Laurent Grandidier

Xeltis AG develops medical devices to transform standards of care in heart valve replacement and vascular surgery. It develops fully bio absorbable synthetic heart valves and vascular grafts intended to enable for the first time the spontaneous growth of natural, healthy valves and vessels. Its medical device platform comprises bioabsorbable heart valves and blood vessels, designed to enable Endogenous Tissue Restoration (ETR), the natural restoration of the complex body part they replace upon implantation. The company was founded by Martijn Cox, Laurent Grandidier and Simon P. Hoerstrup in 2006 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Guidant Corp. manufactures cardiovascular therapeutic devices. The company also provides cardiac and peripheral vascular repair surgical systems. It operates in Europe and Japan. Guidant was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Hudson Respiratory Care, Inc. manufactures disposable respiratory care and anesthesia products. Its products include endotracheal tubes, anesthesia breathing circuits, masks, hygroscopic condenser humidifiers, bacteria, viral filters and gas sampling. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Endosense SA operated as a medical technology company, which focused on reproducibility of catheter ablation for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. The firm's flagship product was TactiCath Quartz that helped physicians to measure contact force during the catheter ablation procedure. The company was founded by Vitali Verin, Giovanni Leo, and Nicolas Aeby in 2003 and was headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.