Manny A. Villafana

Founded by John Babitt, Timothy Mathison and Manny Villafana, Kips Bay Partners is a venture capital firm located in Wayzata, Minnesota.

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.

St. Jude Medical LLC develops, manufactures and distributes cardiovascular medical devices for the global cardiac rhythm management, cardiovascular and atrial fibrillation therapy areas and neurostimulation medical devices for the management of chronic pain. The company was founded by Manuel A. Villafana in 1976 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Part of Boston Scientific Corp., Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. is a company that specializes in implanting pacemakers in patients with an abnormally low heart rate. The company is based in St. Paul, MN. The pacemakers are implanted under the skin, in the chest area, and are connected to the heart by transvenous leads that conduct electrical impulses to pace the heart and restore a normal heart rhythm. Patients implanted with a pacemaker must be regularly monitored by their cardiologist to ensure that the pacing system is working correctly. The company was founded by Manny A. Villafana.

CABG Medical, Inc. develops medical devices focused on the treatment of coronary heart disease. It is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Kips Bay Medical, Inc. was a medical device company focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing its proprietary external saphenous vein support technology for use in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. Its product, eSVS MESH, was a nitinol mesh sleeve that was placed over the saphenous vein graft during CABG surgery and is designed to constrict the vein and prevent expansion of the vein graft and resulting injury due to increased pressure. The company was founded by Manuel A. Villafaña on May 1, 2007 and was headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Medical 21, Inc. develops and manufactures artificial graft for coronary bypass surgery. The company was founded by Manny A. Villafana and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.