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Mr. Rasschaert is a senior executive with over 20 years medical device experience in business development and sales and marketing in the global market environment. He is a serial entrepreneur with five medical device start-up companies. Mr. Rasschaert’s first success took place in 1996 when InStent was acquired by Medtronic for $268 million. Mr. Rasschaert was part of the initial team who started InStent (coronary stents Eden Prairie, MN)) in 1992. He was instrumental in launching InStent worldwide operations. Later he helped Cardima (electro-physiology catheters Fremont, CA) to launch its sales and marketing operations and to go through a successful IPO in 1997. He was part of the initial team that started Timm Medical Technologies (urology products Eden Prairie, MN) in 1998 and led the sales and marketing department. Timm Medical Technologies was successfully purchased by Endocare in 2001. Mr. Rasschaert was also part of the team who launched CardialCare (ventricular assist device St Louis Park, MN) and was an executive at Percardia (percutaneous bypass Merrimack, NH). Prior to these positions, Mr. Rasschaert worked at the Medtronic European Headquarters (Brussels, Belgium). | 