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Shreya Mehta
Shreya Mehta is the President and CEO of Zenflow, a South San Francisco medical device company she co-founded in 2014 out of the Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship. A biomedical engineer and former FDA reviewer, she spent a decade building the Zenflow Spring System, a minimally invasive, reversible implant that props open the urethra to relieve symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). She started as CTO before stepping into the CEO seat, closed a $24M Series C in November 2024, and helped guide the company to FDA approval.
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.
MJ Antonini
MJ Antonini is the co-founder and CEO of NeuroBionics, an MIT spinout building hair-thin, flexible bioelectronic fibers that thread through blood vessels to reach deep neural structures - delivering deep brain stimulation without opening the skull. A Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology graduate who trained in both medicine and engineering, he turned a decade of fiber research from Polina Anikeeva's MIT lab into a venture-backed company that raised an oversubscribed $10M seed round to push toward first-in-human trials.
Darryl Barnes
Darryl Barnes is a physician-turned-inventor who co-founded Sonex Health, an Eagan, Minnesota medtech company building ultrasound-guided devices that move carpal tunnel and trigger finger surgery out of the operating room and into the clinic office. A former Mayo Clinic sports medicine doctor, he co-invented the UltraGuideCTR device, holds numerous medical device patents, and helped raise more than $60 million to scale the company. He has served as both CEO and chief technology officer, and was named Medical Devices CEO of the Year for the Upper Midwest in 2018.
Prithipal Sethi
Dr. Prithipal S. Sethi is a board-certified urologist, founder and CEO of Golden State Urology, and Chief Medical Officer at Promaxo - the company pioneering in-office MRI technology for prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment. With over 25 years of clinical practice, 2,500+ enlarged prostate procedures performed, and a career rooted in bringing advanced imaging technology directly into the urologist's office, Sethi straddles the worlds of clinical medicine and medical device innovation. Trained at UC Berkeley, St. Louis University, and Medical College of Wisconsin, he built Golden State Urology from a single Stockton practice in 2004 into a multi-location Northern California institution, and now serves as a clinical voice for a technology that is reshaping how prostate cancer is caught and treated.