Management Team
Tony Recupero
President and CEO
Tony brings over 20 years of experience in the medical device industry to Baxano, Inc. Tony served as Vice President of Sales for Kyphon, Inc., joining the company at commercial inception and spearheading Kyphon's significant revenue growth over a period of five years. At Kyphon, Tony led one of the largest and most effective direct sales forces in the spine market. Prior to Kyphon, Tony was the National Sales Manager for Sulzer Spine-Tech, Inc., where he was responsible for revenue growth of the BAK fusion cage and other spinal hardware. Tony started his medical device career in sales and sales management with United States Surgical Corporation.
Tony is a graduate of The General Management Program at Harvard Business School and holds a B.A. in Communications from State University of New York at Albany. Tony serves on the Board of Directors at Aragon Surgical, Inc.
Ed Sinclair
Vice President, Regulatory and Quality
Ed has over 25 years of medical device industry experience at market-leading corporations as well as early phase ventures. Prior to joining Baxano, Inc., Ed held a wide variety of positions in clinical research, regulatory affairs, operations and quality assurance. Ed was a Vice President at CardioKinetix, Conceptus, Prolifix Medical, and PercuSurge (acquired by Medtronic). Other management positions were held at Cardiac Pathways (acquired by Boston Scientific) and Advanced Cardiovascular Systems (Guidant).
Ed has a B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine and an M.A. in Management from the University of Redlands.
Mike Wallace
Senior Vice President, Research, Development and Operations
Mike brings more than 18 years of research and development experience in the medical device industry to Baxano, Inc.
Previously, Mike held executive positions at BARRX Medical, Boston Scientific and Target Therapeutics managing research and development, engineering, advanced research, new business development and operations. During his tenure, Mike led several product development programs to successful multi-million dollar launches.
Prior to BARRX Medical, Boston Scientific and Target Therapeutics, Mike was an orthopedic research engineer for the University of California, Davis and also a process development/manufacturing engineer for W.L. Gore & Associates.
Mike holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a bioengineering emphasis from the University of California, Davis and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware. He has co-authored six articles published in peer-reviewed technical journals and is an inventor on over 80 issued or pending U.S. patents.
Amie Borgstrom
Senior Director, Marketing
Amie brings 10 years of spine industry experience to the Baxano, Inc. team. Prior to joining Baxano, Amie held roles in marketing and product development at various medical device companies, including DePuy Spine, a Johnson & Johnson company, and Abbott Vascular, during which she worked closely with leading surgeons to develop and successfully launch seven new implant and instrument systems. In addition Amie has served as a market strategy consultant for several early-stage medical device companies in the Bay area.
Amie holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, M.S.E. from Columbia University, and B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Greg Welsh
Senior Director, Operations
Greg has more than 20 years of operations and engineering experience in the medical device industry. He has held various management positions at a variety of companies from start-up ventures to global Fortune 500 corporations including Baxter Healthcare, Target Therapeutics, Boston Scientific, Cierra, and Avantis Medical Systems.
Prior to Baxano, Inc., Greg led production operations at Avantis Medical Systems. From 1996 to 2006, he held various senior management positions at Boston Scientific/Target Therapeutics responsible for all catheter manufacturing engineering including new products, production and product transfers to Ireland. From 1988 to1996 at Edwards, a division of Baxter Healthcare, he served in various engineering and supervisory level positions working in new product development and product transfers to Puerto Rico, Mexico and The Netherlands.
Greg holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.