The Med-Tech Talent Lab

I was joined by Mr. Michael Katz, Director of Quality for Viz.ai Michael has a Bachelors of Science in Human Biology from Boise State and Masters Degree in Regulatory Science from John Hopkins. His career is off to an impressive start having joined the Med-Tech industry in 2016 as a Regulatory Affairs Analyst. In 2018 he had the opportunity to make his way into the exploding Software as a Medical...

I was joined by Mr. Ed Nathanson, Vice President of Talent and Talent Branding at EQRx. Over the last 30 plus years Ed has built a storied career holding multiple different types of roles within recruiting, human resources, talent acquisition and the talent branding space. From 2014 until 2020 he built an organization called Red Pill Talent which as a company had the singular mission to help compa...

I was joined by Susan Andrews, Recruiting Manager for a company called Penumbra. Susan is a recruitment enthusiast and candidate experience Manager with over 15 plus years of full life cycle recruiting experience across a variety of disciplines and environments including agency, corporate and professional services firms throughout the United States. She's got relevant experience as it relates to A...

I was joined by Dave Nazzaro, the Sr Director of Hardware Engineering and Advanced Technologies at Insulet Corporation. Dave holds his Bachelor’s of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and for the last 17 years he has progressively risen through the ranks having worked for a variety of organizations including Fluident, Apple and of course Insulet...

I was joined by Mr. David Pudwill, a Regulatory Affairs expert for both medical devices as well as combination products. David holds a Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering and his Masters in Mechanical Engineering. David actually spent 9 years of his career working directly for the FDA as a lead medical device reviewer. After that he spent several years with a med-tech organization called C...

I was joined by Ms. Arvita Tripati, the Head of Quality, Regulatory Affairs and Privacy for a company called Luminostics (Clip Health). Arvita has built a storied career over the last 13 plus years in Regulatory, Quality and Compliance. She’s spent time with recognizable organizations like Coopervision, Accurate, Alivecor and a variety of other companies. Arvita holds her Bachelor’s of Science foc...

Over the course 14+ years, Mr. Ankur Kaushal has worked in Regulatory Affairs for a variety of the "big players" in the Med-Tech industry like Abbott, Roche, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic . He has gained a variety of experience across class II and III medical devices, invitro-diagnostics and digital therapeutics, and he holds his Bachelors Degree in Engineering and Masters Degree in Biomedical...

Joining me for this episode was Mr. Nick Zweig, the Associate Director of Talent Acquisition at Beta Bionics based on Concord, MA. Nick eats and breathes Talent Acquisition. It's by no means just a job for him. He is so passionate and enthusiastic about recruitment and helping companies build high performing teams. Nick has been in recruitment, both on the 3rd party search side as well as being th...

Mr. Lee Lisemby, the Vice President at Revlar Labs, joins me to discuss his own personal and professional journey overcoming may challenges that would have caused many others to simply throw in the towel and give up. Growing up Lee faced three challenges, a speech impediment, ADHD, and Dislexia. Rather than getting down on himself, like so many others unfortunately would, he faced his challenges h...

It was a pleasure to host this conversation with Dina Justice, the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Terumo Medical. Dina is the epitome of a strong woman in the workforce, but more specifically within the Life Sciences community. During this episode we discuss some of the trials and tribulations Dina endured and overcame both as a single mother and as a female leader who has continued to pr...

Marcelo Trevnio, the VP of Regulatory & Quality at Agendia has built a storied career for himself. He earned his Bachelors Degree in Industrial & Systems Engineer and a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Marcelo also has his Certification in Regulatory Affairs Management and he is a Master Medical Device Auditor through Exemplar Global and is also known as a Biomedical Auditor through ASQ....

Dr Leon Eisen joins us on the very first episode of the Med-Tech Talent Lab to discuss the common pitfalls and mistakes Founders and leaders of start-ups often make. Dr Eisen is the Founder and CEO of Oxitone Medical. Leon has a storied background having successfully launched several Israeli start-ups and is the gentleman who invented the first Wrist Sensor Pulse Oximetry monitor. At his current o...