Rob A. Abrams

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.

Target Therapeutics, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets disposable and implantable medical devices. It provides medical devices used in minimally invasive procedures to treat vascular diseases and other diseases related to small vessels of the circulatory system. The company was founded by Anna Marie and John R. Daniels in 1985 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Sanderling Management CO LLC (Sanderling Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1979 by Robert G. McNeil. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Theregen, Inc. develops cell based therapies for cardiovascular and vascular disorders. Its product Anginera is a cell-based, three-dimensional human tissue patch that induces formation of mature blood vessels in the human myocardium. The company was founded by Michael Siani-Rose and H. Martin Lades in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pulsar Vascular, Inc. engages in the design and development of minimally invasive medical devices for the endovascular treatment of neurovascular disorders. The company was founded by Joseph M. Eskridge and Gilbert Clarke on August 1, 2005 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. manufactures medical devices. It also makes cardiac and peripheral vascular repair surgical systems. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

LocalMed, Inc. manufactures medical devices for interventional cardiology. It provides analysis & data on pharma biotech device & diagnostic company strategy & trends.The company was founded by Aaron V. Kaplan and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.