Meet the Organizers
MedTech Strategist’s Innovation Summit San Francisco is back with our All-Star team of organizing partners: Deerfield Partners, Fogarty Innovation, Lightstone Ventures, NEA, and Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati
MedTech Strategist
MedTech Strategist is a global information provider and Subject Matter Experts focused exclusively on the under-served medtech market. With more than 100 years of combined experience, we have worked together for nearly two decades, providing medical device industry executives with both breadth and depth in our industry publications, MedTech Strategist and Market Pathways, and providing our community with access to unparalleled connections at our medical device conferences.
Deerfield Management
Deerfield Management Company is an investment firm dedicated to advancing healthcare through information, investment and philanthropy—all toward the end goal of cures for disease, improved quality of life and reduced cost of care. As of June 2020, the firm manages nearly $10 billion in assets. Providing value beyond capital, Deerfield generally maintains a combined portfolio of more than 200 private and public investments across the life science, medical device, diagnostic, digital health and health service industries at all stages of evolution from start-up to mature company.
Fogarty Innovation
Fogarty Innovation is a global hub for novel thinking and creation — providing a bold model for shaping the future of human health. Leveraging our distinctive status as a nonprofit in the medical technology space, we combine our passion for innovation with world-class expertise, resources, and leadership to bring new technologies to life.
We educate innovators on practical, real-world topics and create value for healthcare providers, patients and investors by translating novel concepts into bold solutions for unmet clinical needs. We seek to elevate the medtech ecosystem through advocacy efforts and alliances with groups that can help move the industry’s life-enhancing work forward.
Lightstone Ventures
Lightstone Ventures was founded in 2012 by the General Partners and other key members of the life science teams of Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) and Morgenthaler. The firm was formed to capture the upside of investing in breakthrough life science companies during a time of unique opportunity in the space. With strategic insight and a proven strategy, we are well-positioned to continue to find unique investments and drive life science innovation for patients. Members of the Lightstone team manage a portfolio of more than 40 medical device and biotechnology companies across the ATV and Morgenthaler legacy funds
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA)
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. With more than $20 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 225 portfolio company IPOs and more than 375 acquisitions.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier provider of legal services to life sciences, technology, and growth enterprises worldwide. The firm is nationally recognized as a leader in corporate governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, and technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions.
