Maryanne Farris

Bausch & Lomb, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets eye health products. It offers over-the-counter supplements, eye care products, ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, contact lenses, lens care, ophthalmic surgical devices, and instruments. The company was founded by John Jacob Bausch and Henry Lomb in 1853 and is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

Cordis Corp. develops and manufactures devices for interventional vascular medicine and electrophysiology. The firm's products include guidewires, balloons, forceps, catheters, and stents to treat a variety of circulatory system problems including coronary artery disease and cerebral aneurysms. The company was founded by William P. Murphy Jr. in 1959 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Part of Abbott Laboratories, Daig Corp. is a company that manufactures specialty catheters. The company is based in Hopkins, MN. Daig was acquired by St. Jude Medical LLC, part of Abbott Laboratories from January 05, 2017 on May 31, 1996 for $439.60 million.

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Mentor Worldwide LLC develops, manufactures and markets science-based products. It offers surgical and non-surgical medical procedures such as breast implants, skin and tissue expanders and facial and dermal implants. The company was founded by Christopher J. Conway in 1969 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Medtronic ATS Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets medical devices for the treatment of structural heart disease. The company was founded on November 09, 2000 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc. provides medical devices and procedures for the minimally invasive treatment of venous reflux disease, an underlying cause of varicose veins. Venous reflux disease results in symptoms such as leg pain, swelling, fatigue, skin ulcers, and painful varicose veins. The company was founded on January 31, 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Medisyn Technologies, Inc. develops novel pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and animal health products. The firm engages in the development of pre-qualified proprietary drug compounds. Its Forward Engineering platform is focused on predicting the behavior of molecules from topology. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, MN.

Recombinetics, Inc. operates as a gene editing technology company with a platform in therapeutics development. It uses genetic technologies to improve the health of people, animals, and the environment. The firms offers transplantable cells, tissues and organs for patients, accelerating drug, device therapy, and animal health, welfare and sustainability services. Recombinetics was founded by Scott C. Fahrenkrug in 2008 and is headquartered in Eagan, MN.

Brodeur & Partners, Inc. provides public relations services. Its services include research and planning, corporate communications, marketing communications and media relations. The company was founded by John Brodeur in 1985 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP provides legal services. The firm serves to banking and financial services, energy, food and beverage, government entities, health care, information and technology, life science and manufacturing industries. The company was founded by Louis D. Brandeis and Samuel D. Warren in 1879 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

RF/Binder Partners, Inc. provides strategic counsel, public relations and marketing communication services. The firm provides integrated advertising, crisis management, spokesperson sourcing and training services. The company was founded by Amy Binder in 2001 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

San Francisco Opera Association owns and operates opera theater. It offers an array of training programs and performance opportunities for young artists under the support of the San Francisco Opera Center and the Merola Opera Program. The company was founded by Gaetano Merola in 1923 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Advanced Medical Technology Association is a trade association which provides medical technology solutions. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The Massachusetts Bar Association is a non-profit organization that serves the legal profession and the public by promoting the administration of justice, legal education, professional excellence, and respect for the law. The MBA is based in Boston, MA. The organization offers various membership advantages, volunteer opportunities, and educational resources such as CLE programs, practicing with professionalism courses, and publications like the ejournal and Lawyers Journal. The MBA also provides advocacy services, public resources, and exclusive benefits to its members such as the Lawyer Referral Service, Insurance Agency, and MBA On Demand.

Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council, also known as MassMEDIC, is the largest regional medtech association in Massachusetts. With over 300 members, the organization represents manufacturers, product developers, suppliers, research institutions, and academic health centers.

Intercomp Co., Inc. manufactures weighing and measurement products. It offers crane scales and tension links, wheel load scales and axle scales, pallet truck and forklift scales, floor and cargo scales, aircraft scales, force measurement test equipment, remote indicators, displays, and RFX wireless weighing technology. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Medina, MN.

UC Davis Health System is a healthcare organization that aims to discover and share knowledge while providing high-quality care to the community. The private company is based in Sacramento, CA. The company's ultimate goal is to advance health locally and globally.

Medtronic 3F Therapeutics, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets cardiovascular devices. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

InnovHeart Srl is a holding company, which engages in the development of transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) systems for the treatment of patients with mitral valve disease. It also develops Saturn Prosthesis, Transapical, and Transeptal systems that are designed to be consistent with the anatomy of the mitral valve. The company was founded by Giovanni Righini and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Baropace, Inc. is a privately held medical device company located in Ashland, OR. Baropace is focused on the development of pressurepace™, a real-time physiologic control software and hardware to regulate cardiac pacemakers to treat resistant hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (hfpef). The company has proprietary biotechnologies including a pacemaker control algorithm (pressurepace™) and new sensor technologies working through patient mobile and wearable platforms. Baropace expects to launch a first-in-human clinical trial (relievehtn-i) in the fourth quarter of 2022. Pressurepace™ is limited by federal law to investigational use only and is not approved for sale in any geography. The company was founded in 2019 by Eli Gang and Michael Burnam, who has been the CEO since 2018.