William Ryan

Alphatec Spine, Inc. is focused on the design, development, manufacturing, and marketing of products for the surgical treatment of spine disorders, with a focus on treating condition affecting the aging spine. The firms product portfolio and pipeline include spinal disorder products and systems. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Guidant Corp. manufactures cardiovascular therapeutic devices. The company also provides cardiac and peripheral vascular repair surgical systems. It operates in Europe and Japan. Guidant was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of implantable visual prosthetics. It offers Orion Visual Cortical Prosthesis System, an implanted cortical stimulation device intended to provide artificial vision to individuals who are blind due to a wide range of causes, including glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, optic nerve injury or disease, and eye injury. The company was founded by Alfred E. Mann, Aaron Mendelsohn, Sam Williams, Robert J. Greenberg, and Gunnar Bjorg in 1998 and is headquartered in Sylmar, CA.

Lucerno Dynamics LLC engages in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of systems to detect the presence of radiolabeled biomarkers. It offers the Lara System, a solution which uses sensors on the patient’s skin to measure the radiation emitted from the areas of interest beneath the sensors. The company was founded by Josh Knowland, Ronald K. Lattanze, and Charles W. Scarantino on November 2, 2011 and is headquartered in Cary, NC.

Synaptive Medical, Inc. develops medical equipment and applications for neurosurgery. Its products include birghtmatter plan, guide, drive, vision and imagedrive. The firm?s solutions offer state-of-the-art technologies, including advanced surgical planning, navigation and visualization. The company was founded by Cameron Piron in 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Part of Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Vascular, Inc. is a company that manufactures cardiac and vascular care systems. The company is based in Abbott Park, IL.