Ravish Sachar, MD, FACC

Founder, CEO & Chairman

  • Inventor of Contego Technology
  • Interventional Cardiologist, North Carolina Heart and Vascular, UNC Healthcare
  • Physician-in-chief, North Carolina Heart and Vascular Hospital
  • Co-Managing Director, Rex Health Ventures
  • Several issued or pending patents
  • Author of several publications, chapters, and two textbooks

David Stern, MS

President & COO

  • Former Vice President, CardioMEMS Development & Clinical Engineering, St. Jude Medical
  • Former CEO and Executive Vice President, CardioMEMS, Inc.
  • Former Vice President and Business Unit Manager, C. R. Bard, Inc.
  • 12 issued patents
  • BS, Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • MS, Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Nathalie Greene, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

  • Former Vice President of Finance, nContact, Inc (acquired by AtriCure)
  • Former Executive Director of Finance and Administration, Amphora Discovery Corp
  • Former Site Controller, Eli Lilly and Company
  • Former Audit Assurance Senior, Coopers and Lybrand
  • BS, Management and Accounting, Hartwick College

Elizabeth Saylors, MS

Vice President of Compliance & Scientific Affairs

  • Former Director of Clinical Research, Wake Heart Research, Wake Heart and Vascular
  • MS, Biomedical Science, Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • BS, Biology/Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Authored several publications in the field of carotid and coronary intervention

Douglas Ferguson, MS, RAC

Vice President of Regulatory Affairs

  • Former VP, Regulatory, Quality and Clinical, Tryton Medical
  • Former WW Director of RA, BD
  • B.S., Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
  • M.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham