Dr. Darlene Solomon

Dr. Darlene Solomon is a scientist by training who recently completed a 39-year career at Agilent Technologies, Inc. At Agilent, she served in numerous leadership roles – including as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President under three successive CEOs – and helped define the company’s technology strategy and R&D priorities.

As part of Agilent’s corporate transformation toward becoming a market-leading life sciences and diagnostics company, Darlene helped oversee three different separations of Agilent, Avago and Keysight. As a result, she brings critical expertise that would inform the appropriate division of Masimo’s IP in a separation of its Consumer Business, as well as the understanding of how best to lead and retain technical talent while executing forward-looking business growth.

Darlene is an independent director on the boards of Materion Corporation (NYSE: MTRN), where she is a past member of the Audit and Risk Committee and currently on the Compensation Committee and the Nominating, Governance, and Corporate Responsibility Committee, and of Novanta, Inc.(NASDAQ: NOVT), where she is a member of the Compensation Committee. Darlene is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and serves on multiple academic and government advisory boards focused on science, technology, and innovation. Darlene holds a BS from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from MIT.

William "Bill" Jellison

William “Bill” Jellison is a veteran medical technology executive and finance expert with decades of relevant experience, including as the former Chief Financial Officer of Stryker Corporation. Bill would bring extensive medical technology and financial oversight expertise. He would also be a natural fit to chair the Masimo Board’s Audit Committee, which has not been chaired by a director with any audit committee or even public company board experience in nearly five years. Bill presided over billions of dollars of M&A transactions during his tenure as Chief Financial Officer and would bring significant experience to the evaluation of a separation transaction at Masimo.

While at Stryker, Bill also oversaw all areas of international finance, including accounting, planning and analysis, SEC reporting, acquisition valuations, internal audit, tax and treasury activity. Prior to this, Bill spent 15 years at Dentsply International in a number of leadership positions, including Chief Financial Officer and as a Senior Vice President with full P&L responsibilities for some of Dentsply’s operating divisions in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Bill is an independent director on the boards of Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT) where he is chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Environmental, Health and Safety Committee, and of Anika Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ANIK), where he serves on the Capital Allocation Committee. He holds a BA from Hope College in Holland, Michigan.