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🎧 Episode 90 – How does a CXO contribute to MedTech success with Skender Daerti, CEO, The Clinician Exchange

Do you know what a CXO is?  Do you know how a CXO can contribute to a company’s prelaunch or commercial launch success?  By the end of this podcast you will have answers to both of those questions.  Today’s episode is about an important new kind of service organization to MedTech and HCPs.  It is called a CXO.

🎧 422: Verge HealthTech Fund with Joseph Mocanu

Joseph Mocanu is Co-founder and Managing Director of Verge HealthTech Fund, which invests globally in seed-stage healthcare technology startups relevant to emerging Asia that focus on disease prevention and management, digital therapies, and health system efficiency. Chad talks with Joseph about the healthcare landscape in different places of the world, funding criteria for companies, and how the pandemic has changed prospects for the fund and the market in general.

🎧 250 – What is the next frontier in digital health? Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, Coviu

Without a doubt, telehealth adoption has boomed since the pandemic but in what circumstances is it truly appropriate and should all clinicians continue to use it? Plus, does telehealth even have a true future in healthcare? In this episode, Pete and his Silvia explore the answers to these questions. You will also hear about the growth of the world’s leading, which is one of the first telehealth companies in Australia and the importance of collaborations and integrations in telehealth.

🎧 Reinventing Workforce Health Management in the MedTech SaaS Space with Benjamin Crevant #174

Benjamin Crevant is the Co-Founder and CEO of MyC MedTech, a compliant tool for companies to manage health data, medical check-ups and remote medical sites, worldwide. They offer predictive analysis and insights relevant to the activity and their employees health. After more than 8 years working around the globe gaining managing and entrepreneurship skills, Ben went back to Europe where he and his co-founder Laurent reinvented how companies can manage their team resilience and bring healthcare to workers and companies.

🎧 UVC: Joseph Mocanu from Verge HealthTech Fund on interesting innovations in healthcare tech, 3 strategies that startups can use to ace fundraising and

Understanding VC is a deep dive on how Venture Capitalists work. In this episode, I speak with Joseph Mocanu, founding partner of the Verge HealthTech Fund, a VC fund focusing on seed stage healthcare tech companies relevant to emerging markets. This conversation kicks off with Joseph talking about his reasons for building a VC fund specializing in healthcare.

🎧 Creating Efficiencies in the Implantable Medical Device Space

One implication of the current pandemic is that many elective surgeries were delayed or postponed amidst global uncertainty.  As the healthcare ecosystem continues to adjust to these uncertainties and evolve, it’s important to examine existing and emerging technologies that are helping to create efficiencies within the industry.

🎧 Let’s Talk Medtech: Kevin Sayer on Why all eyes are on Dexcom

It’s no secret that Dexcom is on the rise. From commercials during the Super Bowl, to blockbuster products on the horizon, the company is reaching a new height of popularity in the continuous glucose monitoring space. Kevin Sayer, Dexcom CEO, talks about the company’s new position the space and all the hype surrounding the upcoming G7 CGM sensor. He also gives his thoughts on where CGM technology is headed in this incredible, can’t miss conversation.

🎧 Accelerating Medtech’s time to market with a modern regulatory strategy with James Gianoutsos, Founder of RimSys

Regulatory landscape is growing increasingly complex with new European Union Medical Device Regulations and In Vitro Diagnostic Regulations. In fact, research from MedTech Europe predicts that as many as 76% of products will be withdrawn from the market as a result and the complexity isn’t limited to just our friends in Europe.

🎧 37. Robin Weiner on Telecoms + Telehealth

 Andy & John interview Robin Weiner, Founder and President of Get Real Health, about her company’s involvement with helping telecom companies provide telehealth services. Also, the guys talk about recent trips to Hawaii and the telecom observations from those trips. 

🎧 104: Medical Device Certification vs Wellness Device

Bryon Bhagwandin is a 20-year medical device entrepreneur with over a half dozen products in the market. He has won a number of awards, including the Top100 in R&D Magazine. He also has a PhD from the University of Washington in Medical Devices and Hardware. Today Bryon is going to share some valuable knowledge for hardware startups, inventors, and small manufacturers on the difference between a medical device and a wellness device, and if going the medical device route, what are the steps and best practices to get certified.

🎧 The Still Point: The Simplicity of Spiritual Enlightenment, with Kevin Krenitsky M.D.

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Kevin Krenitsky M.D. about his book, The Still Point: The Simplicity of Spiritual Enlightenment. See the video here: Kevin Krenitsky M.D. ( is an experienced executive with a demonstrated record of success working in the biotechnology and diagnostics and medical device industry.

🎧 High Tech on the Low ft. Dr. Ziv Yekutieli – Neuroscience Decentralized

Often it is the path we create for ourselves that leads us unexpectedly to some of our biggest accomplishments. Before founding Mon4t, Dr. Ziv Yekutieli, spent many years connecting between neurology and technology, dabbling in music, ex-vivo neural networks, brain signals from the epileptic patient and a PC-based model of the brain.

🎧 How a digital-first approach can help future-proof your allied healthcare practice

Rochelle Mutton is a senior Occupational Therapist and the Founder of Motivate Kids, a digital-first OT healthcare service provider which works with kids in Australia’s disability sector. Plus, Tim Wilson, Co-founder and Director of Snapforms is back to share his insight as a health-tech software provider.

🎧 Dr Joseph Mocanu, PhD – Investing In Novel Health Tech In Emerging Markets – Verge HealthTech Fund

Dr. Joseph D. Mocanu, Ph.D. ( is the Managing Partner of the Verge HealthTech Fund, focusing on early stage healthcare technology companies relevant to emerging markets. Dr. Mocanu started his career as a scientist, developing new cancer therapies during his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto.

🎧 86. David Robbins, CEO of DR PR

David Robbins is President and Founder of DR | PR Consulting based in New York City, where he has worked with a wide range of clients across healthcare, sports and higher education, including in-house PR roles at the Anti-Defamation League, Columbia University and Northwell Health. He started his firm during the height of the pandemic in 2020 – wow.

🎧 WBSP267: Grow Your Business by Learning Through B2B Digital eCommerce Journey of a Global Medical Device Manufacturer w/ Colin Cronin

Scaling eCommerce operations for a global business is hard. You have multiple challenges, such as different product mixes for different markets. You might also have completely different channels and customer journeys for each channel. But if you are a medical device business, the complexity of your operations will be at a different level.

🎧 EP#56 Mayank Banerjee – Building Even Healthcare, choosing the right co-founders and understanding the investor perspective when fundraising as a fo

In this episode, Mayank Banerjee (Co-Founder & CEO, Even Healthcare), joins our host Digjay, to talk about his path leading up to Even, choosing the right co-founders, the problem statement that Even is solving for, challenges faced in the o to 1 journey, attracting quality talent at the earliest stages of a startup, straddling between the short term & long term vision, the importance of understanding the VC perspective when fundraising as a founder and having a thesis about the kind of investors you’d like to have on your cap table.

🎧 Turning Over A New Wondaleaf

Unfortunately, there are many unnecessarily gendered products out there. From razors to toys to even pens, it seems like anything can be strangely stuck to this outdated notion. So what’s the issue? Do products really need to be designed and marketed in this way? How about the products that we assume are only for one side of the customer demographic – could there be a better alternative.

🎧 Health & Wellbeing Consultant to the Government Fran Dean-Bishop

Fran Dean-Bishop believes the key to developing and maintaining a great workforce strategy is prioritizing the health and wellbeing of those within your company. She helps high growth organizations create sustainable, healthy workplaces and spaces to foster well being, resilience and increased productivity within their employees.

🎧 The evolving NHS: How can Pharma and Medtech support the NHS in 2022? – NHS Insights Panel Discussion

Pharma and Medtech professionals put questions to our panel of NHS associates as we reflected on the operational, structural, and clinical challenges the NHS has faced in 2021 and how Pharma and Medtech can best support the NHS in 2022. We were joined by some of Mtech Access’s closest and most insightful friends: – David Thorne (Director, Mtech Access and Well Up North PCN) our Policy expert – Patrick McGinley (Head of Costing and Service Line Reporting, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust) our Hospitals and Finance expert – Liz Cross (Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Attenborough Surgery,

🎧 TBI sees ‘remote care’ as a larger vision for telemedicine and UCaaS services for healthcare sector, Podcast

“Unfortunately, healthcare lagged behind in this whole ‘as a service’ kind of movement within in our economy,” says Mark McNeil, Strategic Healthcare Program Manager for TBI. While healthcare often uses some of the most advanced technologies to deliver actual medical care, the way in which the industry has utilized communications has often lagged other comparable industries, especially when it comes to managed services.

🎧 Cellular Regeneration and Shockwave Therapy- An Interview with Dr. Matthew DiDuro

We discuss:  The “Tip of the Day” which includes the benefits of Mediterranean herbs like Basil and Summer Savory on arterial health [9:15];  Dr. DiDuro’s personal experience with a sports injury that led him into the field of chiropractic care and pain management [14:30]; That pain comes from areas of poor circulation, areas of tissue damage, and inflammation, and how Dr.

🎧 Building Out the Tinder of Healthcare – Interview With Amnon Bar-lev

In this episode of Who Would Have Thought, we welcome Amnon Bar-Lev, a passionate healthcare advocate and the co-founder and CEO of Alike.Health, a healthcare startup harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing, and big data to empower patients, change healthcare, and improve lives.

🎧 Internal Employer Branding and Employee Engagement

This episode of the Vantage HR Influencers podcast is dedicated to HR directors and HR managers who wish to understand the relevance of employer branding and is likely to explain why it makes sense to own a great internal employer branding strategy. Our guest speaker today is Kankana Barua, the CHRO at Healthium Medtech.

🎧 Ep809: Hila Goldman-Aslan | CEO & Co-Founder, DiA Imaging Analysis

Hila holds a dual bachelor’s degree in Law (LLB) and Business Administration (BBA), along with a Master of Law (LLM) from Tel Aviv University specializing in Commercial Law. After years of leading high-tech companies focused on medtech, Hila founded DiA Imaging Analysis. She has led the company from the idea through proof of concept, product development, building a team, regulation, raising capital, and validation to commercial partnerships with leading vendors, such as GE Healthcare, Philips, and IBM. 

🎧 The Digital Transformation of Healthcare

Paddy Padmanabhan is the Founder and CEO of Damo Consulting Inc., a digital transformation and growth advisory firm focused on the healthcare sector. For over 20 years, Paddy has had a distinguished career in leadership roles working extensively as a technology strategist and trusted advisor to C-suite executives in large health systems and digital health firms.

🎧 Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting and author, discusses the future of technology in healthcare

Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting, has spent 20 years educating healthcare CIOs about digital transformation and writing about healthcare innovation. Damo helps organizations turn new technology into better patient outcomes in areas like telemedicine, electronic health records, and patient engagement platforms.

🎧 XL20: JOSEPH MOCANU – Early Stage VC & Healthtech Investor

When you invest in healthtech, how do you choose what to invest in? You can invest in any potentially life changing treatment from a cure to Alzheimers to Cancer diagnostics. In this episode of the XL Podcast, I’m joined by Early Stage VC Fund founder Joseph Mocanu on his journey as a healthtech investor and what the big challenges in global healthcare are today. We discuss the Bill Gates Foundation, Medical Devices, Big Pharma, AIDS, Cancer Diagnostics, Chemotheraphy, Gene Theraphy, the Microbiome, epidemiology, fasting, ethics and commercialization of healthtech.

🎧 How‌ ‌Skullcandy‌ ‌Creates‌ ‌A‌ ‌Customer-Focused‌ ‌Marketing‌ ‌Strategy‌

Just like every company is unique, so are its customers.  Lifestyle and tech company Skullcandy’s sweet spot is young adventurers who love great music and extreme activities like skating and snowboarding. With that target market, a run-of-the-mill marketing approach won’t land. Skullcandy has created an impressive (and growing) company with its outstanding products and customer-focused marketing strategy.

🎧 Podcast #66 – Healthtech with Richard Chu

We all want to live longer and healthier lives, so it’s no surprise that healthcare technology is a major area of research and innovation. Medtech and biotech are key investment themes in the Telescope Investing model portfolio, and in our own personal portfolios. This week we had the pleasure of connecting with healthtech expert investor Richard Chu (@richard_chu97).

🎧 E106: Roy Rosin – Matching Innovators’ Passion to Customer Problems

Ben & Jay welcome a multi-industry innovation hall of famer, Roy Rosin, Chief Innovation Officer at UPenn Health System.  Roy leads The Center for Health Care Innovation, which facilitates the rapid, disciplined development, testing, and implementation of new strategies to reimagine health care delivery for dramatically better patient outcomes, value, and experience.