Contributors 2019

Suneel provides strategic counseling for obtaining and leveraging global patent protection, evaluating and avoiding intellectual property risks.

Aida is a Business Development Manager at HealthBegins.
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Mr. Auch is the owner of Auch Company, LLC, a search practice with a focus in securities analysis, investment banking, capital markets, investment management, and private banking.

George been the Assistant Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at Medmarc Insurance Company for over 10 years. Medmarc is the superior provider of liability insurance and related risk management solutions for the medtech industry.

Dr. David Baer leads International Sales and Marketing for Prytime Medical Devices, Inc., a clinical phase medical device company specializing in intravascular hemorrhage control products.
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Co-founder and Managing Partner of the Cancer Impact Fund. Former entrepreneur, advisor, board member, and investor in multiple early-stage ventures and 20+ years of experience.

Albert Baker is the Corporate Director of Hackensack Meridian Health’s Life Sciences and Innovation sector. He has been driving innovation system-wide and building an investment portfolio.

AIB provides banking solutions and sector expertise in the healthcare and life sciences markets. Prior to AIB, I worked in venture capital for eleven years supporting the growth of innovative Irish companies and achieved for a number of successful exits.

Dr. Enke Bashllari is a neuroscientist and venture investor who is passionate about radical innovation in healthcare driven by novel models of care delivery and frontier technology applications to medicine.
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With 30+ angel investments in the past few years, Mike is a financial executive, investor, and company advisor. He is the Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee at Dextera Surgical, Inc. and sits on the Board of Directors for Band of Angels.
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Brian Benson is the Director of Entrepreneurship & Commercialization at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), oversees all aspects of the Magnify incubator and driving strategic initiatives that support the growth of entrepreneurship and industry f
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Mike co-founded Experien Group in 2003 with Darlene Crockett-Billig. His entire 40+ year professional career has been involved with regulatory affairs, quality systems, clinical research, and general management for medical device companies.

David Black is a registered patent attorney and Principal at Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner.

J.D. is Managing Director at TreeHouse Health where he leads business development and is responsible for executing investments in portfolio companies.

Piers A. Blewett is a patent attorney and former Vice President and Chief Counsel at Kimberly-Clark Corporation. He is now Principal at Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner. His current practice includes strategic IP counseling in med devices.
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I am a former laboratory neuroscientist but have been working in the area of scientific grant and program management for the past 20 years, currently serving as the scientific program coordinator of Defense Health Program funds.

Carl Bouthillette is a senior program officer for the CHCF Health Innovation Fund and also leads the screening and evaluation process for HealthTech Capital, a network of angel investors focused on health care IT companies.
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Runs Alira Health’s US location in Boston. Has run strategy projects in fluid management, medical imaging and infection control. Has developed a strong expertise in the medical device contract manufacturing market and has executed many M&A projects.

Experienced in the conception, development, launch, and turnaround of high-impact and disruptive technologies in the medical device and Pharmaceutical industries.

Tom Brennan joined ARCH in 2008 as a Venture Partner. He has special focus on ARCH activities at Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Life Sciences Accelerator in New York.

Terri has more than 20 years of healthcare industry experience working with and evaluating innovative technologies in global markets. She is a Venture Partner with Epidarex Capital. Prior to this, Terri was a member of the Senior Leadership Team at Edwar
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Lynn is a Manager in the Marketing and Business Development Department at medmarc and also has experience at the Kerxton Insurance Agency. She received a BS in Animal Science at Virginia Tech.

Brian Chen is passionate about bringing healthcare innovation into market by addressing evidence and reimbursement needs. He is a statistician by training with an entrepreneurial and enterprising personality.

Kevin joined MVM in 2016. Prior to MVM, he worked across the life science and healthcare sector as a consultant at Bain & Company. Kevin completed his PhD in Oncology at the University of Cambridge.
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Pavan Choksi is an Investment Associate at Arkitekt Ventures, an early stage healthcare venture fund based in New York City that specializes in investments in novel models of healthcare delivery including digital therapeutics.
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Sean specializes in identifying technologies with commercial potential to emerging markets, creating business strategies and roadmaps, and directing the resulting product and business development efforts for medical and life sciences applications.

Dana Deardorff is the Senior Director of the Center for Device Innovation @ Texas Medical Center. Dana brings more than 20 years of experience in the medical device industry in various roles bridging technology and business.

Stefanie leads Consumer sector efforts to manage a portfolio of innovative external partnerships, collaborations and investments, which currently reach across a variety of broad and diverse sectors.
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Cynthia “Penny” Doss Program Analyst for the Principal Assistant for Acquisition Office U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.

Cepta completed a Ph.D. in Biotechnology in the National University of Ireland, Galway and has over 20 years of experience in biotech and biopharma industry. Since joining Enterprise Ireland Cepta has had roles in Technology Transfer & Lifesciences.

Howard is a medical device executive accomplished in all phases of medical product development and operations in a variety of organizational structures. He is currently CEO of ART, a broad based drug delivery platform based on medical grade plant resins.
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Linda develops strategic partnerships with startups and corporations and academia. She is focused on jointly developing products, technologies and business models where Gore materials can uniquely add value.
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Oversees financial and accounting management for the MTEC entity, and review and approve payment of consortium manager’s invoices

I have experience in startups including in the travel and healthcare space. I now run the outbound investing portion of Outcomes Fund, a family office based venture capital investment fund.

Growth oriented healthcare business leader with a strong track record of delivering results in P&L management, customer engagement, business development and strategic planning.

Shelly’s goals include being a valued partner to my customers and proposing solutions to help drive innovation. She represents Molex and Phillips-Medisize who support electronics, drug delivery, and next gen technologies everyday.
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Michele Fowler-Stewart is Director, New Business Development in Johnson & Johnson’s Medical Devices group.
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Stacy Gilroy is the Owner/Principal of Stacy Gilroy Consulting. Stacy partners with small or early stage companies on initiatives to help create, build or renew a robust operational foundation.
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Experienced in starting, funding, growing and high-ROI exiting high-tech and medtech companies with worldwide sales.
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Claudio is passionate about partnering with entrepreneurs to build great companies. He has a deep belief in innovation and entrepreneurship as a force for good, and is focused on building breakthrough platforms in Cardiovascular and Metabolic diseases.

Benjamin is a partner at Shay Glenn LLP where he specializes in strategic patents and innovations counseling, primarily for venture-backed companies and investors in intellectual property matter.
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Ashok Gowda founded BioTex in 1997, where he sits as the President & CEO. More recently he founded Visualase (2007), where he is the Chief Operating Officer. He also holds a PhD in Bioengineering from Texas A&M university.
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BD professional with Medical Device and Diagnostic experience

Aamir is a Clinician Scientist and has specific interest in medical devices and cardiovascular regenerative medicine research. He is currently a Lecturer in Department of Anatomy at RCSI and PI with Tissue Engineering Research Group at RCSI and Trinity Ce
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Joseph obtained his B.S in Microbiology, and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from UCLA. While completing his Ph.D. he was actively involved with UCLA’s Business of Science Center, where he led projects that evaluated early-stage technology commercialization.
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Dan Hargrove, a lawyer by training, is the co-founder of Cancer Insight, which is a clinical Contract Research Organization that specializes in designing and executing Immuno-Oncology (IO) clinical trials. Cancer Insight also develops its own propriety I
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William Hariri holds a bachelor’s in International Business and a master’s in Management from the university of Rennes, France.

David Hawks is a business development strategist and technology and life science executive. He has an extensive track record of developing successful new business relationships, innovative solutions, teams and strategies across a range of technologies an

William Howell is a 35 year DoD retiree who executed senior SES level research project management operations for medical product development in all categories of products including biologics, drugs, and devices.
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Jodi Hubler is widely recognized for her keen insight, direct communication, and skillful stewardship of organizations from incubated start-ups to multi-billion-dollar corporations. Jodi currently serves on the boards of Lemhi Ventures portfolio companies
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Bryson Ishii is a Principal at Growth Factor Ventures, a Los Angeles based venture capital firm specializing in healthcare investments. His investment experience ranges from early stage start-ups to going-public transactions for later-stage companies.
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Noel is the first associate at Illumina Ventures and brings experience in market research, due diligence, and strategy development for companies in the life science industry.
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Cole Johnson is a Program Lead in Technology Assessments and Scouting at Baxter where he splits his time between identifying innovative technologies aligned with Baxter’s strategic interests and leading technical assessment teams performing diligence
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Director of Venture Capital at HOYA with a pharmaceutical research background. Has worked in fortune 500 pharmaceutical corporations, academic institutions, & small startup companies.

Seth has 17+ years of life science industry experience focusing primarily on clinical research. He has worked for numerous sponsors, consulted for a “Big 4”, and has past experience in epidemiological research with the US Department of Defense.
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Experienced New Business Development Manager with a strong technical foundation and demonstrated working knowledge of medical device industry.

Successful in global consultative influence leading companies to establish strategic clinical and regulatory initiatives, develop effective communication with regulatory agencies and key opinion leaders to expedite the product to market approval.

Mr. Kessler has broad experience in finance, actively sourcing and identifying investment opportunities, and negotiating, structuring and re-structuring investment transactions with emerging growth public companies.

Ajay is based at the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center in California. He focuses on Medical Device investments on the West Coast that are in areas of strategic interest to Johnson & Johnson.
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John Kim is the Principal at Aphelion Capital and has a history of working as a medical consultant in biogenetics. He graduated from Harvard with a Bachelors in Biochemistry, and has since earned an M.D. and an MBA from Duke University.
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As VP of Business Development in J&J’s Medical Device group, Jennifer is responsible for New Business Development (NBD) activities for New Growth Platforms.
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Noam Krantz leads Business Development at Ethicon Inc, Johnson & Johnson’s surgical division.
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Program Manager at US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

Cheryl Le Huquet is Registered Nurse with more than 30 years of patient care experience. UCLA has been her work home for the past 21 years.
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Dr. Anne-Marie Lee is an endocrinologist in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is affiliated with Abbott Northwestern Hospital. She received her medical degree from University of South Florida College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

Ben Lenail, based in Palo Alto, CA, is a founding officer of ALD Connect, a research consortium focused on the neuro-metabolic disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD).Ben is currently Director of Business Development at Alta Devices, a solar energ
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Frist Cressey Ventures is focused on accelerating the growth of high potential healthcare enterprises through value-added partnerships.
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Responsible for leveraging the technical expertise and market leadership of Fujikura in semiconductor manufacturing, miniaturization, fiber optics and CMOS for a diverse number of applications within the medical device and medical diagnostic fields
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Shailendra Mahajan is co-founder and Managing Director of Maxim Ventures. He was featured in ’15 Smart People in healthcare’ ,a 2018 report by CB Insights. Over the past 25 years, he has acquired broad experience in system design, sales, strategic marketi
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Early stage company angel investor (18 investments and counting, more than half in Life Sciences), Board Member & Advisor. Vinod is a member at Band of Angels and LSA, a mentor for founders at StartX, and the CEO of two VC-backed start-ups.
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My research focuses on pediatric bioengineering, on such topics as translating traumatic brain injury mechanism paradigms from adults to children, development of medical devices to enhance pediatric care, and design of biofidelic (human-like) pediatric cr
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David Maltz is the Founder and Managing Partner of Intervalent, and independent consultancy focused on product development and innovation strategy for consumer-facing medical devices.
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I am an experienced Strategy and Operations executive with 20 years of global business, corporate and consulting experiences across healthcare and other industry settings.
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Michael Manteiga joined ximedica in July of 2108 as Vice President of Business Development and has 24 years of sales leadership experience in the medical device and diagnostics space.

Lester Martinez-Lopez, MD, MPH is a retired Army Major General and former Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.

Responsible for leading Baxter’s Global Science & Technology Assessment team and technology landscape process. Inventor on 23 patents; co-authored a publication in Circulation.
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Juan-Pablo is a Partner at Action Potential Venture Capital with a passion in the future of mobile health technology and a background in healthcare investment. He holds a MS in electrical engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.
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Cheryl Matter leads the Innovation lab for Stella, a diversified healthcare company with holdings that include BCBS MN.

Accomplished physician, hospital and business executive, USAF flight surgeon and former NASA flight surgeon, who applies broad clinical knowledge and healthcare information technology experience to leadership, consulting, and innovation.
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Jim McGough is a Co-Founder and has 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and as an intrapreneur including executive roles at Citibank, Audi of America, and Motorola. Most recently Jim has served as President/CEO, Board Member, or Advisor for several
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Jennifer McMahon is a Principal at Seroba Life Sciences. She graduated from University College, Dublin with an honours degree in Pharmacology and has a Master’s degree in Biotechnology and Business.
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Mary McNamara-Cullinane is a regulatory expert bringing over 25 years of regulatory experience to Alira Health. Prior to joining Alira Health, Mary has had her own consulting firm since 2011 (MMC Regulatory Consulting).

He is responsible for Business Development for the Cardiovascular and Specialty Solutions Group, and is a Global Management Board member representing Business Development for the CSS group within J&J.
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Tamir is the Business Analyst for Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc (JJDC), the corporate venture arm of Johnson & Johnson, tasked with supporting the investment process from top to bottom, in Israel, Europe and the US.
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Jordan is a Senior Manager of Business Development and Strategy at Olympus.
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Jonathan joined BD in 2012 and is currently a Senior Business Development Manager in the Diabetes Care business. Jonathan holds a BS in chemical engineering with a double major in economics from Northwestern University. He also holds an MBA from Northwest
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At J&J Innovation, California, Nick focuses on medical device innovation in support of the general surgery, orthopedics, and cardiology businesses by identifying licensing, collaboration and investment opportunities.
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Dr Bruce Murphy is Deputy Director of the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering and a lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

Deepa is a program director for SBIR in the areas of cancer imaging, radiation therapy, clinical trials and investor initiatives. She also previously worked for Naviscan PET Systems and Fox Chase Cancer Center.
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Joanna is currently a Business Development Intern at Johnson & Johnson’s Center for Device Innovation, where she sources and supports early-stage medical device startups.
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Result-Driven Business Professional with over ten years of extensive experience evaluating complex business models, launching new products, and executing intricate transactions.
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Chris Neil is the Senior Vice President of New Ventures, a new organization tasked with investigating, seeding, and building new businesses that leverage Maxim’s core semiconductor business and know-how.

Maren Nelson is the Principal of M Nelson Consulting, a small consulting firm focused on medical device product development strategy and Quality Management processes. As well, Ms. Nelson is a medical industry mentor in the Washington Innovation Network.
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Anne Osdoit is a Venture Consultant with Sofinnova Partners, working on the medtech deal flow, and a partner at MD Start. Anne joined MD Start after spending almost 10 years developing Mauna Kea Technologies.
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Lauren Palestrini, Ph.D., is the Director of Research at MTEC, where she serves as the lead technology officer within the medical product development activities and oversees the development of technology solutions

John founded Springhood Ventures to address the funding gap in child health innovation. Springhood provides critical early investment and support to companies developing important healthcare solutions for children.
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My experience in device launch spans from Market Research, R&D designing, prototyping, process manufacturing, regulatory and sales, working for and with a variety of large and small medical companies.
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Robert has spent his career commercializing technologies. Currently, Robert directs US market development for Blue Belt Technologies, with the responsibility for the US sales of the knee implant business. Blue Belt was recently acquired by Smith and Nephe

Dr. Ron Poropatich, MD currently serves as the Director of the Center for Military Medicine Research and as a Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Doug specializes in patent prosecution and counseling, regularly working with inventors to prepare new patent applications. He also has a background in the medical device and surgical sectors.
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Israel Raz is an accomplished Senior Executive with over 20 years of global experience leading new market development, marketing strategy, product development, portfolio management, & business development.
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Rachel is in the Mergers and Acquisitions division at Medtronic.
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Juan F Roman PhD, MBA – Medical technology business developer with an international world-class technical and commercial background. 20+years career in MedTech always working in forefront technologies. Started in technology development with the last
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Tom is a urologist and was formerly the CMO at UCLA. His accomplishments included substantial growth in the clinical program, achieving competitive NIH funding for clinical trials in transplantation to UCLA, and achieving significant researching funding.
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Renee Ryan, Vice President, Venture Investments, joined Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC) in 2011. She is based in Silicon Valley, California and primarily supports the strategic investment activities in medical devices.
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Diana is General Partner and co-founder at Panakes Partners, an investment company focused on Innovative Early Stage Medical companies, all over Europe and more particularly in Italy.

Medical Director, CTAR

Broad experience in multiple sectors of health care (provider, payer, supplier). Served as adviser to multiple start-ups. Skilled in strategic planning, financial modeling and market analysis.
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Jangela creates programs that move revolutionary technologies to market. She currently serves as a Senior Consultant to the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Division of Research Innovation and Ventures (DRIVe)
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Amy Siegel founded S2N Health, where she brings over 20 years of strategic marketing experience to her company. Prior to S2N, she worked in guiding new product development and strategic partnering efforts and consulted for dozens of medtech companies.
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Terry is the Co-Founder of MS2 (Miller Sisco Medical Solutions), a medical device distributor. MS2 is Zimmer Biomet Spine’s exclusive distributor for Northern California, Northern Nevada, and Oregon. Prior to forming MS2, Terry held multiple sales and s
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Starting in 2014, Anne has been a Managing Director at Baxter Ventures. Previously she was on the founding team for Veracyte, where she sat as a Vice President, Head of Finance and Business Development, and Chief Financial Officer.
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Director, Entrepreneurial Programs and SC Launch, Inc. Executive Director

Chris is an experienced medical device professional with broad experience in all aspects of project management, product and process development, and device manufacturing.
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I have been fortunate to serve in a range of functions (Operations, Sales, Marketing, Business Development/M&A, and Strategy) across J&J’s medical device businesses, including Surgery (Ethicon), Ortho (Mitek, DePuy Synthes) and Neuro (Codman neurosurgery,
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Director, Military Operational Medicine Research Program

Dr. Steinhagen is a senior executive with 20 years of experience and track record in the Pharma, Biotech and CRO industry. Prior to joining Epidarex in 2019, Dr. Steinhagen served as President of Research and Development at Aptuit.

An accomplished General Manager, Business Development and Strategic Marketing professional with significant accomplishments in the medical device industry.

Jeff serves as the director of HealthTech Arkansas, an accelerator and early stage investment fund. The program works with early stage HealthTech companies to conduct pilot projects with Arkansas hospital systems.

Works as a Program Manager and Customer Relations Specialist for the Military & Health Research Foundation (MHRF). Serving as a small business advocate, she stimulates biomedical research and development efforts between industry, academic, and government.
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Barbara Strain is the Director of Value Management at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, VA.
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Dr. Mei Sun currently serves Deputy Portfolio Manager (DPM) of the Medical Simulation (MedSim) portfolio, Medical Simulation and Information Sciences Research Program (MSISRP).
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Canadian working in the U.S. in a global healthcare advisory firm as a Consultant.

Nilay Thakar focuses on identifying and evaluating new life sciences technologies and provides operating assistance to early-stage portfolio companies.

Jaye Thompson, Ph.D. is a Co-Founder and the Chief Operating Officer at Proxima. She has 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry.
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Mr. Toshiaki Masuda serves as Managing Director at Nipro Corporation. Mr. Masuda has been Chief of General Research Office and Manager of Planning Development Technology Business Dept at Nipro Corporation since June 2015.

David has been in the medical device and diagnostics field for over 20 years with a focus on business development and strategy. He is currently a Partner with Alira Health.
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Kwame Ulmer is a MedTech executive with nearly twenty years of experience in government and the private sector. He is currently an Angel Investor and regulatory strategy consultant with a focus on MedTech and Venture Capital firms.
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Ryota is a manager at Nipro Medical Corporation.

12 years of experience in Medical Device/Pharma R&D. Background in Materials Science (Ph.D. MIT) and Chemical Engineering (BS Rice University). Expertise in polymers, coatings, and materials science, advanced microscopy/imaging, particulate matter.

Heather leads technical assessment teams for due diligence of new opportunities for mergers and acquisitions and venture investment at Baxter. She initiates cross-functional review of early-stage opportunities and participates in technology scouting.
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Tiffany Wilson joined the Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) in 2011 and was quickly promoted to Executive Director. Her strong background in medical devices and commitment to fostering innovation have propelled her into the national spotlight.

Leslie Wise, JD, is Principal of EvidenceMatters, a Global Market Access consultancy. Leslie advises several of the largest medical device companies in the world and mentors start ups as a key advisor at the TMCx in Houston. Previously, Leslie was resp
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Erik J. Wolf, PhD is currently the Program Area Manager for the Neuromusculoskeletal Injuries Rehabilitation Portfolio at the Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine Research Program, at the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.

As Ximedica’s Sr. MedTech Analyst, Brian leverages a unique bag of academic and professional engineering experience together.
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Dr. Yaniv is an experienced and accomplished and senior executive in the life sciences industry; e.g. medical devices and bio-pharma, with 15 years of progressively increasing responsibilities in this field including entrepreneurship, successes in managin
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Adam is a healthcare industry professional specializing in medical devices with experience in strategy development, project management and high-volume manufacturing.
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Dr. John Zimmerman, MD is a cardiologist in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Beginning with the original Meditech division of Boston Scientific, Richard has worked on the design, development, and manufacturing of minimally invasive medical devices for over 35 years.