New Vice President Joins Laser Diagnostic Technologies; VP to Head Launch of Advanced Glaucoma Detection Product

Business Wire, July 10, 2002

Business Editors

Laser Diagnostic Technologies Inc., developers of the GDx NFA -- the essential technology for detecting and tracking glaucoma by measuring the retinal nerve fiber layer -- has hired a new vice president of marketing to support the company's launch of the new GDx product featuring Custom Corneal Compensation.

Robert Foster joins LDT as vice president of marketing where he will be responsible for establishing and managing marketing direction for the company. Foster brings to the position almost 22 years experience in strategic marketing, sales, and business development.

Most recently Foster was president of Competitive Advantage Consulting Inc., a business consulting firm where he established strategies and set up sales, marketing and financial resources for companies such as VisionRx Inc, and Tracey Technologies. He also was employed by Carl Zeiss/Humphrey Systems Inc., most recently holding the position of director of marketing, Glaucoma Business Unit.

Foster is a graduate of the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Okla.

Dedicated to the preservation of vision through technology, Laser Diagnostic Technologies Inc. (www.laserdiagnostic.com) is a venture-funded emerging growth medical device company that develops and markets leading-edge diagnostic solutions with important clinical applications. The company invented and commercialized a new standard for glaucoma detection -- a proprietary ocular nerve fiber measurement instrument. Since its inception, LDT's mission has been to refine such technologies to make them readily available and affordable to health-care professionals and patients worldwide.