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Driven executive with 29+ years experience in VC / private equity medical device start-ups and growth companies. Extensive domestic and international corporate leadership, including marketing, business development, sales, reimbursement, regulatory and operations experience in multiple medical specialties. Successful ventures encompassing significant corporate growth, multiple profitable exit strategies and a successful IPO, and key, central participation in fund-raising efforts.

Led several organizations including founding multiple entities and offices. Nine years living in Europe growing business internationally, 19 years based in the US/San Francisco Bay Area leading corporate functions and global/domestic activities.

Significant business development experience with more than 20 deals achieved including multi-million dollar JDA’s, partnerships, CRADA’s, licensing deals, and grants. Multiple significant corporate, direct-to-surgeon and direct-to-patient marketing initiatives, 19 product introductions, and development of new medical markets and applications.

Experienced new business developer, product manager, engineer, inventor, and innovator with a passion for developing and commercializing new and innovative products that create value, solve real problems, and improve lives. Expertise in turning ideas into viable business solutions through understanding needs, creating concepts, inventing or identifying solutions, making and testing prototypes, engaging with potential customers, forming business models and supply chains, evaluating M&A targets, and leading a cross-functional team to convert on new opportunities.

Passionate, collaborative senior Leader with Marketing, Product Development and Regulatory Affairs experience across multiple divisions and product lines in market-leading global medical technology companies. Proven track record advancing medical device introduction throughout the entire innovation lifecycle from customer insight synthesis and ideation to commercial launch and customer training.

Virginia is an accomplished innovation executive with experience spanning Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. She is focused on accelerating disruptive, early stage innovation in healthcare. She works collaboratively, fostering partnerships to access external innovation, as well as to drive internal innovation by setting and aligning strategy, inspiring team and addressing internal barriers to innovation. She believes in the importance of customer- and patient-centric innovation, and to that end, looks for opportunities to be immersed with clinicians in hospital and other healthcare settings.

She has achieved outstanding results, across a spectrum of R&D leadership roles, resulting in launch of clinically impactful medical device products in the orthopaedic, cardiology, ENT and neurology spaces. She is an accomplished scientist, having authored numerous peer reviewed publications and been a frequent presenter at global healthcare conferences. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the prestigious honorary society for Medtech Engineers.

Virginia also has significant management experience, having managed a variety of technical teams and projects with significant annual budgetary responsibility. She is sought after for her professional guidance and serves on several Advisory Boards.

Cynthia Yee is a Partner at Vensana Capital. Cynthia brings nearly two decades of investing, operating, and public equities experience to Vensana. Prior to joining Vensana, she served as a Principal at Windham Venture Partners, where she led the firm’s investments in multiple companies, including Cartiva Medical (acquired), ClarVista Medical (acquired), Personal Genome Diagnostics (acquired) and NeuSpera Medical. She was previously an investor at NEA working across its medtech and healthcare services practices, and she spent time in business development and strategic marketing at Epix Therapeutics and medtech incubator D3DC. Cynthia began her career in public equities, covering medical devices at Piper Jaffray and biotechnology at Pacific Growth Equities. Cynthia currently serves on the board of directors of Evident Vascular and SpyGlass Pharma. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Integrative Biology and a BS in Business Administration at the Haas School of Business.

Elizabeth has 25+ years cross-functional experience in drug development (oncology), regulatory affairs and clinical trials for startups, biotech & academia. She has been an active angel investor for the past decade. She currently serves as a Scientific & Commercialization Advisor to the NIH’s National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Technology Transfer Office, as a reviewer of NCI SBIR/STTR grants and formerly on the Investment Committee of the Health Innovation Consortium, providing investment recommendations to the VA Commonwealth Health System. Elizabeth also serves on the advisory board of healthcare startups including Playbl, Oxiwear & NuvOx Pharma and as a regulatory affairs consultant to numerous biotech & medical device companies. She received her BA from Johns Hopkins, her MS from Georgetown University, her PhD from Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School & NIH.

John Hyung-Jun Kim completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. Kim completed his undergraduate studies in biochemistry from Harvard University, and is a graduate of Duke University’s School of Medicine and the Fuqua School of Business, where he concentrated on health sector management. Dr. Kim has worked as a medical consultant in biogenetics, and was previously with Bear Stearns & Company as an Equity Research Associate. Dr. Kim continues to practice part-time as a hospitalist, keeping Aphelion Capital current with medical trends.

Dr. Kim sits on the Board of Directors at Siesta Medical, Zeto, and Moving Analytics.

Co-founder and CEO of ImmersiveTouch, where we are reducing the standard 7-10 day 3D planning delivery down to just minutes. We are a pioneer in VR simulated surgical planning; the next dimension in personalized healthcare. ImmersiveTouch is highly differentiated with a large hospital base and patent portfolio. I’m responsible for running all facets of the business and have a proven executive management track record driving growth and innovation in healthcare. I am driven to improve healthcare economics and patient outcomes. I am an accomplished speaker, and a contributor to publications such as Forbes and Business Insider. Under my leadership ImmersiveTouch was awarded Best Video and Top 4 Finalist by MedTech Innovator, won the Center for Advancing Innovation Global Health Innovation Challenge; awarded Best Simulation Company in North America by Frost & Sullivan; listed in the 34 Virtual Reality Companies to Know by Built In; featured in Healthcare Tech Outlook ‘s Top 10 Medical Imaging Solutions Providers; named one of The 7 Virtual Reality Companies to Innovate Healthcare by Medical Design and Outsourcing; listed as one of The 9 Healthcare Companies Making Innovations in Virtual Reality by Touchstone Research; selected as one of the Top 10 Startups by HealthBox; and awarded Top Simulation Company by MedTech Outlook.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University, Mike went on to become a Nuclear Refueling Engineer for the Department of Defense’s submarine program.

Then, he and his wife relocated from Seattle, WA to San Diego, CA where he took an engineering position with Invetech, a Danaher company, and his wife, Dr. Leah Gordon, attended medical school.

While with Invetech, Mike worked as a senior mechanical engineer on a variety of projects supporting the development of diagnostic instruments, medical devices, cell and gene therapies, consumer products, and automation systems.

He currently operates his own consulting company, Michael Gordon, Inc, which specializes in the conceptualization, development and integration of novel technologies and biological workflows in the immuno-oncology/immunotherapy space.

I am the CEO and co-founder of Oxford Endovascular Ltd, a spinout from Oxford University.

The company is developing a revolutionary medical device to cure brain aneurysms; a life-threatening disease affecting 1 in 50 persons in a strongly growing market valued over $1 billion. In 2017 it won ‘Best Med-Tech Start-Up’ at the Oxford Bio Network awards, 1st place at the BioTrinity ‘Perfect Pitch’ competition, and an award at the ‘European Health Catapult’ finals.
I have nearly 30 years growing international businesses in large corporations & start-ups.
Experienced in strategic planning, execution, team building, gaining regulatory approvals & fundraising including winning a prestigious Horizon 2020 SME instrument grant amongst several others.

I mentor budding entrepreneurs, am a panelist at industry conferences and sit on the ‘Medfit’ steering committee in Paris, France.