Dr. Behbahani joined NEA’s healthcare team in 2007 and specializes in healthcare investments in the biopharmaceutical, medical device, specialty pharmaceutical and healthcare services sectors. Prior to joining NEA, Ali worked as an intern and later as a consultant in business development at The Medicines Company, a specialty pharmaceutical company developing acute care cardiovascular products. He previously held positions as a Venture Associate at Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and as a Healthcare Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers. He conducted basic science research in the fields of viral fusion inhibition and structural proteomics at the National Institutes of Health and at Duke University. Ali concurrently earned his MD degree from The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and his MBA degree from The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, where he graduated with Honors and was a Palmer Scholar. He graduated summa cum laude and received his bachelor’s degrees with distinction in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Chemistry from Duke University.

Dr. Kadhiresan has more than a decade of operational experience in various functional roles including research, product development, and business development. Before joining JJDC, as head of Business Development at Guidant, Inc., now Boston Scientific, Inc., Dr. Kadhiresan led several transactions to access novel medical device technologies with venture investments, M&As, licensing and joint ventures. Prior to entering business development, he led the research and development of multiple early-stage technologies and products in cardiac rhythm management and heart failure. Dr. Kadhiresan was instrumental in the development of the cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure, now a multi-billion dollar worldwide market. At Heart Rhythm Technologies, a subsidiary of Guidant, he led the development of an ablation technology for treatment of atrial fibrillation and raised venture financing for the project. In addition, Dr. Kadhiresan is an inventor on more than 40 patents and has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Kadhiresan received a PhD and Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (REC), Trichy, India.

Mr. Graf serves on the Board of Directors for American Medical Systems, Inc., Lifenet, CABG Medical, Intermagnetics and CVRx^®. He is a past director of ATS Medical and the National Association of Manufacturers. Mr. Graf was Group Chairman of Guidant’s four operating groups: Cardiac Rhythm Management, Cardiac Surgery, Endovascular Surgery and Vascular Intervention from 2000 to 2004 and retired in July, 2004. Prior to this position, he was President of CPI, which is now part of Guidant’s Cardiac Rhythm Management Group (1992 to 2000) and was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of CPI from 1990 to 1992. He held a variety of management positions with Eli Lilly’s Medical Devices and Diagnostic Division between 1976 – 1990 including: Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Senior Vice-President of Operations at Physio Control Corporation. He was a district sales manager with Eli Lilly from 1976-1980. He is a graduate of Boston University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. He served in the United States Air Force and achieved the rank of Captain prior to his honorable discharge. He earned a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from Indiana University.

Geoff Pardo joined Gilde Healthcare in 2011 as a Partner working out of the office in Boston/Cambridge, MA and is focusing on Gilde’s investments in North America. He led the investments in CVRx^®, InovaLabs (acquired by ResMed), BionX and Vapotherm and represents Gilde as a member of the board of directors for each company.

Previously, he was a Partner at Spray Venture Partners where he led investments into Interlace Medical (sold to Hologic), Solace Therapeutics, TearScience and Cascade Ophthalmics. He served on the board of Solace, TearScience and Cascade, and was actively involved in Interlace and Conventus Orthopedics.

Geoff also served as President & CEO of Facet Solutions, a spinal implant company focused on treating lumbar spinal stenosis until the company was sold to Globus Medical in 2011. He has also worked at Cardinal Partners as an Associate leading their investing activity in the medical device sector. He was responsible for sourcing and managing investments in Replication Medical and CardioOptics.

Geoff began his career in medical devices as a product manager with Synthes USA.

He has a B.A. with honors in History from Brown University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business. He is a US citizen based in Gilde Healthcare’s Cambridge, MA office.

Mr. Slattery serves on the Board of Exosome Diagnostics, a privately-held molecular diagnostics company, and CVRx^®. He has served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of TransEnterix, Inc. since October 2013. Previously, Mr. Slattery served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Baxano Surgical, Inc., a minimally invasive spine company, from April 2010 until September 2013. Mr. Slattery served as a member of the Baxano Surgical Board of Directors from November 2007 until April 2010 and resigned in connection with his appointment as an officer. From February 1996 through August 2007, Mr. Slattery served in various roles of increasing responsibility at Digene Corporation, a molecular diagnostics company that was acquired by Qiagen, N.V. in August 2007, including from October 2006 through August 2007 as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance and Information Systems. Mr. Slattery served on the Board of Directors of Micromet, Inc., a publicly-held biopharmaceutical company, which was acquired by Amgen in March 2012. Mr. Slattery received a B.S. degree in Accountancy from Bentley University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Nadim Yared is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CVRx^®. Mr. Yared had previously served as Vice President and General Manager of Medtronic Navigation, the leading supplier of integrated image-guided surgery products in the world, from 2002 – 2006. He also worked at GE Medical for 10-years, where he had been Vice President of Global Marketing for the OEC Medical Systems and Vice President and General Manager of GE’s European X-ray business based in Paris. Mr. Yared has an engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, and an MBA from INSEAD, France. Mr. Yared is a member of the Board of Directors for AdvaMed, MDIC, and CVRx^®. In addition, Mr. Yared has recently served as the Chairman of the AdvaMed Accel Board and he is currently the chairman of the AdvaMed Board of Directors. This is the first time that the CEO of a small company has become chairman of the AdvaMed Board of Directors in the 41 years of existence of the organization. Finally, Mr. Yared is one of the “100 people to know in 2017”, according to Minneapolis’ Twin Cities Business Magazine.

Nadim Yared is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CVRx^®. Mr. Yared had previously served as Vice President and General Manager of Medtronic Navigation, the leading supplier of integrated image-guided surgery products in the world, from 2002 – 2006. He also worked at GE Medical for 10-years, where he had been Vice President of Global Marketing for the OEC Medical Systems and Vice President and General Manager of GE’s European X-ray business based in Paris. Mr. Yared has an engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, and an MBA from INSEAD, France. Mr. Yared is a member of the Board of Directors for AdvaMed, MDIC, and CVRx^®. In addition, Mr. Yared has recently served as the Chairman of the AdvaMed Accel Board and he is currently the chairman of the AdvaMed Board of Directors. This is the first time that the CEO of a small company has become chairman of the AdvaMed Board of Directors in the 41 years of existence of the organization. Finally, Mr. Yared is one of the “100 people to know in 2017”, according to Minneapolis’ Twin Cities Business Magazine.

Mr. Brintnall has 38 years of business experience and has been the head of finance at six emerging growth companies (three in technology and three in medical devices) including Computer Network Technology, Integ, and Survivalink. John has an undergraduate degree in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.

Ms. Liz Galle has over 20 years of cardiovascular clinical trial experience.  Prior to coming to CVRx^®, she lead statistical and clinical scientist groups at Guidant (Boston Scientific Cardiac Rhythm Management) and was involved in the Women’s Health Initiative Study while at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.  Liz earned a masters degree in biostatistics from Yale University School of Public Health.

Ms. Stubben brings diverse experience from a range of healthcare sectors to CVRx^®.  Previously, Julia spent 5 years at Medtronic, where she helped the cardiac rhythm management group conceptualize and launch a disruptive business model, NayaMed, throughout Europe.  NayaMed was the first company to exclusively offer online distribution and support of implantable cardiac devices.  Prior to this, Julia held positions in business development at PainCeptor Pharma, a private biotech company in Canada, and in sales for Novartis Pharmaceuticals in the United States. Julia is a regular speaker on strategic innovation at the London Business School, and holds an MBA from INSEAD in France & Singapore and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from McGill University in Canada.

Mr. DuPay has 25 years of medical device experience. He spent 15 years with Medtronic, Inc., where he was a Senior Director in Leads Product Development. He has also held positions as Senior Director of Operations, Director of Quality and several engineering and management roles associated with implantable devices in Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Management business. Joe received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Dayton’s School of Engineering.

Mr. Moore has over 20 years of medical device experience in the areas of marketing and sales leadership.  Tom leads all initiatives related to the successful enrollment of the BeAT-HF Pivotal study and market preparation for commercialization.  In this capacity he serves as an Officer for CVRx^®.  Prior to joining CVRx^® in 2007, Tom spent 10 years at Medtronic focused on international and US market development of neuromodulation therapies. Tom received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Colorado and his MBA from the Carlson School of Business.

Mr. Bruhn-Ding has over 33 years of experience in the medical device industry. He has held positions at St. Jude Medical, Guidant and Angeion in research, product development, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, and clinical affairs.  Most recently prior to CVRx^®, Dean was the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for St. Jude Medical (SJM), Cardiology Division and held other Vice President and Director positions at the SJM Daig Division in Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Affairs, and Quality Assurance. Dean earned his undergraduate degree in Medical Technology from North Dakota State University.