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Kerry Pope
President, Chief Executive Officer & DirectorMr. Pope is a Bay Area veteran and has been CEO of startup companies in multiple market spaces. He founded an imaging distribution company (DiaMed Healthcare); he founded Novare Surgical Systems with Dr. Tom Fogarty (sold to Intuitive Surgical); served as CEO of Viveve Medical (women’s health), and first CEO of Core Mobility Solutions (mobility technology). He also served as Executive Director of Mentoring for the Fogarty Institute for Innovation for five years.
Prior to his CEO service, Mr. Pope served as sales and marketing leader for multiple companies including Neuroscience (EEG mapping); Vitaphore Corporation (critical care and infection control) acquired by Integra Life Sciences; Intramed Laboratories (Vascular imaging) acquired by Baxter CVG vascular surgery division; Computer Motion (surgical robotics) acquired by Intuitive Surgical.
Mr. Pope holds a B.S. in Business from the University of Maryland and was awarded a commission in the United States Air Force. He served as a pilot and aircraft commander, rising to the rank of Major. He is also a co-founder and Director of the Bay Area Band of CEOs, a business social club for CEOs of medical device companies in the Silicon Valley/Greater Bay area.Ivan Ma
Chief Product OfficerIvan Ma brings over 15 year of experience in the medical device industry in various leadership and design positions spanning a wide range of medical devices; from single use to complex surgical hardware. Most recently he was a manager of robotic systems at Verb Surgical, at Verily (an Alphabet company) and Ethicon (a Johnson and Johnson company) joint venture, where led various teams toward critical program milestones starting from the company’s inception in 2016. Prior to that, Ivan had leading and engineering roles in the companies with a broad range of technologies such as: intracardiac pacemaker, therapeutic hypothermia, deep brain stimulation, cryogenic tissue ablation, a cell phone enabled otoscope, and a white blood cell imaging system. Ivan has specialized in bringing early phase projects through development in preparation for FDA submission and human use. Ivan holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Boston University.
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Kerry Pope
President, Chief Executive Officer & DirectorMr. Pope is a Bay Area veteran and has been CEO of startup companies in multiple market spaces. He founded an imaging distribution company (DiaMed Healthcare); he founded Novare Surgical Systems with Dr. Tom Fogarty (sold to Intuitive Surgical); served as CEO of Viveve Medical (women’s health), and first CEO of Core Mobility Solutions (mobility technology). He also served as Executive Director of Mentoring for the Fogarty Institute for Innovation for five years.
Prior to his CEO service, Mr. Pope served as sales and marketing leader for multiple companies including Neuroscience (EEG mapping); Vitaphore Corporation (critical care and infection control) acquired by Integra Life Sciences; Intramed Laboratories (Vascular imaging) acquired by Baxter CVG vascular surgery division; Computer Motion (surgical robotics) acquired by Intuitive Surgical.
Mr. Pope holds a B.S. in Business from the University of Maryland and was awarded a commission in the United States Air Force. He served as a pilot and aircraft commander, rising to the rank of Major. He is also a co-founder and Director of the Bay Area Band of CEOs, a business social club for CEOs of medical device companies in the Silicon Valley/Greater Bay area.Theodore P. Abraham
M.D., Crystalline Medical Founder & Chairman of the BoardDr. Abraham is currently The Meyer Friedman Distinguished Professor of Medicine at University of California in San Francisco where he is Clinical Chief of Cardiology and Director of Echocardiography. Until July 2017 he was Professor of Medicine, and Radiology and Radiologic Service and Associate Dean for Research at Johns Hopkins University. He was also Director of Echocardiography and Director Johns Hopkins HCM Center of Excellence. He is a board certified clinical cardiologist with advanced training in ultrasound.
He has been involved in ultrasound research funded by the NIH and industry for 20 years and has peer-reviewed publications in almost all major cardiac ultrasound technologies, including transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, three-dimensional echocardiography, contrast echocardiography, tissue Doppler and strain echocardiography, and small animal imaging. Dr. Abraham is an active clinical echocardiographer and started echo-guided pericardiocentesis at Johns Hopkins.Jeffrey G. Gold
Mr. Gold is a serial CEO and entrepreneur with over four decades of executive experience in companies addressing significant clinical needs in peripheral vascular, neurovascular and cardiovascular medicine.
He has served as CEO (CryoVascular Systems, Myoscience, Velomedix), VP of Research and Development (Cordis), VP of Manufacturing (Cordis), Venture Partner (Longitude Capital), and on the Boards of Directors of multiple public and private medical device companies.
Mr. Gold holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and an MBA from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and is a graduate of GE’s Manufacturing Management Program.
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