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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.
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.