Richard Derner

Baxter Healthcare Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes hospital supplies and medical technologies. It distributes medical treatment options for conditions such as hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, and trauma. The company was founded on June 21, 1967 and is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Medtronic Spine LLC develops medical devices for invasive therapies. It designs, manufactures and markets instruments used in therapies for the restoration of spinal anatomy. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

MAKO Surgical Corp. is a medical device company, which develops and markets advanced robotic arm solution, joint specific applications for the knee, hip and orthopedic implants for orthopedic procedures. It also provides RIO robotic arm interactive orthopedic system, including a tactile robotic arm utilizing an integrated bone cutting instrument and a patient specific visualization component. The company was founded by Maurice R. Ferre and Rony A. Abovitz in November 2004 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Torax Medical Inc. designs and develops medical devices to treat chronic diseases related to defective sphincter muscles. Its technology platform, Magnetic Sphincter Augmentation (MSA), uses attraction forces to augment weak or defective sphincter muscles to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and fecal incontinence (FI). The firm's products include LINX, a reflux management system for the treatment of GERD; and FENIX, a continence restoration system for the treatment of FI. The company was founded by Todd Berg in 2002 and is headquartered in Shoreview, MN.

Sonoma Orthopedic Products, Inc. develops and manufactures orthopedic devices. The company was founded by Stephen D. Guntherand and Charles L. Nelson in 2005 and is headquartered in Buffalo Grove, IL.

Aspire Health, Inc. provides healthcare services. It specializes in providing an extra layer of support to patients facing a serious illness. The firm’s clinicians are experts in providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious illness, helping patients and caregivers navigate the healthcare system, guiding patients and caregivers through difficult and complex treatment choices and providing emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families. The company was founded by Brad Smith and William H. Frist, Sr. in 2011 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

Flower Orthopedics Corp. engages in the provision of bone-fixation implants. Its products include plates, trials, cannulated and headless compressions screws, plating screws, washers, instrument kits, drill bit, flower biologics, and ancillary instruments. The company was founded by Oliver Burckhardt in June 2012 and is headquartered in Horsham, PA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Smith & Nephew, Inc. develops and markets medical devices. Its products include television cameras and monitors, endoscopes, arthroscopes, orthopedic hand owered instruments, fiber optic illumination systems, laparoscopes, and surgical instruments. The company was founded on November 27, 1975 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.

Part of AbbVie, Inc., Ioptex Research, Inc. is a company that manufactures ophthalmic lenses. The company is based in Irwindale, CA. Ioptex Research was acquired by Allergan, Inc., part of AbbVie, Inc. from June 15, 2015 on September 08, 1994 for $16 million.

Part of Abbott Laboratories, Vascular Science, Inc. develops suture-free devices to facilitate coronary artery bypass grafting. The company is based in Minneapolis, MN. The company was founded by Daniel J. Sullivan, Simon H. Stertzer, Rudy A. Mazzocchi. Vascular Science was acquired by St. Jude Medical LLC, part of Abbott Laboratories from January 05, 2017 on September 27, 1999 for $100 million.

OmniGuide, Inc. develops advanced energy surgical solutions. It offers gynecology, head and neck, otolaryngology and otology services. The firm also provides enhance surgical accuracy, access and control for minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopy and robotic-assisted surgical products. The was founded by Yoel Fink, John D. Joannopoulos, Edwin L. Thomas and Uri Kolodny in 2000 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

OMNIlife science, Inc. manufactures orthopedic, prosthetic and other related products. The firm products are used in hip and knee replacement, joint pain and robotic surgery. The company was founded by Edward J. Cheal and George B. Cipolletti in 1999 and is headquartered in Raynham, MA.

CareMore Medical Enterprises, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare solutions. The firm offers medical health care services for seniors, as well as care programs for diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary patients. The company is headquartered in Cerritos, CA.

Covidien Unlimited Co. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of healthcare products for use in clinical and home settings. It operates through Medical Devices and U.S. Medical Supplies segments. The Medical Devices segment involves in the distribution of surgical solutions, peripheral vascular and neurovascular therapies, patient monitoring products, and airway and ventilation products. The U.S. Medical Supplies segment includes marketing of nursing care, medical surgical, SharpSafety brand, and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) products. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Baxter Corp. supplies health care and laboratory products. Its products are used for treating cancer, hemophilia, immune deficiencies, kidney disease, and trauma. The company is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada

NovaTract Surgical, Inc. manufactures and develops laparoscopic medical devices. It offers NovaTract, a laparoscopic retractor that addresses the need to increase visibility (by using fewer instruments), improves tissue manipulations, provides angle of retraction modifications and reduces the number of ports and incisions. The firm also offers its intra-abdominal retraction system for use in general, colorectal, gynecology, urology, urogynecology, bariatric, and robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery applications. The company was founded by Eleanor L. Tandler in April 2010 and is headquartered in Agoura Hills, CA.

ReadyDock, Inc. develops and provides tablet docking solutions for clinicians and patients. It offers storage, charging, security, and disinfection for tablets and mobile devices. The company was founded by David Engelhardt and Eric Rosow in 2012 and is headquartered in Avon, CT.

Avitus Orthopaedics, Inc. develops orthopedic technologies that improve clinical outcomes for surgeons and patients. Its medical device company, develops and commercializes a novel orthopedic surgical device for autologous bone graft harvesting. The firm offers Avitus bone harvester product. The company was founded by Neil Shah, Maxim Budyansky, Khaled Kebaish, A. Jay Khanna and Lee H. Riley III in 2011 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

AgNovos Healthcare LLC is a medical technology company that develops new products using regenerative medicine to address bone disease. The company is based in Rockville, MD, where they have their corporate headquarters, manufacturing, research & development, and corporate support services. The company's first product, the Ossure® Local Osteo-Enhancement Procedure Kit, is CE-marked to form new bone in the pelvis and extremities. AgNovos Healthcare was founded in 2012 by James Howe and Tanner Howe, with Tanner Howe serving as the CEO since then.

Axon Therapies, Inc. develops treatment for heart failure. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Deerfield Management Co. LP (Private Equity) (Deerfield) is a private equity subsidiary of Deerfield Management Co. LP founded in 1994. The firm is headquartered in the New York.

CathWorks Ltd. develops medical devices for the interventional cardiology market. Its technology is based on processing visual information and automatic multi-layered algorithms. The company was founded by Guy Lavi and Ifat Lavi in 2013 and is headquartered in Raanana, Israel.

MTrap, Inc. engages in the development of novel therapeutic devices that interfere with the intense dialogue and crosstalk between the primary tumor and the microenvironment and represent a new disruptive approach to cancer treatment. The company was founded by Maybelle L. Jordan and is headquartered in Huntington, NY.

New View Surgical, Inc. develops a proprietary surgical imaging system for laproscopic surgery. The company was founded by Mel Prenovitz, Art McKinley and Jesse Plouffe and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Medical Microinstruments SpA develops and manufactures surgical micro-instruments. The firm focuses on clinical outcomes for patients undergoing microsurgery, and offers advanced microsurgical procedures, while reducing costs for patients, hospitals and for society at large. The company was founded by Giuseppe Prisco, Hannah Teichmann and Massimiliano Simi in 2015 and is headquartered in Calci, Italy.

Cytoveris, Inc. provides health care services. The firm offers assistance cancer surgeons to discern between cancer tissue and healthy tissue in real-time during surgery. The company was founded by Alan Kersey in 1997 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

Encodia, Inc. engages in the research and development of protein analysis tools. The company was founded by Mark S. Chee, Michael Weiner, and Kevin Gunderson and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Palliare Ltd. is a manufacturer of surgical smoke evacuation and insufflation technologies with a vision to create a safer operating room. The company is based in Galway, Ireland. The Irish company offers solutions for endoscopic and laparoscopic procedures, including the EVA15 insufflator and EndoTrap™ device. Palliare provides resources for users of their products, including regulatory information, user manuals, and CE training. The company was founded in 2018 by John O'Dea, who has been the CEO since 2018.

Pleno, Inc. is a company that specializes in multi-omic instrument platform technology for clinical testing and biomedical research. The company is based in San Diego, CA and was founded by Pieter van Rooyen, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company's proprietary hypercoding™ technology uses signal processing techniques to provide targeted biological information with exceptional scale, precision, and performance.

Aurion Biotech, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotech company with offices in multiple locations. Aurion Biotech has initiated clinical trials in the US in 2023. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company's mission is to restore vision to millions of patients with life-changing regenerative therapies. Aurion Biotech has received the prestigious Prix Galien award for best start-up in biotech. The company's first candidate is an off-the-shelf, clinically validated cell therapy for corneal care, which has received regulatory approval. The company is privately held and backed by leading investors, including Deerfield, Alcon, Petrichor, Flying L Partners, Falcon Vision/KKR, and Visionary Ventures. Greg Kunst has been the CEO of the company since 2021.