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Donald Rohrbaugh, Don Rohrbaugh is a seasoned medical device executive with over 30 years experience in both the corporate and start-up environment. He has been the founding CEO of several medical device companies (public, private, US and international) with both venture and public capital raising experience. He has been a consultant and board member for various private and public companies. Corporate experience include 20 years as either a division general manager or research/ development vice president within Baxter Heathcare International. Other diverse experience includes strategic/ business planning, international market development, outsourced manufacturing and international clinical trials. Broad device experience includes implantable pacemakers, diagnostic catheters, patient monitoring systems, drug delivery systems and implantable heart failure devices. Don holds MS degree from the University of Southern California in mechanical engineering. |
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Samuel Shaolian, Mr. Shaolian is an experienced executive with over 25 years of experience leading various medical device companies. He was a founder and President of Vertelink Corporation, a company that developed a pioneering minimally invasive spinal surgery that was acquired by Medtronic, Inc. in November 2003. After the acquisition of Vertelink by Medtronic, Mr. Shaolian co-founded Micardia Corporation, developing novel approaches in the field of dynamic cardiovascular implants. Mr. Shaolian is a co-founder and board member of Onset Medical Corp. and Ellipse Technologies, Inc. Ellipse is developing breakthrough approaches for the treatment of GERD, obesity, and spine. Earlier in his career, he held executive positions as Vice President of R&D at Endologix, Inc. and Cardiodyne, Inc. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering as well as a Masters degree in Bio-Medical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Mr. Shaolian is inventor or co-inventor of over 100 issued or pending U.S. patents. |
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Ross Tsukashima, Ross Tsukashima has a proven record of accomplishments in the medical field. He has over 20 years of experience in developing products for Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Neurological, G.I. and General Surgery. Mr. Tsukashima has held senior management positions in new product development for medical device start ups and Fortune 500 medical device companies such as Baxter International and Medtronic. Mr. Tsukashima has developed superior technology which earned him several awards from Business Week, Frost and Sullivan and Popular Science publications. He has over 25 patents both issued and pending. Mr. Tsukashima earned his B.S. in Engineering from CSU Long Beach, California. |
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John McIntyre John McIntyre has over 20 years of experience in the medical device industry. Mr. McIntyre began his career at Baxter Healthcare Corporation (now Edwards Lifesciences) in both Research and Development and later in Regulatory Affairs. As an R&D engineer, Mr. McIntyre was responsible for design and development on a number of different vascular graft projects. This included all aspects of development through commercialization of expanded PTFE vascular grafts and an abdominal aneurysm endovascular graft. Since his more than 10 year tenure at Edwards Lifesciences, Mr. McIntyre has been a member of a number of small start up companies, including Innercool Therapies, Cardiogenesis Corporation, and Magellan Spine Technologies where he has been responsible for managing Clinical, Regulatory, and Quality departments. Mr. McIntyre holds a B.S. degree in Bioengineering from the University of California at San Diego and a M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California at Davis. |
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Robin Gibbs, Robin Gibbs has spent over 25 years in the clinical diagnostics and medical device industry, in sales and executive marketing positions with American Hospital Supply, Baxter International and Edwards Lifesciences. She was, most recently, a principal at MedX3, a medical device marketing and business development organization. Ms. Gibbs brings extensive experience in innovative clinical marketing, clinician education, product integration and branding. As Vice President of Global Franchise Management for Edwards Lifesciences, she directed world-wide branding strategies, designed and executed state-of-the-art clinical education programs and led multi-functional teams through extensive strategic planning and marketing program execution. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Georgia. Ms. Gibbs serves on the Board of Directors for LabCare, a diagnostic technical support company and for It's Your Environment, an on-line, interactive education site for teachers and students. |
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Bart Navarro, Mr. Navarro has over 28 years of experience in medical device manufacturing and operations, including coronary balloon angioplasty, coronary lasers, coronary stent angioplasty and their delivery systems for cardiovascular applications. Mr. Navarro started his career in Operations in 1982 with Advanced Cardiovascular Systems (which became Eli Lilly, then Guidant, and then Johnson & Johnson). Mr. Navarro has significant experience with corporate experience in senior management operations in medical device start-up companies including MCM Labs, in Mountain View, CA; Eclipse Surgical Technologies, in Sunnyvale, CA; Cardiovascular Dynamics, in Irvine, CA; Endologics, in Irvine, CA; and Devax, in Irvine, CA. Mr. Navarro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from California State College at Hayward. |
