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Jeff Elkins Has Spent 30 Years Learning What Tiny Tools Must Get Right
Before Jeff Elkins became a repeat medtech CEO, he learned to scale products, read clinical data and worry about the expensive mistakes nobody else could see. His career is a practical study in how engineering judgment becomes company judgment.
James Reinstein
James Reinstein is the President and CEO of Conformal Medical, a New Hampshire medical device company building next-generation left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) technology to reduce stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation. A three-decade medtech operator, he spent 17 years at Boston Scientific in commercial leadership across Asia, Europe and Latin America before running a string of device companies as CEO, including Cutera, Drawbridge Health, Aptus Endosystems and Saranas. Known for insisting that a device company think commercially from day one, he took the helm at Conformal in 2022 to guide its foam-based CLAAS system through pivotal trials toward market.