The People
Jack Love Richard Love
George Love
Albert Duarte Larry
Savage Robert Suggitt
Jack W. Love, D.Phil., M.D., CEO and Chief Scientific Officer, has over
30 years experience as a practicing cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon. Beginning
in 1980, he worked on the concept and development of a stent-mounted autologous
tissue replacement heart valve. He
retired from surgical practice in 1989 to devote full time effort to the
project, incorporated as Autogenics in 1990, to continue research and
development, to conduct clinical trials in Europe, and to introduce the valve
to the market. When these goals had
been achieved, and $18 million of investment capital had been raised, a
professional management team was installed in 1995. Dr. Love left the company at that time to explore new concepts
for the treatment of valvular heart disease based on stentless reconstruction
with autologous tissue. He is a named
inventor or co-inventor on 20 patents related to medical devices.
Richard M. Love, VP for Operations has over 10 years experience in
start-up medical device manufacturing and distribution, including 8 years of
industry experience in the United Kingdom and Europe, 4 of which were with Autogenics,
an autologous tissue replacement valve manufacturer. In addition to directing the implementation of a 4,000 square
foot production, laboratory, and office facility, including a class 1,000 clean
room, Mr. Love has established important contacts with key medical device
distributors in the United Kingdom and other European countries. He also played an integral role in achieving
certification of Autogenics’ Scotland facility to ISO 9001:EN46001 standards and
the CE Mark for Autogenic’s heart valve product. He has obtained the CE Mark and ISO 9002 certification for
CardioMend’s products and quality system, and is coordinating pre-production
activities.
George F.C. Love, VP for Business and Legal Affairs, is an attorney with a background in business and regulatory law. He is admitted to the state bars in California and Missouri. While attending law school at the University of California, San Francisco (Hastings) he became familiar with start-up businesses and the heart valve industry as an early employee of Autogenics in the summer of 1990. Currently, Mr. Love is working part-time as Director of Legal Affairs for a privately held, St. Louis pharmaceutical company. He has been directing business administration, including business development, and legal and regulatory activities for CardioMend. He has obtained regulatory approval from the FDA for CardioMend's initial instruments as Class I (exempt) devices after a 510(k) submission.
Albert
Duarte is a production and quality engineer with over 18 years of experience,
including more than 9 years experience in the medical device industry. After graduating with a B.S. in Industrial
Technology from Cal State Long Beach, Mr. Duarte spent 10 years working as a
quality engineer for Hughes Aircraft Corporation. More recently he has worked with Circon Corporation and McGhan
Medical, both medical device companies located in Santa Barbara, California, as
a senior member of their respective Quality Engineering departments. Mr. Duarte has extensive experience working
with ISO Standards and FDA Quality System Regulations, and he is very familiar
with the process of taking a medical device product from the concept stage
through to full commercialization. Mr.
Duarte is employed with CardioMend as a Production Engineer. In addition to other responsibilities, he
will manage the contract manufacturing activities that are performed on behalf
of the company.
Larry
Savage is a design engineer with over
25 years of experience in project management and consulting engineering, including more than 7 years designing and
developing medical devices. He has substantial experience taking a variety of
surgical and other medical devices from the concept stage through to
commercialization. His experience
includes work as Senior Project Engineer for AMSCO/HALL Surgical, Inc. of Santa
Barbara, where he was responsible for the complete design, development and
testing of several surgical instruments. He has also worked for Advanced Medical Systems in Minneapolis, where, among
other things, he designed and developed measuring devices for use in lung
surgery. Mr. Savage received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Currently,
the Company is working with Mr. Robert Suggitt of McLean Engineering, Inc. in
Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. Suggitt has extensive experience in the design
and development of medical devices. Most recently, before joining McLean
Engineering, he served as Vice President of Research and Development for
Autogenics, manufacturer of the first successful autologous tissue replacement
heart valve. In addition, prior to working at Autogenics, Mr. Suggitt held
various positions with Mitroflow International in Richmond, British Columbia,
including that of Production Manager with responsibilities for all areas of
production of Mitroflow’s bovine pericardial heart valve.
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