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Filing Date: 2015-07-22

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<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit&nbsp;10.1</font></b></p>
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<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">EXECUTION VERSION</font></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">VOTING AGREEMENT</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">VOTING AGREEMENT, dated as of July&nbsp;21, 2015 (this &#147;<u>Agreement</u>&#148;), among SJM International,&nbsp;Inc., a Delaware corporation (&#147;<u>Parent</u>&#148;), and the shareholders of Thoratec Corporation, a California corporation (the &#147;<u>Company</u>&#148;), listed on <u>Schedule&nbsp;A</u> hereto (each, a &#147;<u>Shareholder</u>&#148; and, collectively, the &#147;<u>Shareholders</u>&#148;).</font></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">RECITALS</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">WHEREAS, concurrently herewith, Parent, Spyder Merger Corporation, a California corporation and direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (&#147;<u>Merger Sub</u>&#148;), the Company and, solely with respect to certain provisions thereof, St. Jude Medical,&nbsp;Inc., a Minnesota corporation (&#147;<u>Ultimate Parent</u>&#148;), are entering into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the &#147;<u>Merger Agreement</u>&#148;; capitalized terms used but not defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Merger Agreement), which provides for, among other things, the merger of Merger Sub with and into the Company with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation in the merger (the &#147;<u>Merger</u>&#148;), whereby, except as expressly provided by Sections 2.1(b)&nbsp;and 2.3 of the Merger Agreement, all issued and outstanding Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration specified therein, in each case upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement;</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">WHEREAS, each Shareholder is the record and &#147;beneficial owner&#148; (within the meaning of Rule&nbsp;13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which meaning will apply for all purposes of this Agreement whenever the term &#147;beneficial owner,&#148; &#147;beneficially ownership&#148; or &#147;own beneficially&#148; is used) of Shares as set forth on <u>Schedule&nbsp;A</u> hereto (with respect to each Shareholder, the &#147;<u>Owned Shares</u>&#148;; the Owned Shares and any additional Shares or other voting securities of the Company of which such Shareholder acquires record and beneficial ownership after the date hereof, including, without limitation, by purchase, as a result of a stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, combination, reclassification, exchange or change of such shares, or upon exercise or conversion of any securities, such Shareholder&#146;s &#147;<u>Covered Shares</u>&#148;);</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">WHEREAS, as a condition and inducement to Parent, Merger Sub and Ultimate Parent entering into the Merger Agreement, Parent, Merger Sub and Ultimate Parent have required that the Shareholders enter into this Agreement; and</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">WHEREAS, the Shareholders acknowledge that Parent, Merger Sub and Ultimate Parent are entering into the Merger Agreement in reliance on the representations, warranties, covenants and other agreements of the Shareholders set forth in this Agreement and would not enter into the Merger Agreement if any Shareholder did not enter into this Agreement.</font></p>
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