Michael “Mick” Farrell was appointed ResMed’s CEO and has served as a director since March 2013. He joined the company in 2000, serving as president of the Americas region from 2011 to 2013, senior vice president of the global sleep apnea business unit from 2007 to 2011, and various senior roles in marketing and business development. 

Before joining ResMed, Mick worked in management consulting, biotechnology, chemicals and metals manufacturing at companies including Arthur D. Little, Sanofi Genzyme, DowDuPont, and BHP Billiton. 

Mick serves on the board of directors of ResMed, the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) and Zimmer Biomet (NYSE: ZBH), a multibillion dollar public company that provides implantable musculoskeletal medical devices for patients globally. He is also a member of two committees at Zimmer Biomet: Nominating and Governance as well as Compensation and Management Development. He also volunteers as a trustee for non-profit organizations: UC San Diego Foundation, Rady Children’s Hospital, the La Jolla Playhouse, and Father Joe’s Villages in San Diego, California. 

Mick holds a bachelor of engineering with first-class honors from the University of New South Wales, a Master of Science in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Carol Burt has served as ResMed’s director since November 2013, and is chair of its audit committee.

Ms. Burt has been a principal of Burt-Hilliard Investments since 2008, and since January 2013, has served as a senior advisor and operating council member to Consonance Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm focused on investing in the U.S. healthcare industry.

In addition to ResMed, Ms. Burt serves on the boards of IQVIA (NYSE: IQV), a global leader in healthcare information, innovative technology solutions, and contract research services; and WellDyne RX, a privately held pharmacy benefit management company, where she chairs the audit committee. Previously, she served on the public boards of Envision Healthcare, Inc., WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG), Vanguard Health Systems, Inc., Transitional Hospitals Corporation, and privately held KEPRO.

Ms. Burt was formerly an executive of WellPoint, Inc., now Anthem, Inc (NYSE: ANTM), where she served from 1997 to 2007, most recently as WellPoint’s senior vice president of corporate finance and development. She was a member of the executive team that built WellPoint from a small single-state Blue Cross plan to one of the country’s leading health benefits companies with nationwide reach, revenues of $61 billion, and market cap of $50 billion. She was responsible for Wellpoint’s corporate strategic planning and execution; mergers and acquisitions; strategic investments; finance, treasury, and real estate management; financial services and international insurance businesses.

Before WellPoint, Ms. Burt was senior vice president and treasurer of American Medical Response, overseeing its sale to Laidlaw, Inc. Previously, she spent 16 years at Chase Securities, Inc., now JP Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM), most recently as managing director and head of the Health Care Investment Banking Group. She founded and built Chase’s Health Care Group into the industry leader in health care financing.

Ms. Burt is a member of Women Corporate Directors, Women’s Forum, and the National Association of Corporate Directors. She most recently served as chair of the Fortune 1000 Working Group for the Women’s Leadership Foundation of Colorado. Over the years, Ms. Burt has served in leadership positions on numerous not-for-profit boards including current chair for The Nature Conservancy of Colorado.

Ms. Burt graduated magna cum laude, from the University of Houston, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration.

Karen Drexler has served as ResMed’s director since November 2017, and is a member of its compensation committee.

Ms. Drexler is CEO and a board member of Sandstone Diagnostics, Inc., a private company developing instruments and consumables for point-of-care medical testing. She has been on its board since 2014, and became CEO in 2016.

Ms. Drexler also serves on the board of Tivic Health, a bioelectric medicine company focused on relief of sinus pain and pressure. From 2011 to late 2017, she served as chairman of the board of Hygieia, Inc., a private digital insulin therapy company, and remains involved as an advisor to the CEO. She also acts as a senior strategic advisor for other early-stage companies, and is on the board of directors for the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education at Princeton University.

Ms. Drexler has served on numerous private company boards in the fields of diagnostics, medical devices, and digital health. She is an active mentor and advisor with Astia, a global nonprofit that supports high-potential female founders. She is a founding member of Astia Angels, a network of individual investors who fund such founders, and a lead mentor with StartX, the Stanford University incubator. She is also on the Life Science Council for Springboard, an accelerator for women-led technology-oriented companies. Through her work with Astia, Springboard, and StartX, she interacts with many promising young medtech companies.

Ms. Drexler was founder, president, and CEO of Amira Medical Inc., a private company focused on minimally invasive glucose monitoring technology, from 1996 until it was sold to Roche Holding AG in 2001. Before Amira Medical, she held management roles at LifeScan and played a key role in its sale to Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ).

Ms. Drexler graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. in chemical engineering from Princeton University, and earned an M.B.A. with honors from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Rich Sulpizio has served as ResMed’s director since August 2005. He is chair of its compensation committee, and a member of its nominating and governance committee.

Mr. Sulpizio retired as president and chief operating officer of Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) in 2001. He served on Qualcomm’s board of directors from 2000 until 2007. Mr. Sulpizio joined Qualcomm in 1991 and in 1994, was appointed president of Qualcomm Wireless Business Solutions. Four years later, he became Qualcomm’s president and COO. In 2002, he rejoined Qualcomm to serve as interim president of Qualcomm China and then took the helm of Qualcomm Europe in 2004. He was appointed as president in 2005 of MediaFLO USA, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and was chartered with overseeing the development and deployment of MediaFLO technology and bringing multimedia services to the wireless industry. His last assignment, from December 2009 to November 2013, was president and CEO of Qualcomm Enterprise Services (QES), which was sold to a private equity firm.

Before joining Qualcomm, Mr. Sulpizio worked at Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) and Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR).

From 2009 through 2018, Mr. Sulpizio served as a director of CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA), an information technology management software company. He currently serves as an honorary board member of the advisory board of the University of California San Diego’s Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center.

He holds a B.A. from California State University, Los Angeles, and an M.S. in systems management from the University of Southern California.