Primary Job Title Founder & Senior Managing Director Primary Organization BioStar Capital
Location Charlevoix, Michigan, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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Dr. Cannon is a former Judith Volkman Scholar In Residence, and is the Founder and Senior Managing Director of BioStar Ventures. He has been repeatedly honored as one of "America’s Top Interventional Cardiologists”, is the President of the Cardiac and Vascular Research Center of Northern Michigan, and has over hundreds of medical publications,
as well as United States medical device patents.
He has or does serve on the strategic advisory boards for such Fortune 500 companies as Medtronic, Abbott, and Boston Scientific, JNJ, Covidien, as well as many early developing medical technologies. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of CardioVascular Ingenuity and Kona.
Dr. Cannon, through BioStar, has participated in the start up and subsequent development of a multitude of developing bio-technological, or emerging healthcare companies and has served as the National or International Principal Investigator for landmark cardiovascular studies.
Dr. Cannon assisted in performing First-In-Man percutaneous Aortic Valve procedures in Paraguay in 2007 and served as Chairman of the Board of AorTx, Inc, which was successfully acquired by a publicly traded company.
Similarly, BioStar was also the lead investor of Setagon, whereby Dr. Cannon served as the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board, which was also acquired by a Fortune 100 company.
