Pamela B. Westbrook

LivaNova USA, Inc. engages in the design, development, sales, and marketing of implantable medical devices. It operates through providing neuromodulation therapy, vagus nerve stimulation therapy (VNS Therapy) for the treatment of refractory epilepsy, and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Granbury, TX.

Centerpulse AG was a medical technology group, which served the reconstructive joint, spinal and dental implant markets. Its subsidiaries developed, produced and distributed medical implants and biological materials for orthopedic, spinal and dental markets worldwide. The product array included artificial joints, dental implants, spinal implants and instrumentation. The company was headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

MicroMed Cardiovascular, Inc. is a medical company engaged in the manufacture and distribution of miniaturized heart pump known as the DeBakey VAD to address congestive heart failure. The company was founded on October 6, 1995 is headquartered in Houston, TX.

OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets orthodontic devices. The firm engages in the development, manufacture and marketing of products to enhance dental care and orthodontic treatment. It develops and sells AcceleDent, a FDA-cleared clinical approach to safely accelerate orthodontic tooth movement by applying gentle micropulses, SoftPulse Technology, as a complement to existing orthodontic treatment. The company was founded by Mark Kwatia, Kirk A. Purcell, Lawrence W. Swol, Colin I. James and Anna Lisa Somera in 2007 and is headquartered in Bellaire, TX.

GMD International, Inc. manufactures industrial process measurement equipment. The company's products include temperature and heat measuring instruments, humidity, and moisture measuring instruments, pressure measuring and control instruments, liquid and gas flow measuring and observing instruments. The company is headquartered in Houma, LA.