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Holly Rockweiler Built a Company Around the Problem Everyone Else Called a Niche
She left a comfortable research career to put the patient back in the room. Twelve years, dozens of patents and one pivotal trial later, Holly Rockweiler's method is still disarmingly simple: listen first, then build.
Jeffery Ryan
Jeffery Ryan is the co-founder, president, and CEO of Interscope, Inc., a Massachusetts medical device company behind the EndoRotor System, a mechanical, non-thermal tool for interventional gastroenterology and pulmonology. A former U.S. Air Force captain who moved into medical device sales at Medtronic and Smith & Nephew, Ryan launched Interscope in 2013 with physician co-founder Dr. Ramon A. Franco, Jr., steering the EndoRotor from concept to FDA clearances and a 2020 distribution partnership with Micro-Tech Endoscopy.
Craig Davis
Craig Davis is the President and CEO of NovaScan, a Chicago-based clinical-stage oncology company building a low-cost, point-of-care platform that uses bioimpedance and machine learning to detect and stratify cancer in real time. A medtech executive and investor with more than two decades of experience, he has raised over $20 million for NovaScan, secured a CPRIT grant, and helped steer clinical trials in skin, lung, breast, GI and pancreatic cancers. Earlier in his career he helped shape companies including New Aera (acquired by Inogen), Merge Healthcare (IPO; later acquired by IBM), and OrthoScan, and was a partner at healthcare investment bank Healthios.