Mr. Tiago M. Girao has been the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance at Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. since September 02, 2014 and serves as its Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Girao was at NuVasive, Inc. where he served as International Controller. As part of his role, Mr. Girao was responsible for leading a 20 person finance team and for overseeing all aspects of international finance and accounting operations. He was also involved in all major business and asset acquisitions and was the lead corporate financial and accounting executive for NuVasive's foreign units, including those in Japan, Latin America, Europe and Australia. Prior to his International Controller role, he served as Director, Financial Reporting, where he managed a team responsible for all corporate technical accounting and SEC related matters. Prior to joining NuVasive, Mr. Girao served as Senior Manager, Assurance at KPMG, Cytori's independent audit firm and was responsible for Cytori's account for six years. Prior to joining KPMG, Mr. Girao was a senior accountant for Ernst & Young in Brazil. Mr. Girao is a certified public accountant with 14 years experience in the accounting, finance and reporting for U.S. public companies and substantial experience in global finance and operations. He holds a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Fortaleza.