Bobby Dwayne Montgomery

Guidant Corp. manufactures cardiovascular therapeutic devices. The company also provides cardiac and peripheral vascular repair surgical systems. It operates in Europe and Japan. Guidant was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Medizone International, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of AsepticSure system and provides disinfection solutions. AsepticSure system provides means of disinfecting non-porous surfaces in hospitals, healthcare facilities and other non- hospital facilities. It operates under the AsepticSure and Trioxidane brands. The company was founded in January 1986 and is headquartered in Kalamazoo, MI.

Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the research, development, manufacture, and commercialization of regenerative medicine products. Its biosurgery business focuses on using unique tissue preservation technologies to develop viable human tissue products designed to improve wound closure and surgical outcomes for patients and physicians over standard of care alone. The company was founded by Peter A. Friedli and James S. Burns on December 23, 1992 and is headquartered in Columbia, MD.

Smith & Nephew, Inc. develops and markets medical devices. Its products include television cameras and monitors, endoscopes, arthroscopes, orthopedic hand owered instruments, fiber optic illumination systems, laparoscopes, and surgical instruments. The company was founded on November 27, 1975 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.

Linvatec Corp. provides advanced electrosurgical systems and electrocardiogram electrodes and accessories. The company's products include polymer implants, such as screws, pins, and meniscal implants used in various orthopedic procedures. In addition, it offers battery, pneumatic, and electric-powered surgical instruments, which are used in open orthopedic surgery and other surgical applications, including oral, maxillofacial, ENT, otolaryngology, podiatry, thoracic hand, cardiology, and neurosurgery. The company's products, such as arthroscopic instrumentation, implants, fixation, tissue repair systems serve orthopedic surgeons for diagnostic purposes, minor surgeries and complex reconstructions of knees, shoulders and small joints, such as the wrist and ankle. It has operations in Tampere, Finland, California, and Oregon, as well as Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Australia, Austria, Poland, and the Netherlands. The company was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Largo, FL.L.

Trauma Records produces music records. The private company is based in Sherman Oaks, CA.

TranS1, Inc. designs and develops surgical procedures and equipment for back pain. It is a medical device company focused on designing, developing and marketing products that implement its proprietary approach to treat degenerative conditions of the spine affecting the lower lumbar region. TranS1 currently markets the AxiaLIF family of products for single-level and two-level lumbar fusion and the Vectre and Avatar posterior fixation systems for lumbar fixation supplemental to AxiaLIF fusion. Its primary technology is AxiaLIF, a minimally invasive access and fusion system that enables lumbar fusion to be performed with complete preservation of the annulus and all paraspinal soft tissue structures. The company specializes in bringing innovative spine solutions to market, including AxiaLIF and AxiaLIF 2L+, technologies that allow surgeons to perform lower lumbar fusions that result in high fusion rates and low complication rates. The company is also developing a motion preservation platform to be delivered through this minimally invasive, trans-sacral approach. TranS1 was founded in May 2000 and is headquartered in Wilmington, NC.

Part of CONMED Corp., ConMed Linvatec, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices. The company is based in Largo, FL.