Donna A. James has been a director of Boston Scientific since July 2015. She is the founder of Lardon & Associates LLC, a business development and executive advisory services firm, where she has served as president and managing director since April 2006. Ms. James has more than 30 years of diverse management and leadership experience, including her experience at Nationwide Insurance and Financial Services, where she served in a variety of roles beginning in 1981. In her time at Nationwide, she served in several leadership roles, including serving as president of Nationwide Strategic Investments, a division of Nationwide Insurance Company, from 2003 to 2006 at which time she had direct responsibility for developing and executing strategies for U.S. and global financial services subsidiaries and affiliates. Ms. James also is the founder and chair of The Center for Healthy Families, a non-profit in Columbus, Ohio, and the former president and appointed chair of the National Women’s Business Council. Ms. James currently serves as a director of Time Warner Cable Inc., L Brands, Inc., and Marathon Petroleum Inc., as well as FIS Group, a privately-held asset management and investment advisory firm. She received her B.S. in Accounting from North Carolina A&T State University.

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