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Anthony Viscogliosi Has Spent 40 Years Turning Research Into Companies
Before Anthony Viscogliosi built medical-device companies, he built an information advantage. Four decades later, the analyst’s habit still shapes how he and his brothers buy, operate and sometimes buy back businesses.
Joe Loy
Joe Loy is the President and CEO of Zetagen Therapeutics, a Syracuse, New York clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing small-molecule therapies to treat metastatic cancer in bone and soft tissue while regenerating healthy bone. A serial entrepreneur with several successful exits, Loy has spent his career building teams around first-to-market medical technologies at companies including US Surgical, Pfizer/Leibinger, NuVasive, and Stryker. Since taking the helm in January 2019, he has guided Zetagen through two FDA Breakthrough Device Designations, multiple financing rounds, and the launch of Phase 2a clinical trials for its lead candidate ZetaMet.
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.
Benjamin Arnold
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.
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.
Peter Noymer
Peter Noymer is the Executive Chairman and CEO of ForCast Orthopedics, a Denver-based development-stage company building a wearable system that pumps antibiotics straight into infected artificial joints. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer with more than two decades turning lab concepts into shipped pharmaceutical and device products, he has previously run or steered ophthalmology, cardiopulmonary and digital-health ventures, several of which were acquired by Novartis, United Therapeutics and Grupo Ferrer. At ForCast he has landed FDA Orphan Drug and Qualified Infectious Disease Product designations, a Series A led by a renowned orthopedic surgeon, and a 2026 MedTech Innovator slot.