Carl Simpson , MBA

Coronis Medical Ventures
Sunnyvale, CA

Carl has worked in the medical/medical device arena for over 40 years.

He supported his way through undergraduate school working as an x-ray technician at El Camino Hospital. In addition he supported his way through graduate school working at Stanford in cardiovascular medicine.

His undergraduate training is in Microbiology and Biochemistry. His graduate degrees are in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and an MBA, both from the University of Santa Clara.

After graduate school and a short period working for Hewlett-Packard's medical business group, Carl began an unanticipated excursion into becoming a medical device entrepreneur. With John Simpson, MD, PhD, and Ray Williams, Advanced Cardiovascular Systems (ACS) was formulated and was Carl's first entrepreneurial effort. Needless to say ACS was very successful, the company was sold to Lilly in 1984 and spun-off into Guidant in 1994. ACS became the University of Medical Devices for Silicon Valley, giving birth to over 100 medical devices companies. Recently Guidant has been sold to Boston Scientific and Abbott Vascular.

ACS created the experience, motivation and entrepreneurial drive to launch into a career of working with other entrepreneurs in establishing over 16 medical device companies. Carl has been on the board of multiple medical device companies and worked with Versant Ventures for four years learning the VC business and assisting them in defining new companies for future investments.

With multiple start-up companies under his belt, understanding the VC business models, and 40 years of operational and clinical experience, Carl is uniquely situated to contribute to the success of early stage medical device companies through the Coronis Medical Ventures incubator.