Mr. Waggoner is the founder and former CEO of Staar Surgical Company (Nasdaq: STAA), a company with a market cap of $3.65 billion as of December 30, 2020. Since retiring from Staar in 1989, Mr. Waggoner has served on the Board of Directors of a number of early-stage, growth and mature companies and nonprofit organizations. He earned a Master of Education degree from the University of Arkansas and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College, where he was also a Senior Fellow studying psycholinguistics.