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Executive Sponsors
AdvaMed
The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), is a trade association that leads the effort to advance medical technology in order to achieve healthier lives and healthier economies around the world. AdvaMed’s membership has reached over 400 members and more than 80 employees with a global presence in countries including Europe, India, China, Brazil, and Japan. AdvaMed’s member companies range from the largest to the smallest medical technology innovators and companies. The Association acts as the common voice for companies producing medical devices, diagnostic products and health information systems.
Alira Health
Alira Health is an international advisory firm providing integrated strategy, execution and innovation services for healthcare and life science companies. Our strategists, bankers, doctors and scientists collaborate to fully understand every aspect of healthcare. We provide our clients with a continuum of support to achieve success at any and every point in their business lifecycle.
ArrowFast
We are a medical device engineering company. We help medical device startups get to their next milestone. We have been working with MedTech industry leaders and on most advanced scientific projects around the globe for 20 years. Our in-house team of 220 engineers helps startups from planning to developing their device and making sure it's certified for the targeted market.
Charles River Laboratories
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guides us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe.
Eversheds Sutherland
Eversheds Sutherland is a global top 10 law practice with more than 3,500 lawyers and 68 offices serving the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The firm’s intellectual property team has extensive experience representing clients in the MedTech field, including securing strategic global patent portfolios for start-up and established companies; advising premier investment firms on IP diligence of target companies; and representing clients in judicial and administrative proceedings worldwide.
First Republic Bank
Founded in 1985, First Republic and its subsidiaries offer private banking, private business banking and private wealth management, including investment, trust and brokerage services. First Republic specializes in delivering exceptional, relationship-based service and offers a complete line of products, including residential, commercial and personal loans, deposit services, and wealth management. First Republic is a constituent of the S&P 500 Index and KBW Nasdaq Bank Index.
Fox Rothschild
Fox Rothschild LLP is a national law firm with more than 950 attorneys practicing in 27 offices coast to coast. Our MedTech team includes recognized leaders who advise medical technology companies of all sizes. Our attorneys are proud to partner with clients every step of the way as they continue to fuel innovation, drive growth and improve the lives of others.
Grant Engine
Grant Engine is regularly identified as the leading platform for securing non-dilutive funding. We work directly with you to develop the right, best story to secure funding for your products. We write the grant with your essential inputs. As a team of scientists and entrepreneurs, Grant Engine understands what it takes to build a differentiated product to improve the standard of care to address an unmet clinical need. With win rates at 2 to 4x better than the national average, a proven team, and a focus on advancing differentiated products that improve the standard of care, we partner with select companies who want to save lives
Greenlight Guru
Greenlight Guru is the only quality management software platform designed specifically for medical devices companies. The industry-leading platform helps companies get safer products to market faster, simplifies FDA and ISO regulatory compliance and provides a single source of truth by connecting the management of your design controls and risk with all your quality processes. Greenlight Guru’s software solution is used by thousands of users across the globe, allowing teams to push beyond baseline compliance and achieve True Quality.
Health Advances
Health Advances is a strategy consulting firm that focuses exclusively on the healthcare industry. We are scientists, clinicians, and business professionals who share a passion for supporting commercialization and driving adoption of innovations that improve healthcare. The firm employs over 175 full-time professionals in four main offices.
HOYA Corporation
Founded in 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, HOYA Corporation is a global technology and med-tech company and a leading supplier of innovative high-tech and medical products. HOYA’s divisions and business units research and develop products utilized in the healthcare and information technology fields. In the healthcare field, we provide medical device products such as eyeglasses, medical endoscopes, contact and intraocular lenses, orthopedic implants, surgical/therapeutic devices and medical device reprocessing and disinfection solutions. In the information technology field, we provide products such as optical lenses, photomasks and blanks used in the manufacturing process for semiconductor and LCD/OLED devices, text to speech, human resources and other software solutions and critical components for the mass memory and cloud storage industries. With over 150 offices and subsidiaries worldwide, HOYA currently employs a multinational workforce of 37,000 people. For more information, please visit http://www.hoya.com.
IMMR
IMMR (IMM Recherche) advances innovation in health care through its commitment to excellence in preclinical science. With over 20 years of experience, IMMR sets an internationally recognized standard for the design and conduct of preclinical studies in large models, and with the highest ethical standards. Located in Paris, IMMR provides unparalleled state-of-the-art, FDA-inspected facilities for completing sophisticated studies successfully and cost-effectively, with novel technologies including surgical implants, transcatheter therapies, surgical robotics, drug delivery and others. IMMR’s services include early feasibility through to GLP studies, pathology evaluation and investigator training for advancing technologies into human clinical trials. With world-leading expertise from first prototype to final regulatory studies, IMMR guides innovators through the entire preclinical process.
iO life ventures
iO life ventures partners with healthcare entrepreneurs focused on creating breakthrough therapeutic solutions to unmet patient needs. Through our investment initiatives, we offer design, engineering and compliance services as a form of funding to accelerate the development of the company’s need to realize their vision and are committed to further investments from ideation through commercialization of healthcare solutions.
Johnson & Johnson
Having made significant contributions to surgery for more than a century, the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies are in the business of reaching more patients and restoring more lives. The group represents the most comprehensive surgical technology and specialty solutions business in the world, offering an unparalleled breadth of products, services, programs and research and development capabilities directed at advancing patient care while delivering clinical and economic value to health care systems worldwide.
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. Members of the Lightstone team manage a portfolio of 50+ medical device and biotechnology companies across the ATV and Morgenthaler legacy funds (Legacy Funds).
McGeever
McGeever is a family office positioned to establish, administer, and govern our unique financial and philanthropic values and goals. Through private investment management and charitable giving, the McGeever office is a perpetual entity focused on preserving legacy values, wealth management, and the lifestyle creation of future generations. Our legacy is to preserve family and individual vision, pursue opportunity, and create value. Our family’s values will continue to transition generationally through our guiding principles of managing all family businesses, investments, and philanthropic endeavors with: integrity, dedication, and compassion. Headquartered in North Carolina, the McGeever family office has partnered with entrepreneurs worldwide.
MCRA
Founded in 2004, MCRA is a leading medical device advisory firm and clinical research organization (CRO) that specializes in regulatory affairs, reimbursement & market access, clinical research, healthcare compliance, and quality assurance—to provide a dynamic, market-leading effort from concept to commercialization. MCRA's integrated application of these key value-creating functions provides unparalleled expertise for its clients. MCRA has offices in Washington, DC, Manchester, CT, and New York, NY, and serves more than 600 clients globally. Its core focus areas of therapeutic experience include orthopedics, spine, cardiovascular, wound care, neurology, diagnostic imaging, dental, general healthcare, digital health and cybersecurity, robotics, and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) devices.
MDMA
MDMA is a national trade association based in Washington, DC providing educational and advocacy assistance to innovative and entrepreneurial medical technology companies. Since 1992, MDMA has been the voice for medical technology innovation, playing a proactive role in helping to shape policies that impact the ecosystem. This is accomplished by working with key Members of Congress, senior staff at FDA, CMS and other agencies, and through the grassroots support of our members.
Medical Alley
Medical Alley Association serves the individuals and organizations that comprise Minnesota's health industry by influencing policy, fostering connections and providing critical intelligence to improve the quality of health around the world.
Medmarc
Created in 1979 by the healthcare technology industry, Medmarc’s purpose is to be the superior provider of liability insurance and related risk management solutions and to support the development, testing and delivery of medical products that save lives and improve the quality of life. Through collaboration with our parent company, ProAssurance, and our clinical trial industry experts, we provide a single source of innovative healthcare liability insurance solutions to the life sciences companies we serve.
MedTech Innovator
MedTech Innovator is the industry’s nonprofit global competition and accelerator for medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies. Our mission is to improve the lives of patients by accelerating the growth of companies that are transforming the healthcare system.
Medtronic PLC
Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Medtronic is among the world’s largest medical technology, services and solutions companies – alleviating pain, restoring health and extending life for millions of people around the world. Medtronic employs more than 88,000 people worldwide, serving physicians, hospitals and patients in approximately 160 countries. The company is focused on collaborating with stakeholders around the world to take healthcare Further, Together.
Olympus Corporation
Olympus is a global medical device corporation specializing in endoscopy. The group forms partnerships and licensing relationships with early stage medical device startups. Olympus is interested in endoscopes, laparoscopic devices, devices for minimally invasive surgery, and AI technologies across a wide range of indications including ENT, gastrointestinal, respiratory, gynecology, and urology. Olympus works with startups worldwide. The firm prefers to collaborate with startups with human clinical data for their devices. Currently Olympus is seeking new solutions that deliver minimally invasive treatments. To discover more about Olympus' technology needs, click here.
PRIA Healthcare
Led by veterans of the medical device industry, PRIA drives market adoption and payer coverage of innovative medical devices and procedures. Combining patient and clinical data, as well as evidence of patient-demand, we build patient access programs that convince insurance companies to cover your medical device – accelerating the adoption and commercialization of your innovative procedure or treatment.
RBrooks Group
Choosing the right leaders for your organization: It’s clearly a critical decision and can make the difference between unimaginable success and catastrophic failure. For nearly 30 years, Roger Brooks and his team at RBrooks Group have helped early stage and established medical device organizations find the ideal CEO, C-Suite or Board member or Vice President. When working with RBrooks Group, clients can expect a tenacious, research-backed, goal-oriented approach to finding the best executive-level candidates often those not in the market for a job.
Team-Consulting Medical Devices
Our clients come to us to develop pioneering devices. New treatments, interventions and tools often require innovative new technologies or manufacturing systems that need our expertise throughout. Our work in MedTech is wide ranging and includes diagnostic systems, surgical devices, respiratory care products, wound care, blood and fluid management and a wide variety of therapeutic systems involving electrical stimulation and thermal management.
JoJan Inc. DBA The Mullings Group
The Mullings Group has consistently been recognized as a leading search firm in the nation. For over 25 years, our focus has been in the medical device industry. The star candidates of yesterday are the leaders of today and through these long standing relationships, we know the real players, and what will attract them. Clients attribute TMG's success to its industry focused search teams and partnering relationships. Each assignment is carefully directed by a tenured search consultant who is intimately familiar with your industry and its challenges. Each specialty team is composed of several members that provide unique discipline expertise. This deliberate configuration enables the client to receive substantial time and cost saving benefits as a result of aligning with a firm that services the client's needs vertically and horizontally. Whether searching for the general manager of a billion dollar company, staffing an entire sales force for an international conglomerate or recruiting a highly specialized engineer for a recently launched start-up, matching the right employee with the right company is what we do best.
The Medical Consultancy
Providing innovative sales solutions for medical device companies in a shifting European market. With access to the largest distribution channel in Europe, and regional expertise, The Medical Consultancy enables companies to exceed their revenue goals, despite the current challenges, by adapting to a new way of doing business in Europe.
Three Bridges Management & Consulting
Three Bridges M&C is a global medtech business development firm providing a comprehensive list of services to help startup and SMEs to identify business weaknesses/challenges and determine relevant solutions in order to create value and sustainable growth. We have developed, driven regulatory approvals and commercialized globally a multitude of medical innovative technologies.
