Beverly Huss , MS

President

Vibrynt
Redwood City, CA

Ms. Huss joined Vibrynt as President and CEO in January 2007. Vibrynt develops minimally invasive therapeutic devices for patients suffering from morbid obesity. Prior to this, Mr. Huss has been with Santa Clara, California- based Guidant since 1986, fulfilling a variety of executive roles within the company?s various medical device divisions. She has managed the worldwide Endovascular Solutions business and has been responsible for research and development, manufacturing, sales, marketing, finance, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, clinical affairs and human resources within Endovascular Solutions. Prior to this Ms. Huss held several executive level positions as Vice President of Guidant?s Canada and Latin America operations, Vice President of Vascular Intervention Global Marketing and Vice President of the Stent Business Unit where she built the company?s coronary stent business. Earlier in her career, Ms. Huss held engineering positions at both Honeywell Defense Systems Division and Jones and Laughlin Steel. Additionally, Ms. Huss served as chairman of the Silicon Valley American Heart Association and as a senior advisor to Pervasis Therapeutics, a Cambridge based cell therapy company. Ms. Huss holds an M.S. in technology management from Pepperdine University and a B.S. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Illinois. Ms. Huss has several patents to her credit in the cardiovascular and obesity medical device areas. Ms. Huss served on the boards of Wright Medical Inc. Dade Behring, Inc. and Artes Medical.