We thank our host and conference chairs — Brian Johnson, Mike Mahoney, Ashley McEvoy, John Rennert and Sonal Matai — for their leadership and dedication in helping plan the 2026 conference. We are deeply grateful for the contributions made by every member of our conference planning committees.
Steering Committee
Michael “Mike” Mahoney
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
President & CEO
Boston Scientific
Ashley McEvoy
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
President & CEO
Insulet
John Rennert
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Chairman
Zoll
Host & Local Committee
Brian Johnson
Chair, Host & Local Committee
President
MassMEDIC
Program Committee
Sonal Matai
Program Committee Chair
President, North America
Karl Storz
Thank you to our Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is comprised of a distinguished group of CEOs, executives and thought leaders representing the medtech ecosystem. Their collective expertise will shape a conference that addresses the most pressing challenges impacting the global medtech industry.
David Amor, Apple Inc.
John Babitt, Ernst & Young LLP
Jenny Barba, Features Capital
Brian Blaser, QuidelOrtho Corporation
Tracy Bury, Samsung
Ricardo Butta, Flex Medical
Jeff Chu, Features Capital
David Constantine, Juniper Biomedical (MTI finalist 2024)
Nicole DeKort, MedTech Canada
Joe DeVivo, Butterfly Network Inc.
Steve Dick, Jones Trading
Jeff Dilullo, Philips
Marissa Fayer, Deeplook Medical
Michelle Fox, Semler Scientific
Scott Garrett, Water Street Healthcare Partners
Helen Giza, Fresenius
Petra Gorombei, Vensana Capital Management
Mike Guerra, California Life Sciences
Brian Johnson, MassMEDIC
Tom Kapfer, RoundTable Healthcare Partners
Justin Klein, Vensana Capital Management
Tracy MacNeal, Materna Medical
Mike Mahoney, Boston Scientific – Conference Committee Co-Chair
Sonal Matai, Karl Storz
Ashley McEvoy, Insulet – Conference Committee Co-Chair
Essex Mitchell, Hologic, Inc.
Maureen Mulvihill Ph.D, Actuated Medical Inc.
Deepak Nath, Smith & Nephew
Namal Nawana, DePuy Synthes
Caroll Neubauer, Water Street Healthcare Partners
Marie O’Malley, PiSA USA
Bakul Patel, Google Health
Todd Pope, Revival Healthcare Capital
Jon Rennert, Zoll – Conference Committee Co-Chair
Randall Rutta, National Health Council
Aaron Sandoski, Norwich Ventures
Julien Sauvagnargues, Olympus Corporation of Americas
Kent Savage, PhotoPharmics, Inc.
Tim Scott, Biocom California
Martha Shadan, BrilliantStrings Therapeutics, Inc.
Upma Sharma, Ph.D., Arsenal Medical
Holly Sheffield, CooperSurgical, Inc.
Chris Simon, Haemonetics
Pam Traxel, American Cancer Society
Kwame Ulmer, Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health
Todd Usen, AdagioMedical Inc.
Cary Vance, Avita Medical
Venk Varadan, Nanowear, Inc.
Christina Wurster, Heart Rhythm Society
Nadim Yared, Encora Therapeutics
Darshana Zaveri, Catalyst Health Ventures
Thank you to our Program Committee
The Program Committee is comprised of industry professionals and AdvaMed content experts with the mission to assist in developing a top-quality and diverse educational program for The MedTech Conference.
Charolette (Charlie) Adams, Director, Global Market Access, Health Economics & Policy, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics
Nadine Afari, Research and Innovation Executive, Rady Childrens Health, University of California, Irvine and The Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics
Hortense Allison, Vice President Regulatory Affairs- Medical Devices, Bayer Radiology
Jan Beery, CCO/Managing Partner, Worlds View Solutions
Francois Bergeron, VP Corporate Development, MEDTEQ+
Pankit Bhalodia, Partner Life Sciences, West Monroe
Isabelle Billet, President, IBHC Advisors LLC
Robin Blankenbaker, Head of Quality Solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software
Margaret Boiano, Principal and Advisor for Euclid, Reimbursement Access Consulting, LLC and Euclid
Adam Borden, Americas Reimbursement & Policy Leader, W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Diane Bouis, Board Member, BioMEMS
Michael Branagan-Harris, CEO, HealthTech Strategies ltd
Chandra Branham, Senior Director, Payment & Care Delivery, Health Policy, Johnson & Johnson MedTech
Yann Cailler, Director RA&QA, CathVision
Mary Devlin Capizzi, Partner, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Candice Carpenter, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, The Boston Congress of Public Health
Arthi Chandran, DVP Health Economics and Reimbursement, Abbott
Anil Chauhan, Founder Director, International Contract Pharma Association
Alexandru Cherciu, MedTech Business Consultant, Nagarro
Lori Chmura, CEO, Nyra Medical
Sean Coombs, MedTech Sector Technical Director, PM Group
Marli Cruz, Doctor, Instituto Português de Oncologia – Porto
Sonali Dewan, Vice President of Regulatory & Clinical Affairs and Quality Assurance, InspireMD
Phil Englert, VP Medical Device Security, Health-ISAC
Andrew Fish, President & CEO, MDIC – Medical Device Innovation Consortium
Emily Folie, Sr Program Manager of Diversity in Clinical Trials, Medtronic
Joshua Freedman, Co-Founder & CEO, Airalux Medical, Inc.
Kenneth Fuh, IVDR Technical Manager, Region Americas, DNV
Jaimi Gaffe, Vice President, Regulatory Law, MedTech, Johnson & Johnson
Amos Gideon, Biomedical Engineer, Solweya Engineering
Juli Goldstein, Vice President, Government Affairs and Market Access, Digital Diagnostics
João Gomes, Medical Product Lead, Ada Health
Mandar Gori, Chief Business Officer, Vivance Inc.
Pujitha Gourabathini, Quality Assurance Manager, Becton, Dickinson and Company
Manan Hathi, Global Head of Digital Health Regulatory Policy, Stryker
Eric Heinz, Managing Partner, Heinz Ventures, LLC
Veasna Heng, Principle Software Architect, CONMED
Randy Horton, Chief Solutions Officer, Orthogonal
Steffen Hovard, Executive Board Chair, Minze Health
Aaron Hunter, Senior Director, Federal Government Affairs & Policy, Siemens Healthineers
Korinne Jew, Sr. Director Clinical Research and Medical Science, Medtronic
Stephen Kalinsky, Co-Founder & CTO, Augment Health, Inc.
Blythe Karow, CEO, Tha Karow Advisory Group
Kristin King-Jankiewicz, Head of Group Management, Boston Harbor Angels
Sushant Kulkarni, Senior QA Manager, Tessera Therapeutics
Elizabeth Lewis, Physician Founder, MedVest Hub
Clara MacKinnon-Cabral, Program Manager, INOVAIT
Maulik Majmudar, Chief Medical Officer, Biofourmis
Sonal Matai, President, North America, Karl Storz – Program Committee Chair
Monika McDole-Russell, Sr. Director, Global Regulatory Intelligence, Intuitive Surgical
Linda McQuade, President, Owner, CAHIR Solutions
Jenny McVey, President, AKW-Advisors
Jared Meyers, CEO / Co-Founder, Augment Health, Inc.
Rajesh Misra, Partner, Life Sciences Operations Advisory, KPMG LLP
Meher Muttanapalli, Senior Manager – SW QE & CoE, Intuitive Surgical
Ravi Nabar, CEO, Quaizen
Ken Nelson, Investor & Board Member, Nelson Jennings Ventures
Vlad Neste, Head of US Life Sciences and Healthcare, Nagarro
Michael Nilo, President, Nilo Medical Consulting Group
Lee-Ann Norman, Founder/Managing Partner, LADAN Group, LLC
Amy Palatiello, Sr Director, Health Policy and Reimbursement, Medtronic
Aalap Patel, Engineering Manager, Medtronic
Sandra Perreand, Director Regulatory Strategy and State Trade Compliance, bioMérieux
Maria Restrepo, Director, Medtronic
Christian Sauvageau, CEO, Reveal Life Science
Danielle Scelfo, SVP, Market Access and Government Affairs, Lucid Diagnostics
David Schull, President, Russo Partners, LLC
Maureen Shaffer, CEO, Mingletoe
Sandeep Shenoy Karanchery Sundaresan, IT Manager, Viant Medical
Manasi Shukla, Founder, Safrela Consulting
Abhinavdutt Singh, Staff Software Quality Engineer, iRhythm Technologies
Sameer Singla, Vice President, Convatec
Alexandra Smythe, Quality, Regulatory, and Legal Affairs Director, IDE Group
Liz Spurgin, Head, Reimbursement & Policy, GE HealthCare
Shreya Sridhar, Principal Systems Engineer & Technical Lead, Medtronic Inc.
Tiea Theurer, Consultant, Quarem Consulting
Sarah Thibault-Sennett, Sr. Manager, Market Access, Hologic
Nataly Trejos, Regulatory Policy LATAM Associate Director, Johnson & Johnson
Arjun Urs, Staff Software Engineer, Intuitive Surgical
Cary Vance, CEO, Avita Medical
April Veoukas, Director Regulatory, Abbott
Manuel Villarreal, MD, MBA, MHA, MSPE, BCM
Bodo Wiegand, VP, Virdx
Grzegorz Zapotoczny, Medical Device Clinical Trials Unit Director – Research Professor, Consortium for Technology Innovation in Pediatrics – Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Jay Zhu, Partner, EY