Partners/Affiliations

Distribution

In July 2009, ASI and Teleflex Medical concluded a domestic agreement for distribution of The PICC WAND^® Safety Introducer with ARROW^® Peelable Sheath.

Financial

David M. Geliebter:  David is Senior Partner of Carrot Capital Healthcare Ventures, a seed- and early-stage venture capital fund established in 2001. A serial entrepreneur with significant experience successfully starting, growing and selling businesses, Mr. Geliebter founded and ran the Carson Group, one of the world’s most successful financial information and advisory companies with more than 450 employees and operations around the world. The company was sold to Thomson Corporation in 2000 for $200 million. Mr. Geliebter was also a founding principal and President of Evolution Capital, a NASD broker/dealer subsidiary of Carson and an early-stage and mezzanine level healthcare investment banking firm. Before Carson Group, Mr. Geliebter started and ran another successful business in the financial services sector: Harvard Capital. This company was sold to WPP Group in 1986. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year for New York in 1993 by Inc. magazine and Ernst & Young. Mr. Geliebter is also the Chairman of Remedy Pharmaceutical and Critical Diagnostics, two Carrot Capital-initiated companies.

Sven M. Jacobson:  Sven is a Principal at Carrot Capital Healthcare Ventures. He has co-founded five healthcare startups over the last 8 years (St. Camillus Medical, Cure Therapeutics, Access Scientific, Critical Diagnostics, and Remedy Pharmaceuticals) and has served as CEO and CFO of each at various times during their development. Mr. Jacobson is an expert in running highly capital efficient companies i.e. businesses that outsource the majority of their development work in order to compress timelines, reduce costs, and access specialist talent that is not generally available (or needed) on a full time basis. He has experience in cardiovascular, orthopedic, and neurological therapeutic, device and diagnostic development. Currently, apart from his role of CEO of Remedy Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Jacobson runs the day-to-day operations of Carrot Capital and represents the fund on the boards of Access Scientific and Critical Diagnostics.

James M. Sweeney: Jim is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PatientSafe Solutions, Inc. Most recently he was founder and CEO of CardioNet (NASDQ: BEAT), the highly successful developer and marketer of Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry, a technology and service that allows physicians to continuously monitor cardiac activity as patients go about their normal daily activities. Mr. Sweeney took CardioNet public in March 2008. He has taken three companies public, led an LBO resulting in a 650 percent return to investors in less than four years. His first company Caremark returned $144 million to an original investor who invested $1.1 million. He has also raised more than $2 billion in financing for his various companies including $500 million in venture capital, $700 million in debt financing, $400 million in three IPO’s – and sold two companies for more than $1 billion.

Roger L. Hungerford:  Roger is Chief Executive of Axiom, an early-stage investment company in medical devices and services. Mr. Hungerford, also Chief Executive officer of SIGMA, is the inventor of SIGMA's Spectrum "Smart" intravenous infusion pump, a device that detects a prevents Adverse Drug Events caused by clinician programming errors.

Rodney F. Dammeyer: Rod is a graduate of Kent State University. He began his business career with Arthur Andersen & Co. and was admitted to partnership in 1970. He subsequently served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Northwest Industries, Inc. after which he became senior vice president and chief financial officer of Household International, Inc. From 1985-1995, Mr. Dammeyer was CEO of Itel Corporation which merged into Anixter International; and served as managing partner of Equity Group Corporate Investments from 1995 until 2000. Mr. Dammeyer is chairman of CAC, a private company offering capital investment and management advisory services. He is a member of the boards of directors of Stericycle, lnc., and Quidel Corporation, in addition to being a trustee of Invesco Funds and Van Kampen Investment Funds. He also serves on the boards of California Charter Schools Association and High Tech Charter Schools in San Diego. Mr. Dammeyer is committed to fighting global poverty and promoting education through various microfinance organizations.

Other Investors

ASI’s other investors have a long-standing relationship with management.

Corporate Affiliations

Infusion Nurses Society – Individual Membership

Association for Vascular Access – Platinum Member

Arrow is a registered trademark of Teleflex Incorporated.