Benjamin D. Pless

St. Jude Medical LLC develops, manufactures and distributes cardiovascular medical devices for the global cardiac rhythm management, cardiovascular and atrial fibrillation therapy areas and neurostimulation medical devices for the management of chronic pain. The company was founded by Manuel A. Villafana in 1976 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Ventritex, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets implantable defibrillators and related products for the treatment of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation.

Proteus Digital Health, Inc. develops medicine products and therapeutic devices. It provides digital health products that collect behavioral, physiologic, and therapeutic metrics, such as medication adherence, heart rate, sleep patterns, physical activity, and stress levels into personal management tools delivered to the mobile devices of consumers. The company was founded by Andrew M. Thompson, George M. Savage, and Mark J. Zdeblick in 2001 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Autonomic Technologies, Inc. develops and commercializes innovative therapies for the treatment of severe headache. Its product, the ATI Neurostimulation System, is used for the treatment of acute pain of cluster headache. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Avertix Medical Systems, Inc. develops and markets cardiac medical devices. Its product allows to reduce time to treatment and minimize heart muscle damage The company was founded by Robert E. Fischell, Tim A. Fischell and David R. Fischell in 2001 and is headquartered in Shrewsbury, NJ.

Celero Systems, Inc. is a life science company. It develops ingestible system to detect and reverse opioid overdose. The company was founded by Benjamin D. Pless, Carlo Giovanni Traverso, Robert S. Langer Jr., and Jeremy N. Ruskin and is headquartered in Lincoln, MA.