Southern California Biomedical Council
Trustee of the University of the University of Southern California
Chairman of Advanced Bionics Corporation
Chairman of Second Sight, LLC
Chairman of Allecure Corporation
Chairman of Quallion, LLC
Chairman of CTL Immunotherapy, Inc.
Chairman of Pharmaceutical Discovery Co., Inc.
Chairman Emeritus of Pacesetter, Inc.