Daniel Pelak

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Spectranetics Corp. develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes single-use medical devices used in invasive procedures in the cardiovascular system. The company was founded by Robert Golobic, Johan Sverdrup, and Richard T. Simko in 1984 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO.

Closure Medical Corp. designs, develops and manufactures biomaterial-based medical adhesive products such as family of DERMABOND Topical Skin Adhesive products to meet topical skin adhesive needs of physicians. It was founded by F. William Schmidt in 1990 and is located in Raleigh, NC

Affinergy LLC develops site-specific biological systems using biofriendly linkers that selectively adhere to proteins, drugs, cells, and biomaterial surfaces. The firm focuses on developing coatings and medical devices for the orthopedic and cardiovascular markets. It constructs bifunctional peptide linkers that selectively immobilize proteins, cells, and therapeutics onto biomaterial surfaces. The firm offers its products for orthopedics, cardiovascular, and tissue engineering; and drug delivery and stem cells markets. The company was founded by Daniel J. Kenan, Jonathan Gindes, and Mark W. Grinstaff in 2002 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Vertos Medical, Inc. develops and markets minimally invasive devices for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis. Its product is called mild devices, which conists of mild Tissue Sculpter, mild Portal, mild Trocar and Handle, mild Bone Sculpter Rongeur, mild Portal Stabilizer, mild Depth Guide, and mild Surgical Clamp. The company was founded by David Solsberg and Donald F. Schomer in 2005 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

AGA Medical Holdings, Inc. operates as a holding company for manufacturers of medical devices for the treatment of heart defects and vascular diseases. The companies AGA Medical Holdings operates sell devices, which are used by pediatric cardiologists, radiologists, and vascular surgeons. The company was founded in July 2005 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

InnerPulse, Inc. provides innovative technology, devices, software protocols, and procedures to transform the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. It was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Oncoscope, Inc. develops optical imaging systems for the early detection of cancers. Its product is Barrett's Esophagus. The firm operates as a medical device company that develops proprietary optical imaging systems for epithelial tissues in the oral cavity, esophagus, stomach, colon, lung, cervix and bladder. Its systems provide in vivo measurements of the diameter and density of cell nuclei. The company was founded by William J. Brown and Adam Wax in June 2006 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

K2M Group Holdings, Inc. is a global medical device company. It focuses on designing, developing and commercializing innovative and proprietary complex spine technologies and techniques. The company was founded by John Philip Kostuik and Eric D. Major in June 29, 2010 and is headquartered in Leesburg, VA.