Meet our team
Cutera's management team has extensive experience, providing the collective depth and business knowledge to successfully manage our business and world-class portfolio of products.
Cutera Senior Leadership
Sheila A. Hopkins
Interim Chief Executive Officer
Sheila A. Hopkins has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2021. Ms. Hopkins currently serves as a director for Prestige Consumer Healthcare, where she also serves on the Audit, Nominating & Corporate Governance and Compensation and Talent Management Committees. Among her executive leadership roles, Ms. Hopkins served as EVP and President, Global Vision Care for Bausch + Lomb. Prior to that, she held executive positions at Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble and Tambrands.
Stuart Drummond
Interim Chief Financial Officer
Stuart Drummond has served as the Company’s Vice President and Corporate Controller since July 2021. From November 2019 until June 2021, he served as Senior Director, Corporate Controller at Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. and from July 2016 to March 2019 he served as Corporate Controller of CareDx, Inc. Stuart gained his bachelor’s degree from Otago University, New Zealand, and graduate accounting qualification from Victoria University, New Zealand. Stuart obtained his Chartered Accounting certification in New Zealand with KPMG.

Michael Karavitis
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
As Chief Technology Officer at Cutera, Michael directs research and development activities ranging from early phase R&D all the way through product development. Previous to this role, Michael served as Vice President of Research and Development of Cutera from 2012 to 2015. Under his leadership, Cutera released multiple innovative platforms, as well as product line extensions including Enlighten (the world’s first dual wavelength, dual pulse duration picosecond aesthetic laser) and Excel HR.
In addition to starting his own company, Femtoblanc Inc., Michael has led various teams of engineers and scientists at a number of successful early to mid-stage companies, including LenSx (acquired by Alcon), Newport Corporation and Intralase Corporation (acquired by Advanced Medical Optics).
Michael graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Indiana University, and completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical and Material Physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is the named inventor in 10 U.S. patents and is the author of 17 publications in peer-reviewed journals.