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MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East - 2013

Inside the KCI/Apax deal with Cathy Burzik | A MassDevice podcast

July 29, 2013 By Brian Johnson

Big 100 East 2013 Women in the Corner Office

Photograph by Carolyn Bick

The 2011 marriage between Kinetic Concepts Inc., Apax Partners and a pair of Canadian pension funds wasn’t your typical merger.

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Mergers & Acquisitions, News Well Tagged With: Apax Partners, Kinetic Concepts Inc., MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East - 2013, MassDevice Q&A, Podcast/Feature Tease, Venture Capital/Private Equity

Investment, reimbursement and the FDA | 5 Questions with Amar Sawhney

July 23, 2013 By Arezu Sarvestani Leave a Comment

Amar Sawhney at the MassDevice Big 100 East 2013

Photograph by Carolyn Bick

Medtech super-entrepreneur Amar Sawhney has not been shy about sharing his success story.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East - 2013, MassDevice Q&A, oculartherapeutix

Layoffs are not an option, says Zoll CEO | Highlights from Big 100 East 2013

July 19, 2013 By Arezu Sarvestani Leave a Comment

MassDevice Big 100 East 2013

Photograph by Carolyn Bick

Richard Packer has been with Zoll Medical since 1992, taking on various roles in operations and finance before landing the corner office.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Layoffs, MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East - 2013, Zoll Medical

Finding medtech’s ‘diamond in the rough’ | Highlights from Big 100 East 2013

July 18, 2013 By Arezu Sarvestani Leave a Comment

Amar Sawhney at the MassDevice Big 100 East 2013

Photograph by Carolyn Bick

"I have been technology-centric, field-agnostic," serial entrepreneur and Ocular Therapeutix president & CEO Amar Sawhney told an audience this week a the MassDevice Big 100 East 2013 conference in Waltham, Mass.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East - 2013, oculartherapeutix

You can make a buck, but can you make a difference? | 5 questions for Dean Kamen

July 18, 2013 By Arezu Sarvestani Leave a Comment

Dean Kamen and Karen Licitra, MassDevice.com Big 100 East 2013

Dean Kamen poses with Johnson & Johnson Global Medical Solutions Group worldwide chairman Karen Licitra.

Photograph by Carolyn Bick

Dean Kamen is perhaps most commonly known for having invented the Segway, but he’s also invented a prosthetic robotic arm, a portable dialysis system and a robotic wheelchair that can climb stairs.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: DEKA Research and Development Corp., MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East - 2013, MassDevice Q&A

News makers and game changers at the MassDevice Big 100 East 2013

July 17, 2013 By Sony Salzman Leave a Comment

MassDevice Big 100 East 2013

Photograph by Carolyn Bick

Nearly 300 of the industry’s best and brightest gathered for a night of big ideas, industry insights and few cocktails last night at MassDevice.com’s Big 100 East 2013 conference in Waltham, Mass.

Filed Under: Mergers & Acquisitions, News Well Tagged With: APEX Medical, Aptitude LLC, conformis, Greenberg Traurig, Innovation, Johnson and Johnson, Kinetic Concepts Inc., MassDevice Big 100, MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East - 2013, NxStage Medical Inc., oculartherapeutix, Porzio Pharmaceutical Services LLC

Women in the corner office | MassDevice Big 100 East 2013

July 17, 2013 By Arezu Sarvestani Leave a Comment

Big 100 East 2013 Women in the Corner Office

Photograph by Carolyn Bick

For much of her career, former Kinetic Concepts CEO Catherine Burzik has had on her desk a plaque that reads, "Women must work twice as hard as men to be thought of half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult," she told an audience at MassDevice.com’s Big 100 East 2013 conference in Waltham, Mass., last night.

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, News Well Tagged With: Johnson and Johnson, Kinetic Concepts Inc., MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East - 2013

Podcast: Allergan CEO David Pyott at the MassDevice Big 100 West

June 3, 2013 By Brian Johnson

Allergan (NYSE:AGN) CEO David Pyott likes to describe himself as a "mountaineer," a "born marketer," and a bit of a masochist, but there’s 1 thing the man undoubtedly is: A great interview.

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, News Well Tagged With: Allergan, MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East - 2013, MassDevice Q&A, MassDevice.com, Podcast/Feature Tease

Podcast: Boston Scientific CEO Michael Mahoney at the MassDevice Big 100 East

May 27, 2013 By Brian Johnson

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Maybe the only mistake Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) made when they hired Michael Mahoney as CEO was waiting so long to do it.

After spending much of the last half of a decade in a turnaround that never seemed to get off the ground, the medical device goliath seems to be on the up and up.

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, News Well Tagged With: Boston Scientific, MassDevice Big 100, MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East - 2013, MassDevice Q&A

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