Mr. Remen is a business founder and serial entrepreneur with C level management experience in aerospace, agriculture, data communications, telecommunications, industrial instrumentation, out-sourced engineering, and Medical Device industries. In his aerospace company, Mr. Remen pioneered the reclamation of expensive hydraulic and dielectric fluids for the U.S. Military. In his agriculture company, Mr. Remen pioneered the continuous feeding of cro

An inventor and serial entrepreneur with over 20 patents for products for treating cardiovascular and heart disease. His TALENT stent graft for aortic aneurysm repair has treated over 120,000 patients worldwide since it's introduction in 1994 and holds a world leading market share today as part of Medtronic Vascular. In 1983 Leonhardt was Export Sales Manager, and the first founding employee, of American General Medical Corporation in Hardeeville

Mr. Kramer’s CFO experience spans 25 years of helping companies grow from start-up to over $100 million in sales, from high tech to life sciences. Most recently, he was CFO at Somanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a start-up, where he helped take the company through a reverse merger onto the NASDAQ. Earlier, at Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an emerging company, as CFO he helped raise $38 million in venture capital. Previously, at Gen-Probe, Inc., an

Section Head, Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center
University of California San Diego

Dennis Bandyk, MD, is a Professor of Surgery at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Chief, Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery located at the Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center. He received his undergraduate (BSE–Aerospace Engineering), masters (MSE-Bioenginee