Leadership

His roles at St. Jude Medical included: President of the U.S. Division, President of the Cardiovascular Division, President of the Cardiac Surgery Division, and President of Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) residing in Belgium. George also served as President of Health Care Services where he built the National Accounts function for managing cross-divisional contracting and General Manager of Canadian Operations where he brought St. Jude Medical’s operations direct from a distributor-based distribution model while residing in Toronto, Canada. Prior to St. Jude Medical, George held several positions of increasing responsibility at the Davis & Geck Division of American Home Products from 1984 to 1992 including Marketing-Product Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Sales Training Manager and Sales Representative. George is currently serving on the Board of Directors for BioVentrix Inc. He holds a B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany and an MBA from the Fordham University Graduate School of Business.

Prior to Guided Delivery Systems, Jan was Director of Valve Therapy for Abbott Vascular’s structural heart business unit. His career includes executive positions at Evalve, where he was VP of Marketing and Business Development, and subsequently Valve Therapy. In this role, Jan was responsible for technology and procedure development, IDE study enrollment, training and reimbursement, and initial commercial launch. Jan is a veterinary surgeon by training with over 10 years of academic and practice experience. He holds a DVM degree from The University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Ed came to Corvia Medical from Mitralign, a percutaneous mitral valve repair company where he was Vice President of Engineering. Prior to Mitralign, Ed was the Director of Biomedical Engineering for Lightlab Imaging and was instrumental in its successful sale to Goodman. Ed also held several engineering management positions at two divisions of C.R. Bard, Inc., Bard Interventional Products and the USCI (Cardiology) division. Previously, Ed founded Custom Medical Design Concepts, an OEM research, development and design house. Ed holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts/Lowell.

Prior to MitraSpan, Kate was the COO for Thermedical, developing a ventricular tachycardia treatment, and VP Clinical and Regulatory Affairs for Viacor, treating mitral regurgitation percutaneously. Previously Kate held factory and global management positions with Hewlett-Packard Company Medical Products and Agilent Technologies with functional responsibilities in manufacturing, product development, and engineering, and a clinical focus on cardiac ultrasound imaging. Kate holds a BS Materials Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Prior to HeartWare’s acquisition, Lisa served as Senior Marketing Director where she led both strategic and product marketing activities, including definition of overall marketing and portfolio strategy, development and commercialization of new technologies, and creation of global initiatives to expand and grow the mechanical circulatory support market. Previously, Lisa held marketing and market development positions at Boston Scientific Corporation within the Peripheral Vascular Division. Lisa received a BS in Biology from the University of Richmond, holds an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and earned an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Prior to Corvia Medical, Ben held various manufacturing, product development and project management positions at Abiomed. Much of his work focused on new product introduction to manufacturing and scale up as well as production line transfer. Prior to Abiomed, Ben held a staff mechanical engineering position working on the design of capital equipment for the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Radiation Oncology department. Ben holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University and a MS in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University.