James Leone Greene

Guidant Corp. manufactures cardiovascular therapeutic devices. The company also provides cardiac and peripheral vascular repair surgical systems. It operates in Europe and Japan. Guidant was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Part of Medtronic Plc, Arterial Vascular Engineering, Inc. is a company that makes a variety of stent systems and balloon angioplasty catheters. The company is based in Santa Rosa, CA. The company was founded by Simon H. Stertzer. Arterial Vascular Engineering was acquired by Medtronic, Inc., part of Medtronic Plc from January 27, 2015 on January 28, 1999 for $3,441.52 million.

Perclose, based in Menlo Park, Calif., designs, manufactures and markets less invasive medical devices that automate the surgical closure or connection of blood vessels.

Medtronic International Ltd. provides medical technology services. It contributes human welfare by application of biomedical engineering in the research, design, manufacture, and sale of instruments. The company is headquartered in Singapore.

MitralSolutions is developing innovative, implantable devices that repair heart valve abnormalities. MitralSolutions believes that there are substantial market opportunities in both the surgical and percutaneous applications and is developing a product portfolio that will address treating a greater number of patients earlier in their disease cycle, providing an improved quality of life.

Novate Medical Ltd. operates as a medical device company which focuses on the prevention of pulmonary embolism in venous thromboembolic events. Its product Sentry, bioconvertible inferior vena cava (IVC) filter for the prevention of pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients at transient PE risk. The company was founded by Charles Richard Taylor and Paul Burke Gilson in 2006 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Apica Cardiovascular Ltd. designs and develops innovative medical devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Its product includes innovative transapical access and closure system that is designed to simplify and standardize the technique used to open and close the apex of a beating hear. The company was founded by Ajit P. Yoganathan, Jorge H. Jimenez, Vinod H. Thourani and James L. Greene in November 2009 and is headquartered in Galway, Ireland.

Medlumics SL provides medical imaging diagnostics services. It specializes in optically guided medical devices. The firm’s proprietary integrated optics platform technology combines optical and electrical components in a miniature chip, enabling for the first time complex multi view optical probes of the size of a grain of rice and ultra-portable, hand-held OCT systems that produces real-time images. The company was founded by Eduardo Margallo Balbás and Jose Luis Rubio Guivernau on April 3, 2009 and is headquartered in Tres Cantos, Spain.