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Mr. Heigel joined Thermage in May of 2002 as Senior Director of Operations and in July of 2003 he was promoted to the position of Vice President of Operations. He has more than 20 years of management experience involving engineering manufacturing supply chain management and product service related to scientific instrumentation capital equipment and related consumables. From 1995 until 2002 Mr. Heigel was Vice President of Manufacturing for Argonaut Technologies a manufacturer of automated synthesis equipment and chemistry consumables utilized in pharmaceutical and biotech drug discovery research. Mr. Heigel developed Argonaut's instrument manufacturing capability and introduced several successful instrument product lines that propelled Argonaut through a successful IPO in 2000. From 1988 to 1995 Mr. Heigel held Engineering and Operations Management positions at Microsensor Technology a manufacturer of innovative portable gas analyzers that was acquired by Agilent Technologies. Mr. Heigel earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University. | 