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| Posted by insynCVentures on Feb 10 2009 |
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Luncheon Presentation at insynCVentures 2009 will be delivered by Manny Villafaña
Serial entrepreneur Manny Villafaña, the founder of Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Jude Medical, GV Medical, ATS Medical, CABG Medical, and his newest venture, Kips Bay Medical, will speak at the insynCVentures luncheon on April 22nd in Dallas, Texas.
Mr. Villafaña has been designated a Living Legend of Medicine by the International Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons and been named a National Master Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. Villafaña, a South Bronx native who became Medtronic's first international sales administrator, is Chairman, Founder and CEO of Kips Bay Medical, his newest venture that was founded in 2007, which is about to begin human clinical trials of a vein-supporting nitinol mesh tube used during coronary artery bypass operations.
Career history:
Medtronic, Latin American Sales Manager, 1967-1971; Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc./Guidant, Founder, CEO, 1972-1976; St. Jude Medical, Inc., Founder, CEO, 1976-1982; GV Medical, Inc. Co-founder, 1982-1987; ATS Medical, Inc., Founder, Chairman/CEO, 1987-2004; CABG Medical, Inc., Founder, Chairman/CEO, 1999-2006; and Kips Bay Medical, Inc., Founder, Chairman/CEO, 2007-present.
Key achievements:
Founder of six publicly held companies; Co-developer of the St. Jude heart valve; Co-inventor of the first open pivot heart valve (ATS Medical Open Pivot Valve); Recipient of various pacemaker, heart valve and stent patents; Guest Lecturer at Harvard University School of Business, University of St. Thomas School of Business, Miami University School of Business, and University of Minnesota School of Business. Guest Lecturer and Faculty Member at several medical meetings, most recently: The VI ISCTS Centenary of Cardiac Surgery Meeting, Hiroshima, 1996; The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs, Tokyo, October, 1994; The Japanese College of Cardiology Meeting, Yokahama, September, 1995; La Sociedad Mexifana De Cirugia Cardiovaca, Vera Cruz, October, 1996; The International Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons, July 1996, November, 2003; and 50th Anniversary of Open Heart Surgery Symposium, October, 2004.
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