| Rob Michiels – CEO & Director
- 30+ year veteran of the medical device industry with focus
on cardiovascular technologies
- Former President & COO, and Director of CoreValve (sold
to Medtronic for $700M+ in 2009)
- Former CEO and Director of Venpro (PVC technology sold to
Medtronic), former President & COO and Director of InterVentional
Technologies (sold to BSX)
- BA Economics Antwerp University and MBA Indiana University
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| Brent Ratz – Co-Founder, President & COO
- A
decade of medical device industry experience in program management, product
design-development, manufacturing, and sales
- BSE
Biomedical Engineering (Phi Beta Kappa) Duke University
- MBA
Entrepreneurial Management Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
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| Arshad Quadri, MD – Founder, Chairman & Chief Medical Officer
- Attending
Cardiac Surgeon, St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT
- Special
clinical interest and research in endovascular techniques
- Inventor
of CVT’s platform technology
- Has
performed more than 1,500 open-heart surgeries
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| Kalathi Thyagarajan,
PhD – Vice President RA-QA-QC
- 25+
years regulatory, quality and research experience in heart valve therapies
- Former
VP RA-QA of CoreValve
- BS
& MS Chemistry Madras University, PhD Biochemistry Bangalore University,
Hormel Fellow University Minnesota
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| Stan Komatsu, PhD –
Consultant Acting Vice President
Valve Operations
- 30+
years manufacturing and research experience in heart valve therapies
- Former
VP Valve Operations of CoreValve, former VP Heart Valve Manufacturing Edwards
Laboratories
- BS
Chemistry Hawaii University, MS & PhD Biochemistry University California
Davis
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| Nancy Briefs – Independent
Director
- 25+ year veteran of the medical device industry
- President and CEO of Elemé Medical, former CEO Percardia
- Previously board seats with Direct Flow Medical, ProRythm,
and MDMA in D.C.
- Ernst & Young NE Entrepreneur of the Year 2003
- BA & BS Empora University and MBA from Golden Gate University
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| J.C. MacRae – Independent Director
- 25+ year veteran of the medical device industry
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CFO at Uptake Medical (former CFO CoreValve)
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Direct previous CFO/COO level responsibility for multiple medical device and biomedical company IPO and M&A events
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BA University California Irvine and MBA Cal State Fullerton
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| Zoran Maricevic, PhD– Independent Director
- Senior Director Strategy at the ARRIS Group
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Doctorate Engineering Syracuse University NY and MBA Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
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