An engineer turned entrepreneur, Randy has spent his career developing and commercializing medical technologies aimed at improving the lives of some of healthcare’s sickest patients. He has built businesses and teams from the ground up, opened new markets across the U.S. and Europe, raised institutional capital, developed strategic partnerships, and helped bring more than 100 novel medical devices to market. Today, Randy is CEO of Centese, where he helped take Thoraguard from a back-of-the-napkin concept through FDA clearance and into clinical adoption. The technology has now been used in more than 20,000 procedures, helping patients recover from major operations including open-heart and lung cancer surgery. Randy’s approach to innovation starts with the problem, not the technology. Question the assumptions everyone else accepts. Build. Test. Learn. Adapt. Keep going when the path gets difficult.