Founded in 2017, Activ Surgical is focused on providing global access to best-in-class surgery, regardless of location...with the ultimate goal of eliminating unintended surgical complications, improving patient outcomes and providing savings to healthcare systems.
Activ Surgical is building hardware-agnostic surgical software that allows minimally invasive surgical systems (laparoscopes, arthroscopes and robots) to autonomously collaborate with surgeons. The first product augments surgical vision equipment in real-time in order to provide critical information to surgeons not available today.
Leadership TEAM:
TODD USEN
CEO
Accomplished and seasoned leader with more than 25 years of medical device and healthcare experience. Proven track record of leading, developing and executing on commercialization strategies and driving market development initiatives to deliver profitable growth. Previously was the President of the Medical Systems Group at Olympus, President of Orthopedics at Smith & Nephew, and Vice President at Boston Scientific.
DR. PETER KIM
Co-Founder &
Chief Science Officer
World-renowned surgeon and medical technologist. Dr. Kim is the inventor of Activ Surgical’s technology; having developed it over seven years with over $13m in non-dilutive grant funding while leading the Shaikh Zayed Institute at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C.
Sub Datta
COO
Two-time entrepreneur and
15+ years proven track record of delivering transformational growth in medical devices and digital health. Sub has held C-suite positions in
2 tech startups including CEO, CompanionMx and CBO at Soft Robotics. Previously held multiple senior leadership roles at Smith & Nephew, as well as EMD Serono. Sub has been awarded multiple innovation awards throughout
his career and holds 3 issued and
2 pending patents.
TOM CALEF
CTO
Highly accomplished medical roboticist and seasoned leader of engineering teams that delivered breakthrough innovation in surgical robotics. Previously was the Director of Advanced Robotics at Medrobotics, where he led the development and release of the first flexible surgical robotics platform, grew the engineering team from two to fifty people, and took numerous surgical robotics products through 510k clearance.
Jill Binney
VP, Sales & Marketing
Highly accomplished and proven commercial leader with nearly two decades of medical device and healthcare experience. Experience building go-to market launch plans for disruptive technologies and developing customer-focused strategies to build brands and grow market share. Strong track record of building and scaling high performing sales teams. Previously served as the Area Vice President for the ENT and Video Microscope Business Units at Olympus.
Arthur Leach
VP, Operations
Innovative professional with a diverse background and more than 25 years of global Operations experience focused on manufacturing, sourcing, distribution, service, quality and continuous improvement in the medical device and life sciences industries. Previously held Vice President roles in Operations and Quality at Insulet, and leadership roles in Manufacturing and Engineering at Covidien/Medtronic.
MICHAEL RUEHLMAN
GM & VP
Three-time entrepreneur and finance and technology executive with a track record managing high-performing teams and growing companies from concept stage through exit. Most recently was the co-founder and President of Sunlight Financial, where he was responsible for scaling operations to a team of 50+, and raising over $100M in equity.
Kelly Pettis
Director, Employee Engagement & Professional Education
Experienced business leader with deep proficiency in Human Resources, Professional Education, Digital Media and Diversity & Inclusion Strategies. An entrepreneur at heart, she joined Activ Surgical after serving in key employee- and customer-focused roles at Olympus, most recently serving as Media Manager, Professional Education. In addition, she was an Adjunct Professor at Penn State University (Reading, PA) and Northampton Area Community College (Bethlehem, PA) for both Public Speaking and Communication courses.
Dr. Peter Kim
Activ Surgical
David Wells
Water Street Capital
Emily Casey
DNS Capital
Ashok Krishnamurthi
GPV
Todd Usen
Activ Surgical
ADVISORY BOARD:
Vipul Patel, MD
Medical Director
Global Robotics Institute at Advent Health Celebration
Medical Director
Advent Health Cancer Institute Urologic Oncology Program
Steven Schwaitzberg, MD
Professor and Chairman - Department of Surgery.
University at Buffalo
Adrian Park, MD
Chairman of the Department of Surgery
Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, MD
Professor of Surgery
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
John Galeotti, PhD
Director of the Biomedical Image Guidance Laboratory
CMU
Uma Duvvuri, MD, PhD
Director of Robotic Head & Neck Surgery. Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology.
UPMC
Lukas Biewald
Artificial Intelligence Expert
Founder Figure Eight
Erik Wilson, MD
Medical Director of
Bariatric Surgery
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center
Professor in the
Department of Surgery
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Director
Minimally Invasive Surgeons of Texas (MIST)
Investors:
* Azad Shademan, Ryan S. Decker, Justin D. Opfermann, Simon Leonard, Axel Krieger, Peter C. W. Kim: T Supervised autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery. Science Translational Medicine Vol. 8, Issue 337
Autonomous Robot Surgeon Bests Humans in World First
Outperformed human surgeons
Autonomous Robotic Surgery Takes a Step Forward
Demonstrated the ability to conduct autonomous (supervised)
soft tissue surgery with the robotic device
BOARD of directors:
Advanced
Computer Vision
Autonomous Robotics/Software/
Machine Guided Surgery
Artificial Intelligence
SOLUTION:
ActivSight (the company’s first planned commercial launch in fall 2020) works dynamically and seamlessly with any installed visualization system to provide real time intra-operative visual data and images not currently available to surgeons through existing technologies.
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The Activ Surgical leadership team is regularly asked to participate in various industry meetings to share their experience and to discuss the company's unique technology. Following below is a quick list of those upcoming Panels & Events:
Check-out Our Previous Panels & Events:
SAGES: Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
Apr 1 – 4, 2020
Cleveland, OH
Surgical Disruptive Technology Summit
Mar 7 – 9, 2020
Houston, TX
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PANELS & EVENTS
Innovation Summit
Dublin 2020
Apr 21 – 23, 2020
Dublin, Ireland
Activ Surgical Readies for 2020 Commercial Launch;
Closes Additional $11 Million from Series A Round
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Activ Surgical Raises $11M to Improve Surgery Outcomes with Computer Vision
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Activ Surgical CEO, Todd Usen was interviewed by Joe Mullings, Founder of the Mullings Group in our hometown of Boston at The MedTech Conference in September, 2019.
We’d love to hear from you…
Activ Surgical, a pioneering surgical robotics company is looking for individuals who are interested in shaping the future of healthcare by improving patient outcomes, reducing healthcare costs, and addressing unintended surgical complications.
Interested? Check out our open roles and intern/co-op positions below or just give us a call. We’d be happy to chat with you about our company, our unique technology and the possibilities of joining our growing and dedicated team in Boston.
Email: kpettis@activsurgical.com
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