Hanson Gifford

Hanson Gifford

Chief Executive Officer at Qlt Plug Delivery, Inc.

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Hanson is a Partner of LSV.
He assists the LSV medical device team with deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio company management.
He has served in this role since November 2013.
Hanson is also a Managing Partner at The Foundry, LLC, a medical device company incubator and a preferred partner to LSV.
Since its inception in 1998, Hanson has led The Foundry in all of its activities.
These include the invention, identification and development of new technologies, the formation, financing, and staffing of over twenty new companies, and ongoing support of these new ventures as a board member.
Success stories include Evalve (acquired by Abbott), Concentric (acquired by Stryker), Ardian (acquired by Medtronic), Twelve (acquired by Medtronic).
At ForSight Labs, an Ophthalmology-focused incubator started by Hanson, Eugene de Juan, MD, and K.
Angela Macfarlane, successes include Transcend Medical (acquired by Alcon), Forsight Newco 2 (acquired by QLT), Forsight Vision 4 (acquired by Genentech/Roche), and Forsight Vision 5 (acquired by Allergan).
Prior to The Foundry, Hanson was Vice President of Research and Development at Heartport, Inc., which had a successful IPO in 1996.
From 1993-1998, he built and led a 62-person team at Heartport developing a wide variety of novel devices and procedures for minimally invasive cardiac surgery.
In 1992-1993, Hanson co-founded and served as Managing Director of Bavaria Medizin Technologie, GmbH in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
In 1991, Hanson co-founded and served as President of Cardiovascular Therapeutic Technologies (acquired by Eli Lilly).
From 1985-1990, Hanson worked at Devices for Vascular Intervention (acquired by Eli Lilly) in various engineering, clinical research and marketing capacities.
Before joining DVI, Hanson worked in engineering roles at Oximetrix and General Dynamics.
Hanson is a Director of FIRE1, Contego, Reprieve Cardiovascular, Half Moon Medical, Tangible Science, Apreo Health, and Mavericks Endo.

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Founder 2011-01-30
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Director/Board Member 2011-02-22
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Founder 1997-12-31
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Private Equity Investor 2013-10-31
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Cornell University Undergraduate Degree

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