Mr. John D. Delafield has been a director for both Quinton Cardiology Systems Inc. and Quinton Inc. since April 1998. He has also served as a manager of W.R. Hambrecht/QIC Management, LLC, the manager of W.R. Hambrecht/ QIC, LLC since June 1998. After setting up Delafield and Hambrecht, Inc., an investment bank in 2001, Mr. Delafield has worked as its chairman and chief executive officer since December that year. Between 1998 and 2002, he held various positions at WR Hambrecht+Co, which included director of northwest operations, chief operating officer, director of investment banking and head of private equity. He is a director of WR Hambrecht+Co. He was also associated with Morgan Stanley as an investment banker in New York and Singapore from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Delafield did his MBA from Harvard Business School and an A.B. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University.

Quinton is internationally renowned for developing innovative, customer-oriented solutions to meet the changing demands of cardiology. It focuses on producing integrated and networked systems used in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with cardiac ailments. During a period, when many investment banking firms were scaling back, Mr. Delafield raised $5 million to start a new investment bank, Delafield and Hambrecht, Inc to help private and public companies in the Seattle region obtain financing. It also aimed at offering corporate finance and merger and acquisition services to companies in the technology, life sciences and consumer sectors as well as operating sales, trading and research divisions. Mr. Delafield saw is a big opportunity in Seattle to build a full-service brokerage firm that primarily focuses on smaller emerging companies.

He said, “There are 260 public companies in the state of Washington and Oregon, 90 plus percent of them are under a billion dollars market cap. If you reluctant to work with companies that don’t have a billion dollars of enterprise value, than you are really saying that you don’t want to work in the Northwest.”