On December 5, 2012, Scott A. Shuda was appointed to the board of directors of IRIDEX Corporation. Mr. Shuda, is the co-founder and Managing Director of BlueLine Partners, LLC, a special situations investment firm that focuses on publicly listed technology and healthcare companies. Prior to co-founding BlueLine Partners in 2003, Mr. Shuda served as General Counsel and Secretary to Vicinity Corporation, an online provider of enterprise location services and speech platforms, from 1999 until its acquisition by Microsoft in 2002, and prior to that Mr. Shuda was employed as an attorney in New York City and Silicon Valley.