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Podcast: Medsider: Learn from Medtech and Healthtech Founders and CEOs
Episode: Doubling Down on Your Mission by Diversifying Your Medtech Portfolio: Interview With ReShape Lifesciences CEO Bart Bandy
Description: In this episode of Medsider Radio, we’re talking with ReShape Lifesciences CEO Bart Bandy, who started out selling medical equipment door-to-door, then landed a spot in the first sales class for Ethicon Endo-Surgery. He ran the company’s global sales and managed the San Francisco division, before becoming the Group Marketing Manager of Karl Storz Endoscopy.In 1999, Bart was recruited to become COO of laparoscopic weight loss startup Inamed. He helped manage the company’s $3.5 billion acquisition by Allergan in 2006. Then in 2019, he became CEO and President of ReShape, which had just acquired the Lap-Band, previously owned...