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The Teacher Who Kept Marketing to Teachers
He taught eighth grade for nine years and was named Teacher of the Year. Then he spent the next two decades convincing the world's biggest education brands to market like they still remembered the classroom.
Supira Medical
Supira Medical is a clinical-stage cardiovascular device company in Los Gatos, California, building a next-generation percutaneous ventricular assist device (pVAD). Incubated inside Amr Salahieh's Shifamed innovation hub and led by CEO Nitin Salunke, the Supira System is a low-profile (10F), high-flow heart pump designed to give the heart temporary circulatory support during high-risk coronary interventions and cardiogenic shock, with the goal of moving more blood through a smaller sheath than the incumbent devices. The company raised a $120M oversubscribed Series E in March 2025 and won FDA approval to begin its SUPPORT II pivotal trial in 2026.
Adona Medical
Adona Medical is a clinical-stage medical device company in Los Gatos, California developing the Delphi System, a chronically adjustable interatrial shunt with integrated bi-atrial pressure monitoring designed to personalize heart failure therapy over time. A Shifamed portfolio company founded in 2019 by Brian Fahey, Amr Salahieh, and Lewis Schwartz, Adona uses shape memory nitinol and an external induction catheter to resize the shunt after implantation without further invasive procedures.
Siesta Medical, Inc.
Siesta Medical, Inc. is a privately held medical device company in Los Gatos, California that builds minimally invasive implants and instruments to treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Its flagship AIRLIFT procedure - performed with the FDA-cleared Encore System and the Revolution Suture Passer - lets ear, nose and throat surgeons pull the hyoid bone and tongue base forward to keep the airway open during sleep. The knotless, fully adjustable approach takes roughly 30 minutes, works regardless of a patient's anatomy, BMI or apnea severity, and has been used in more than 2,000 patients.
Tenon Medical, Inc.
Tenon Medical is a Los Gatos, California medical device company that built the Catamaran SI Joint Fusion System, a patented, less-invasive way to fuse the sacroiliac joint with a single titanium implant placed along an inferior-posterior trajectory. Founded in 2012 and public on the Nasdaq since 2022 (TNON), Tenon targets the often-overlooked SI joint, a frequent and hard-to-diagnose source of chronic lower-back pain. In 2025 it expanded into a multi-product sacro-pelvic platform by acquiring the SiVantage SImmetry technology portfolio.
Peter Martin
Peter Martin is the co-founder, President and CEO of Siesta Medical, a Los Gatos medical device company building minimally invasive treatments for obstructive sleep apnea that need no masks and no machines. Since 2009 he has guided the company from an idea to FDA-cleared products - the Encore System, the Revolution Suture Passer and the AIRLIFT hyoid suspension procedure - that reposition the airway with two small implants and a stitch. A Duke and Stanford trained mechanical engineer, he spent 15-plus years in medical device operations before turning Siesta into one of the most-cited names in surgical sleep apnea care.
El Camino Health
El Camino Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system that has served Silicon Valley and the South Bay for more than 60 years. Born from a 1950s community vote and a tax that residents levied on themselves, it runs two acute care hospitals in Mountain View and Los Gatos plus roughly two dozen care locations across Santa Clara County. With 471 beds, about 4,480 employees and 1,585 physicians, it blends a community-rooted mission with the technology-forward instincts of the valley it sits in.
Jim Hori
Jim Hori is President and CEO of the YMCA of Silicon Valley, one of the largest YMCA associations in the United States. He took the helm in June 2022 after 22 years at Silicon Valley Bank, where he served as Managing Director and led the SVB Foundation for 19 years. A Fresno native and Fresno State graduate, Hori spent more than a decade on the YMCA board before being asked to run the place.
Jim Douglas
Jim Douglas is a five-time CEO and seasoned enterprise technology executive now leading Luciq (formerly Instabug) as it pioneers the category of Agentic Mobile Observability. With over 30 years of executive experience — including transforming Wind River from a flat-growth embedded software company into a half-billion-dollar enterprise — Douglas brings a rare combination of go-to-market expertise and operational scale to a startup that counts DoorDash, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Disney among its customers. Appointed CEO in February 2025, he oversaw Instabug's September 2025 rebrand to Luciq.ai, signaling a shift from passive monitoring to AI agents that autonomously detect, diagnose, and fix mobile app issues.
Sagi Ben-Moshe
Sagi Ben-Moshe is the founder and CEO of Lumana, a hybrid-cloud AI video security platform headquartered in Los Gatos with R&D roots in Tel Aviv. A serial entrepreneur and former Chief Incubation Officer at Intel - where he ran the RealSense computer vision division - he is rebuilding video surveillance around AI that perceives context, not just pixels.
Brian Fahey
Brian Fahey is a serial medtech entrepreneur who co-founded Adona Medical, a clinical-stage company developing an adjustable interatrial shunt with integrated bi-atrial pressure sensors for heart failure management. A Duke-trained biomedical engineer and Stanford Biodesign alumnus, Fahey previously co-founded Niveus Medical, which delivered over 10,000 ICU rehabilitation treatments before being acquired by Stryker in 2017. At Adona, he guided the company through $95.5M in total funding including a $33.5M Series C in 2024, and oversaw the initiation of first-in-human clinical trials before stepping down as CEO in December 2025.