R. Scott Jones is the Chairman and CEO of Intravascular Imaging Incorporated (i3), a Wilton, Connecticut medtech startup commercializing a 3-French NIRF-IVUS catheter that lets cardiologists see both the anatomy and the biology of a diseased coronary artery in a single pass. A medical device operator with more than 25 years in the field, he once ran GE Medical Systems' cardiovascular business across the Americas and Asia and has steered companies from two-person startups to organizations of 7,000 employees. At i3 he is the commercial engine behind a technology born in the labs of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Technical University of Munich.
Souvik Paul is the CEO and Founder of Aurie, a medtech company that built the first FDA De Novo-cleared reusable intermittent catheter system. A Harvard-educated designer and former J&J strategist, Paul was driven to start Aurie after witnessing a family member's struggle with catheter-associated infections following a spinal cord injury. His Oakland-based startup has raised $14.24M and is pioneering a no-touch, automatically disinfecting catheter system designed to transform care for the 600,000 Americans who rely on intermittent catheters.