Invuity, Inc. announced the appointment of medical device financial and operations executive James H. Mackaness as its chief financial officer, effective August 24, 2015. Mackaness will report directly to President and CEO Philip Sawyer. Mackaness brings more than 20 years of experience as a senior financial executive to the company, having worked for both public and private companies in the Bay Area.

His wide-ranging expertise includes financial and strategic planning, public reporting and controls, mergers and acquisitions, and operations management within the medical device and technology industries. Most recently, Mackaness served as chief financial officer and chief operating officer for IRIDEX Corp. Prior to IRIDEX, Mackaness was the CFO at two privately-held companies one of which was sold to Cisco Systems where he went on to assume a business development role.

Early in his career, he was an audit manager for Ernst & Young LLP.