About Manny Villafana
Manny Villafaña is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Medical 21, and a director. Medical 21 develops vascular graft technology for people who have coronary artery bypass surgery. It is his eighth medical device company. He led the earlier seven to IPO financing.
Villafaña began as a sales representative at Picker International in 1964. By 1967 he worked at Medtronic, where he was the first international sales administrator for the pacemaker. He founded Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. (Guidant Corp) and was its president and chairman from 1972 to 1976. He founded St. Jude Medical, Inc. and was its chairman and president from 1976 to 1982. He founded ATS Medical, Inc. in 1990 and was chairman of its board. ATS is now part of Medtronic. He co-founded GV Medical, Inc., and chaired its board and the board of CABG Medical, Inc. In 2007 he founded Kips Bay Medical, Inc.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Manny Villafana in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Manny Villafana works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.