Andy is an entrepreneur with over thirty-five years of engineering, marketing and general business experience developing medical devices and starting companies. Andy is CEO and Co-founder of Conformal Medical, Inc., a clinical stage company developing Left Atrial Appendage closure technologies.
He previously held a position in Business Development for medical devices at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. In 2003, Andy founded GI Dynamics which developed an endoscopic device for the treatment of diabetes. He possesses technical expertise in biomaterials, mechanism design, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, holds over 85 patents and has authored over 20 technical publications.
He holds a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University.
