MedTech Marketing Advisory Board

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Marketing in the digital era is not just a function in your organization; it is a way of doing business that requires a multi-disciplinary team of experts all focused on delivering actionable solutions to your customers, on the right platform, at the right time and most importantly with the right story.

Armed with such a symbiotic team, MedTech Momentum is ideally Positioned to help you drive growth and value creation.

Andy Rock is an accomplished MedTech entrepreneur, inventor, senior executive, investor, public speaker, and advisor to management teams and BODs.

Known as one of the original co-founders of renowned spinal technology company K2M (i.e., K2M Group Holdings, Inc.), acquired by Stryker for $1.4B in 2018, he spent the last 3 decades developing a unique set technological and analytical skills in the medical space. His US and International experience allow him to identify opportunities across multiple healthcare sectors and help turn them into highly valuable organizations.

In 2003, Andy co-founded NeuroSpine Ventures to help early stage MedTech companies develop and execute successful growth and value creation strategies, leading to successful liquidity events. Since inception NeuroSpine Ventures has been able to invest in 9 startups and achieving 6 exits with ROIs ranging from 85% to 3,200%.

His broad areas of expertise are clearly a competitive advantage that MedTech Momentum clients can tap into for better decision making.

Francisco Javier Perez, CFA, joins the MedTech Momentum Advisory Board with years of extensive experience in health care investment banking, investment management, and financial services. He currently serves as the managing director and chief operating officer for the investment bank Commenda, Inc. as well as the principal for Commenda Securities, LLC. In addition to his roles at Commenda, Javier is a portfolio specialist at Skyview Investment Advisors, where he is actively involved in alternative and venture investments as well as managing investment portfolios on behalf of health care clients.

Javier’s passion is in helping build and fund businesses and teams in the health care innovation space, with the goal of making sure much-needed innovations make it to patients successfully. This is precisely what most MedTech Momentum clients are looking for.

As founder and president of Hyperjax Biomedical Technologies, a medical device engineering firm, Leonel Dominguez comes to the MedTech Momentum Advisory Board with 35 years of technical leadership experience in commercial product development engineering, intellectual property, quality, and regulatory affairs, with medical device organizations such as Medtronic-Xomed, Smith & Nephew and Scient'x USA.  He has assisted over 50 client companies design, and commercially launch hundreds of medical products in use today.

Over the course of his career, he has developed the technical, analytical, and managerial skills to help companies take medical devices from simple napkin designs to full commercialization. The range of medical technologies Leonel has been involved covers multiple specialties such as orthopedics, spine, trauma, head and neck, extremity, robotic-assisted and micro-endoscopic surgery.

As the market is evolving, Leonel has also developed a unique expertise in technological matters related to rapid prototyping, 3-D printing, and manufacturing. Leonel’s technical expertise represents of valuable source of knowledge that MedTech Momentum’s clients can leverage to their benefit.

Based in France, Mathieu Charleux possesses close over 2 decades of experience developing MedTech organizations in Europe and around the world. He specializes in helping MedTech Companies of all sizes grow profitably internationally. Mathieu provides MedTech companies with actionable insights, guidance, and tools that enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on all affairs relating to business development, international regulatory compliance, and operations.

Mathieu is a strategic thinker and entrepreneur (co-founder of MD101, MDxp, Hirondelle Medical, EMT), who also acts as a key advisor to multiple medical device companies around the world. His track record in building value for medical device start-ups and mid-size companies in an international environment is a major asset available to MedTech Momentum’s clients.