Corporate Governance - Biography

Dr. Grove became a director in 2018. He currently sits on the Membership Committee of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, and as an advisor to several emerging medical device companies. Most recently he served as Executive Chairman for the start-up ON Light Sciences, a manufacturer of transparent gel patches for accelerated tattoo removal that was acquired by Merz North America in 2016. Dr. Grove was co-founder of TRIA Beauty and served as that company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to TRIA Beauty, he co-founded Star Medical Technologies, negotiated its acquisition by Coherent and continued as president of Coherent Star. Dr. Grove’s extensive career in laser technology also included leadership roles at DermaCare, Inc., Cooper LaserSonics, Inc., and Plasma Kinetics, Inc. He began his career as a project leader for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Grove holds a Ph.D. in Instrumentation in the field of laser applications and an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and is a named inventor on 25 issued U.S. patents in the medical and laser fields.