{"id":87459,"date":"2026-09-30T13:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penwebstaging.wpengine.com\/?post_type=leadership&#038;p=87459"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:54:27","slug":"ben-tompkins","status":"publish","type":"leadership","link":"https:\/\/www.penumbrainc.com\/au\/leadership\/ben-tompkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Tompkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben joined Penumbra as its third employee in 2004. Ben served as Director of Research &amp; Development from 2010 to 2013 and as Vice President Research &amp; Development from 2013 until his promotion to Executive Vice President of Development, in 2021. Ben received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and MS in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"pen_leadership_title":"Executive Vice President of Development","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87459","leadership","type-leadership","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penumbrainc.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/leadership\/87459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penumbrainc.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/leadership"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penumbrainc.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/leadership"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.penumbrainc.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/leadership\/87459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87460,"href":"https:\/\/www.penumbrainc.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/leadership\/87459\/revisions\/87460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penumbrainc.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}