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.

George Harter

Chief Financial Officer

George brings over 15 years of experience in the medical devices industry to Baxano, Inc.  Prior to joining Baxano, George served as the Chief Financial Officer for Acclarent, Inc. from 2005 to 2011, through its acquisition by Johnson & Johnson. From September 2003 to April 2005, George served as Chief Financial Officer for Velocimed, an interventional cardiology company. Prior to Velocimed, George held roles at other health care companies including Boston Scientific.

George received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and his M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University. 

Mike Wallace

Sr. Vice President, R&D and Business Development

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 100 issued or pending U.S. patents.

Ed Sinclair

Vice President, Clinical, Regulatory and Quality Affairs

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.

Todd Clearwater

Vice President, Sales

Todd has almost 20 years of experience in spine sales.  Prior to joining Baxano, Inc., Todd was National Vice President of Sales at Apatech, Inc., which was acquired by Baxter, Inc.  Prior to Apatech, Todd held roles of increasing sales management responsibility, including serving as Sr. Vice President, Sales at Interventional Spine, Inc. and Director of Sales/Spine Education at Kyphon, Inc. (acquired by Medtronic, Inc.) 

Todd graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a B.A. in Political Science.

Amie Borgstrom

Vice President, Marketing

Amie brings over 15 years of medical device experience to the Baxano, Inc. team. Prior to joining Baxano, Amie held roles in marketing and product development at companies including Abbott and DePuy Spine, a Johnson & Johnson company. She has worked closely with leading physicians to develop and successfully launch seven new implant and instrument systems and is an inventor on over 30 issued or pending US patents.

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

Vice President, Manufacturing

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.