Mark Foster is the president and CEO of CurvaFix, a Bellevue, Washington medical device company building curved intramedullary implants that follow the natural bend of the pelvis to repair fractures. He took the top job in July 2023, the same week the company closed a $39 million Series C led by MVM Partners, and his mandate is commercial scale: turning a novel, FDA-cleared implant into a nationally distributed product. Before CurvaFix he ran Trice Medical and led the U.S. sports medicine business at Smith & Nephew, part of roughly 24 years spent almost entirely inside orthopedics and medical devices.
Benjamin Arnold is the co-founder and CEO of COR Medical Ventures, a Solana Beach medical-device venture studio that partners with surgeon-inventors and corporations to push the next generation of orthopedic and spine devices to market. A Cornell-trained engineer who has shepherded more than 25 devices to launch, he sits at the 'center of rotation' the company is named for, running a portfolio of roughly a dozen companies spanning surgical robotics, spinal fixation, fracture hardware, and wearable rehab tech.