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Kurt Azarbarzin

Executive officer and director at Precision IO Group

ExecutiveDirectorPublic companyRoles at 2 startups
Updated Nov 8, 2026·Latest SEC filing Oct 19, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Kurt Azarbarzin

Kurt Azarbarzin is an executive officer and director at Precision IO Group. He has been a TELA Bio board member since November 2018. He also serves on the board of Bright Uro, a medical technology business.

Azarbarzin led flexible-robot maker EndoQuest Robotics and served on its board from November 2020 to June 2024. He led robotic-surgery company Verb Surgical and served as a director from July 2019 to November 2020. He was CONMED's chief technology officer from 2016 to July 2019. He founded SurgiQuest, a minimally invasive surgery company, and led it from 2005 through June 2016. Earlier, he held research and development leadership roles at U.S. Surgical and Tyco Healthcare. He also chaired TELA Bio's board and served on a Yale biomedical technology center's executive board. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Bridgeport, then studied mechanical design at Bridgeport Engineering Institute and manufacturing engineering at Bradley University.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios, from Kurt Azarbarzin's profile and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Kurt Azarbarzin in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Precision IO Group Inc. Current
CEO and director
Executive Officer and Director
2026 – Present · Miami, FL
Precision IO develops minimally invasive cancer-treatment tools using robotics and remote intervention.
Bright Uro, Inc. Current
Director
2023 – Present · Irvine, CA
TELA Bio, Inc. Current
Chairman of the Board of Directors
2018 – Present · Public company (TELA)
Frazier Healthcare Partners
Partner COE
2025 – 2026
Freyja Healthcare
Member of the board of Freyja Healthcare
2025 – 2026
Endoquest Robotics
Chief Executive Officer (2020 – 2024)
Member of the board (2020 – 2024)
2020 – 2024
Standard Bariatrics, Inc
Chairman Of The Board
2019 – 2024
Yale University
Member of the Executive Board at Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology at Yale
2016 – 2024
Johnson & Johnson Robotics and Digital Solutions
Global Head of Digital Solutions
2020
Verb Surgical Inc.
Chief Executive Officer (2019 – 2020)
Member of the board of directors (2019 – 2020)
2019 – 2020
CONMED Corporation
Chief Technology Officer
2016 – 2019
SurgiQuest, Inc.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
2005 – 2016
U.S. Surgical
Leadership roles in Research and Development
VP of R&D (1998 – 2004)
1998 – 2004
United States Surgical/Tyco Healthcare
VP of R&D
1998 – 2004
United States Surgical Corporation
VP of R&D
1983 – 2004
Tyco Healthcare
Leadership roles in Research and Development
Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology at Yale University
Member of the executive board

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Kurt Azarbarzin works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Precision IO Group Inc. · Form D, Oct 19, 2026
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Frank Yu
Director
Kevin Reilly
Kevin Reilly
Director
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Chris Geyen
Director
Robert Scott
Robert Scott
Executive officer
Bright Uro, Inc. · Form D/A, Sep 5, 2025
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Kevin Hershberger
Executive officer
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Derek Herrera
Chief Executive Officer and director

Kurt Azarbarzin in the News

Sources

  1. SECPrecision IO Group Inc. Form D, filed Oct 19, 2026
  2. SECBright Uro, Inc. Form D/A, filed Sep 5, 2025
  3. SECForms 3, 4 and 5 filed by Kurt Azarbarzin (SEC filer 1792303)
  4. P3TELA Bio registration statement
  5. P5ColubrisMX rebranding release