John DeFord

C. R. Bard, Inc. engages in designing, development, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, and sales of medical, surgical, diagnostic, and patient care devices. It sells its products to hospitals, individual healthcare professionals, extended care facilities, and alternate site facilities. The company was founded by Charles Russell Bard in 1907 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, NJ.

Cook, Inc. develops healthcare devices. The company integrates minimally invasive medical device design, biopharma, gene and cell therapy, and biotech to enhance patient safety as well as improve clinical outcomes in the fields of aortic intervention, interventional cardiology, critical care medicine, gastroenterology, radiology, peripheral vascular, bone access & oncology, surgery and soft tissue repair, urology, and assisted reproductive technology, gynecology as well as high-risk obstetrics. The company is located in Bloomington, IN.

Early Stage Partners (Early Stage Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Jonathan Murray. The firm is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

NuVasive, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and provision of procedural solutions for spine surgery. It offers a comprehensive portfolio of procedurally integrated spine surgery solutions, including surgical access instruments, spinal implants, fixation systems, biologics, and enabling technologies, as well as systems and services for intraoperative neuromonitoring. The company was founded by Alexis V. Lukianov on July 21, 1997 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Blue Spark Technologies, Inc. develops and produces thin film batteries. Its products include wearable wireless thermometer, standard and ultra-thin batteries, sensors, transdermal patches, and powered cards. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Westlake, OH.