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Leadership

Murray Penner, MD, FRCSC

Founder & Chairman of the Board

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia

  • 6 yrs as Director of the UBC Adult Foot & Ankle Reconstruction Fellowship

  • Head, Regional Department of Orthopaedics, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority & Providence Health Care

  • Head, Department of Orthopaedics, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC

  • Co-Founder & Medical Director, Footbridge Centre for Integrated Orthopaedic Care, Vancouver, BC

  • Founder & President, MJP Consulting Inc.

 

Prominent Products DevelopeD

  • TrueAim Lisfranc and Lapidus System – Innovative Midfoot Solutions & Strategic

  • INFINITY™ and INFINITY™ with ADAPTIS™ Total Ankle Replacement System – Strategic/Wright Medical

  • INBONE 2™ Total Ankle Replacement System – Strategic/Wright Medical

  • INVISION™ Revision Total Ankle Replacement System – Strategic/Wright Medical

  • ORTHOLOC™ Ankle Fracture Plating System – Strategic/Wright Medical

  • GRAVITY™ SYNCHFIX™ Syndesmosis Fixation Device – Strategic/Wright Medical

  • CoLink® Bone Graft Harvester – In2Bones

Areas of Expertise

  • 45 yrs of medical device industry experience, development & commercialization 10+ product families, encompassing 100+ products

  • 22 yrs working for large strategic companies developing and commercializing products 

  • 23 yrs acting as a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded ten companies mostly with physician KOL’s in the health care space

  • Led as CEO, responsible for company formation, capitalization, product development, subsequent commercialization, followed by successfully executed exit strategies

 

Prominent Products Developed

  • IMPRA/CR Bard -- FLUENCY --  fully encapsulated ePTFE endovascular stent grafts

  • IMPRA/CR Bard -- CARBOFLO – ePTFE arteriovenous vascular grafts for hemodialysis access

  • IMPRA/CR Bard -- CARBOFLO – ePTFE vascular grafts for peripheral arterial bypass

  • IMPRA/CR Bard -- DISTAFLO – ePTFE cuffed arterial bypass vascular graft

  • IMPRA/CR Bard -- DYNAFLO – ePTFE above-knee vascular bypass graft

  • CardioSpectra/Volcano -- coronary and peripheral artery OCT imaging system

  • Prytime -- ER- REBOA balloon catheter to temporarily occlude large vessels in support of hemorrhage control

  • BiO2 Medical/Mermaid --ANGEL Catheter -- Nitinol IVC filter permanently attached to a central venous access catheter providing temporary prophylactic PE protection

Christopher Banas

Founder, President, and CEO

Founder & Chief Medical Officer

Gregory Berlet, MD, FRCSC, FAOA, FAAOS

Areas of Expertise

  • Dual fellowship trained (foot and ankle and sports medicine) orthopedic surgeon 

  • Clinical assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, Ohio State University

  • Former chief of Foot and Ankle Ohio State University

  • Former fellowship director OFAC MD/DO fellowship

  • Chairman annual meetings AOFAS 2012 – 2013

  • Chairman Education committee AOFAS 2009 – 2011

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Prominent Products Developed

  • Design surgeon with > $150,000,000 (USD worldwide) commercial orthopedic implants sold

  • TrueAim Lisfranc and Lapidus System

  • INBONE II total ankle replacement

  • INFINITY total ankle replacement

  • INVISION revision total ankle replacement

  • Adaptis total ankle replacement system

  • Ortholoc 1 and Ortholoc II foot and ankle system

  • GRAVITY™ SYNCHFIX™ Syndesmosis Fixation Device – Strategic/Wright Medical

  • Valor intramedullary nail system

  • Biofoam spacer system

  • G-force anchor system

  • Jones fracture system

  • Sonic soft tissue fixation system

  • Zimmer Biomet - Headless compression twist off fixation system (HCTO)

  • In2Bone - CoLink® Bone Graft Harvester – In2Bones

  • Ossio - Cannulated nail system

  • Artelon - FLEXBAND Solo, Multi, and TWIST

Areas of Expertise

  • Chief of Foot and Ankle Surgery- Coordinated Health/ Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (2006-2021)

  • Foot and Ankle Fellowship Director (2010-2024)

  • Professor of Surgery- The Geisinger Commonwealth Medical College (2015-2024)

  • President, Degenerative Diseases- Celularity Inc.  (NASDAQ:CELU) (2019-present)

  • Founder, Venel Holdings (2007-present)

  • Plazmology4, Board Member (2006-present)

  • Founder/Chief Executive Officer- Edge Orthopeadics Inc.  Acquired by Orthofix NA.  2014

  • 39 Issued Patents- Medical Device, Biomaterial, Cell Migration Focus

  • 100+ peer reviewed publications

  • 4 Textbook chapters

 

Prominent Products Developed

  • TrueAim LisFranc and Lapidus Systems- Strategic

  • CoLink Bone Graft Harvester- In2Bones

  • Alloderm/GraftJacket Acellular Dermal Matrix-LifeCell and Wright Medical Technologies

  • Edge Orthopaedic Forefoot, Hindfoot, and Ankle Platforms

  • Quantum Total Ankle Replacement- In2Bones

  • TriWay Hindfoot and Ankle Fusion Nail- In2Bones

  • ICON Nailing System- Orthofix USA

  • Full list available upon request

Stephen Brigido, DPM, FACFAS

Founder & Chief Innovation Officer

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