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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.
Mark Foster
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.