Biography

Joel is a mission driven leader with more than twenty five years of experience in successfully building, growing and leading medical technology companies. He has a focus on executing growth strategies with operating discipline to exceed goals and develop market leadership in a patient first culture of strong values and ethics. Joel has extensive functional expertise and experience in General Management, Sales, Marketing, M&A, and Operations.

Previously Joel lead the $400M+ Cardiac Rhythm Management and Neuromodulation business as President for Integer Holdings LLC, a $1.2B publicly traded medical device contract development and manufacturing company, where he oversaw commercial execution with a focus on operational efficiencies and margin control. He also served as the President of the Americas Division for St. Jude Medical Inc., a $5.5B global medical device leader. In this role Joel lead the $3B commercial organizations for the electrophysiology, cardiology, structural heart, cardiac rhythm management and neuromodulation businesses in the Americas. In addition to a number of other leadership roles at St. Jude Medical, Joel also served as one of the founding members of the Atrial Fibrillation Division management team which he helped lead and grow to more than $700M in revenue.

Joel holds a Masters in Business Administration degree from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.