Ravish Sachar, MD, FACC

CEO & Founder

  • 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

Stephen MacKinnon

Chief Commercialization Officer

  • Former Vice President of Sales, DeVoro Medical
  • Former Vice President of Sales, Intact Vascular
  • Former Vice President of Sales,Neuronectics
  • BS, Business Management, University of Massachusetts

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

Steven Tyler

Vice President of Research & Development

  • Former Vice-President, R&D, Alucent Biomedical, Inc.
  • Former Head of Clinical Business, Profusa, Inc.
  • Former Vice-President, R&D, PQ Bypass, Inc.
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford
  • BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

James Clossick

Vice President of Regulatory Affairs

  • Former Vice-President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Engineering, OrbusNeich Medical
  • Former Director, Cordis Corporation
  • Two issued patents
  • BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri – Rolla