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Mary Beth Moynihan Built a Career by Working Backward
For nearly three decades at Boston Scientific, Mary Beth Moynihan has treated a career less like a ladder than a design problem: name the destination, map the missing experiences and make the next move count.
Irina Erenburg
Irina Erenburg is the founder, president and CEO of AVAVA, a Waltham, Massachusetts medical aesthetics company behind MIRIA, a new class of dermatology laser built on the company's proprietary Focal Point Technology. A biomedical scientist turned serial entrepreneur, she earned a PhD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and got her start negotiating high-value deals inside Boston's largest hospital network, where she helped shepherd startups including Zeltiq Aesthetics. She has co-founded R2 Dermatology and Soltego and, in 2024, raised $35 million to commercialize AVAVA's technology for treating skin of every tone.
Manisha Shah-Bugaj
Manisha Shah-Bugaj is the CEO of Activ Surgical, a Boston-based medical technology company building hardware-agnostic surgical software and its ActivSight Intelligent Light imaging module. A medtech executive with more than two decades of experience, she previously built Olympus's U.S. gynecology business from the ground up, rising to General Manager and Global Vice President, before joining Activ Surgical as COO in January 2022 and becoming CEO that December.