Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance

The sections entitled “Proposal 1 — Election of Directors — Directors and Nominees,” “Corporate Governance — Committees of the Board and Meetings,” and “Share Ownership Information — Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance” in the Company's Proxy Statement for our 2020 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, which will be filed no later than 120 days after April 24, 2020, are incorporated herein by reference.

Set forth below are the names and ages of our Section 16(b) executive officers of Medtronic, as well as information regarding their positions with Medtronic, their periods of service in these capacities, and their business experiences. There are no family relationships among any of the officers named, nor is there any arrangement or understanding pursuant to which any person was selected as an officer.

The following table shows the name, age, and position as of April 24, 2020 of each of our executive officers:

Omar Ishrak, age 64, is Chairman of the Board of Directors and, effective April 27, 2020, Executive Chairman of Medtronic. Prior to that, Mr. Ishrak served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company beginning in January 2015 and of Medtronic, Inc., since June 2011. Mr. Ishrak served as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Healthcare Systems, a division of GE, from 2009 to 2011. Prior to that, Mr. Ishrak was President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Healthcare Clinical Systems from 2005 to 2008 and President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Healthcare Ultrasound and BMD from 1995 to 2004. Mr. Ishrak is also the independent Chairman of the Board of Directors of Intel Corporation.

Geoffrey S. Martha, age 50, is the Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic, a role he assumed on April 27, 2020. He served as President of Medtronic from November 2019 through April 2020 and joined the Board of Directors in November 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Martha served as Executive Vice President and President, Restorative Therapies Group, a role he held since August 2015. Mr. Martha previously served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development of the Company beginning in January 2015 and of Medtronic, Inc. beginning in August 2011. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director of Business Development at GE Healthcare from April 2007 to July 2011; General Manager for GE Capital Technology Finance Services from November 2003 to March 2007; Senior Vice President, Business Development for GE Capital Vendor Financial Services from February 2002 to October 2003; General Manager for GE Capital Colonial Pacific Leasing from February 2001 to January 2002; and Vice President, Business Development for Potomac Federal, the GE Capital federal financing investment bank from May 1998 to January 2001.

Michael J. Coyle, age 58, has been Executive Vice President and Group President, Cardiac and Vascular Group of the Company since January 2015 and of Medtronic, Inc. since December 2009. Prior to that, he served as President of the Cardiac Rhythm Management division at St. Jude from 2001 to 2007, and prior positions included serving St. Jude as President of the company’s Daig Catheter division and numerous leadership positions at Eli Lilly & Company. Mr. Coyle is also a current member of the Board of Directors of Haemonetics Corporation.

Richard Kuntz, M.D., age 63, has been Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific and Clinical Officer of the Company since January 2015 and of Medtronic, Inc. since August 2009. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and President, Neuromodulation from October 2005 to August 2009; and prior to that, he was an interventional cardiologist and Chief of the Division of Clinical Biometrics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief Scientific Officer of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute.

Bradley E. Lerman, age 63, has been Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Company since January 2015 and of Medtronic, Inc. since May 2014. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) from October 2012 to May 2014; Senior Vice President and Chief Litigation Counsel at Pfizer, Inc. from January 2009 to September 2012; Partner at Winston & Strawn from August 1998 to January 2009; partner at Kirkland & Ellis from March 1996 to July 1998; Associate Independent Counsel from October 1994 to March 1996; and Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois from February 1986 to September 1994. Mr. Lerman is also a current member of the Board of Directors of McKesson Corporation.

Karen L. Parkhill, age 54, joined the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in June 2016. From 2011 to 2016, Ms. Parkhill served as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Comerica Incorporated. Ms. Parkhill was a member of Comerica’s Management Executive Committee and the Comerica Bank Board of Directors. Prior to joining Comerica, Ms. Parkhill worked for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in various capacities from 1992 to 2011, including serving as Chief Financial Officer of the Commercial Banking business from 2007 to 2011. Ms. Parkhill is also a current member of the Board of Directors for American Express.

Carol A. Surface, age 54, has been Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of the Company since January 2015 and of Medtronic, Inc. since September 2013. Prior to that, she was the Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Best Buy Co., Inc. from March 2010 to September 2013, and held a series of HR leadership roles at PepsiCo Inc., from May 2000 to March 2010.

Robert ten Hoedt, age 59, has been Executive Vice President and President, EMEA of the Company since January 2015 and of Medtronic, Inc. since May 2014. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and President, EMEA and Canada from 2009 to 2014; Vice President CardioVascular Europe and Central Asia from 2006 to 2009; Vice President and General Manager, Vitatron from 1999 to 2006; Gastro-Uro leader from 1994 to 1999; and Marketing Manager, Neurological from 1991 to 1994.

Robert J. White, age 57, has been Executive Vice President and President, Minimally Invasive Therapies Group of the Company since December 2017. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and President, Asia Pacific from January 2015 to December 2017. He had served as President, Emerging Markets, President, Respiratory and Monitoring Solutions and Vice President and General Manager of Patient Monitoring at Covidien. He also held various leadership positions at GE Healthcare and IBM. Mr. White is also a current member of the Board of Directors of Smith & Nephew plc.

John Liddicoat, M.D.****, age 56, was named Executive Vice President and President, Americas Region in September 2018. Dr. Liddicoat joined Medtronic in 2006 as Vice President of Atrial Fibrillation Technologies. In December of 2006, Dr. Liddicoat was named Vice President and General Manager of the Structural Heart Disease Business. Beginning in August 2014, Dr. Liddicoat served as Senior Vice President and President, Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure (CRHF) Division.

Sean Salmon, age 55, has been Executive Vice President and Group President, Diabetes Group of the company since October 2019. Mr. Salmon previously served as Senior Vice President and President of Coronary and Structural Heart Business within the Cardiac and Vascular Group of the Company beginning in July 2014. Mr. Salmon is a seasoned leader who has been with Medtronic since 2004 and spent the past 16 years in increasingly senior levels of management. Prior to joining Medtronic, Mr. Salmon worked at CR Bard and Johnson & Johnson.

Brett Wall, age 55, has been Executive Vice President and President of Medtronic’s Restorative Therapies Group since November 2019. Mr. Wall previously served as Senior Vice President and President of the Brain Therapies division of Medtronic, which is part of the Company’s Restorative Therapies Group beginning in March 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Wall served as SVP and President of Medtronic’s Neurovascular business. Prior to joining Medtronic, he served as Covidien’s SVP and President of Neurovascular as well as Senior Vice President and President of the International Vascular Therapies business for Covidien. Mr. Wall also served as Senior Vice President and President, International at ev3, Inc. From 2000 to 2008, Brett held various marketing and sales positions with ev3, Inc. and Micro Therapeutics, Inc. Mr. Wall has also worked at Boston Scientific as Director of Marketing, Cardiovascular, Asia Pacifica and Marketing Manager, Japan, from September 1995 to September 2000.