Keynote:
The New Medical Device Landscape: Adapt or Fade Away |
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| Time: 11:00–11:45 A.M. EST / 8:00–8:45 A.M. PST |
Speaker:
Venkat Rajan, Industry Manager, Medical Devices, Frost & Sullivan |
| Frost & Sullivan Medical Devices Industry Manager Venkat Rajan has more than five years of market intelligence-gathering and custom-consulting experience. Venkat’s extensive expertise in healthcare markets spans a wide range of topics, including laboratory research, hospitals, major medical device manufacturers, and third-party research. Since joining Frost & Sullivan in January 2005, he oversees a team of analysts while generating direct syndicated and custom analysis of targeted dynamic medical device sectors. Venkat maintains a focus on orthopedics, advanced wound care, cardiovascular, surgery settings, robotics/navigation, oncology/cancer, long-term patient care, wellness, and healthcare business models. He earned a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. |
Moderator:
Shana Leonard, Editor-in-Chief, Medical Product Manufacturing News and Qmed.com |
| Shana Leonard joined the editorial staff of Medical Product Manufacturing News in 2005 and has served as editor-in-chief of the brand since 2008. She also holds the position of editor-in-chief of Qmed.com. As the editorial leader of these two medical device brands, Shana works with her team to optimize content for medical device manufacturers and to provide extensive information on the components, materials, equipment, and services they need to design and develop a finished medical device. She holds a BS in Journalism from Boston University. |
Session 1:
Design Trends in Outsourcing Innovation |
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| Time: 12:00–1:00 P.M. EST / 9:00–10:00 A.M. PST |
Moderator:
Heather Thompson, Editor-in-Chief, Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry |
| Heather Thompson is Editor-in-Chief for MD+DI, and has more than 10 years in the publishing industry, covering FDA-regulated technologies. She joined MD+DI in 2004. Thompson holds a BA in English from University of California, Irvine. Her areas of research include emerging medical technologies, regulatory analysis, and policy. |
Moderator:
Jim Mellor, VP, Marketing & Sales at Lake Region Medical |
| Jim Mellor is vice president of sales and marketing for Lake Region Medical (Chaska, MN). He has more than 30 years’ experience in the medical device industry, including 15 years with Medtronic CRM. He earned an MBA in marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
Moderator:
John Carey, Vice President, New Business Development, Foliage |
| John Carey leads Foliage's new business development team in creating new client business opportunities and ensuring the growth of established accounts. John also provides corporate guidance to the medical and life sciences practice. John joined Foliage in 1996 as the first sales executive with over 15 years experience in the medical industry, John has been integral in the growth of the company as well as in the implementation of business processes to support this growth. Before joining Foliage, John held direct sales and sales management positions with several companies that offer hospital and clinical information software to the health care industry, including Cerner Corporation, MEDITECH, and Versyss. John holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University and he served four years in the U.S. Navy. |
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Session 2:
Medical Device Miniaturization: The Quest for the Incredible Shrinking Parts |
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| Time: 2:00–3:00 P.M. EST / 11:00–12:00 A.M. PST |
Moderator:
Shana Leonard, Editor-in-Chief, Medical Product Manufacturing News and Qmed.com |
| Shana Leonard joined the editorial staff of Medical Product Manufacturing News in 2005 and has served as editor-in-chief of the brand since 2008. She also holds the position of editor-in-chief of Qmed.com. As the editorial leader of these two medical device brands, Shana works with her team to optimize content for medical device manufacturers and to provide extensive information on the components, materials, equipment, and services they need to design and develop a finished medical device. She holds a BS in Journalism from Boston University. |
Speaker:
Brent Hahn, Sr Sales Engineer, Accumold |
| Brent Hahn is a Sales Leader at Accumold, a high-tech manufacturer of precision micro, small, and lead-frame injection-molded plastic components. Hahn has 15 years of Project Management and Business Development experience in the resin, injection molding, and microinjection molding industries with expertise in the Medical and Microelectronics markets. Hahn received his BS in Plastics Engineering and his MBA from Pittsburg State University. |
Speaker:
John Whynott, Technical Director, Mikrotech, LLC |
| John Whynott has served as Technical Director of Mikrotech LLC since January 2004. Previously, he served as engineering manager and project engineer. John has ten years experience in medical micromanufacturing and a combined 25 years of experience in engineering and management. He earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering technology from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and a master's degree in engineering management from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. |
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Session 3:
Sourcing Suppliers in China |
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| Time: 4:00–5:00 P.M. EST / 1:00–2:00 P.M. PST |
Moderator:
Norbert Sparrow, Editor In Chief |
| Norbert Sparrow has been an editor at UBM Canon (formerly Canon Communications) for more than 15 years. In addition to China Medical Device Manufacturer, he oversees Japan Medical Design and Manufacturing Technology,European Medical Device Technology, medtechinsider, and various associated products. |
Speaker:
John Merritt, Founder of Merritt, Myers Inc. |
| Currently running a medical device consultancy in China that he founded, John P. Merritt has spent his entire career in the medical device and pharmaceutical industry. He has extensive international experience working for leading medical device manufacturers, medical packaging material suppliers, and packaging machinery fabricators. He has also been involved with more than one overseas start-up and has successfully led the start-up of a WFOE in China. Merritt holds an MSME, specializing in Manufacturing Engineering from Columbia University (USA); an MBA, specializing in International Business from the University of Rhode Island (USA); and is a Certified Packaging Professional (CPP) by IoPP. He has been active in the industry, for many years, having made industry presentations and published numerous articles in Asia, Europe, and North America. |
Speaker:
Todd Dickson, Co-founder and President, Lumenous Device Technologies Inc. |
| Todd Dickson is co-founder and President of Lumenous Device Technologies Inc., a medical device contract manufacturer headquartered in the Silicon Valley area. Lumenous produces medical device materials, components, and assembled products at locations in California and China. Prior to founding Lumenous, Dickson led the medical device R&D and manufacturing division of LPL Systems Inc., an early pioneer in stent manufacturing technology, and established the first stent manufacturing facility in Ireland, now a center of medical device excellence. In addition to supplying established multinational companies, Mr. Dickson’s work involves well over 200 innovative start-up companies from various countries. He has cofounded three companies in the past 10 years, including one in China that has been active since 2002. Lumenous Device Technologies is best known for the production of micro-scale implants such as coronary and neurovascular stents. |
Speaker:
Ames Gross, President, Pacific Bridge Medical |
| Ames Gross founded Pacific Bridge Medical in 1988 and has helped over 200 medical companies with business development and regulatory issues in Asia. Gross is a frequent contributor of articles on Asian medical issues to Clinica (UK), MD+DI (Los Angeles), and other medically oriented journals and has been a featured speaker on the Asian medical markets at the MD&M events, the Medtrade Home Health Care Exhibition, the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society’s annual and regional meetings, and a variety of other medically oriented meetings and conferences. In 2008, MD+DI named Gross one of the top 100 executives in the medical business. Prior to establishing PBM, Gross worked at three major Wall Street firms. He has a BA degree, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia University. |
Speaker:
Tez Kurwie, International Sales Director, based in Europe, Rosti Group
Karl Stillman, Asia Region Sales Director, based in China, Rosti Group |
| Between them, Kurwie and Stillman have more than 40 years of experience in injection moulding gained in Europe, the United States and Asia. Rosti is a global plastics injection moulding company and subcontract manufacturer to the domestic appliances, business machine, packaging, automotive and life science markets. Rosti maintains facilities in the United Kingdom, Poland, Sweden, Germany, China, India and now Malaysia certified and accredited to global manufacturing standards. The company recently inaugurated a dedicated medical manufacturing plant with a Class 8 cleanroom in Suzhou, China. Rosti is owned by the Swedish investment group Nordstjernan. |
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