Primary Job Title Founder &CEO Primary Organization 
MedNews
Gender Male
Mr Rohrbaugh is the founding CEO and director of Acorn Cardiovascular, Inc., a company engaged in developing a non-active device treatment for heart failure. During Mr Rohrbaugh’s role as President and Chief Executive Offi cer, from December 1997 to December 2001, Acorn completed 4 rounds of fi nancing totalling $US47.6 million to advance the
innovative Cardiac Support Device, CorCap, from concept to Phase II randomised clinical trials in the USA and Europe.
Mr Rohrbaugh has also served as a consultant to various venture capital fi rms. At times he served as CEO for start-up companies such as Embolix, which was acquired by Edwards Lifesciences, eMED Corporation and AMED Systems. In those roles he also served on the Board of Directors.
From 1977 to 1996, Mr Rohrbaugh held a variety of executive management positions with Baxter Healthcare International, including Vice President of Research and Development for the Edwards Critical Care Division and Vice President/General Manager of the Edwards MDS and the Novacor Division (an LVAD manufacturer).
Mr Rohrbaugh has over 30 years of business and product development experience in both the domestic and international medical device markets, including nearly 15 years with heart failure devices. He also has 10 years experience in the scientifi c instrumentation business and 4 years in the aerospace fi eld.
