From Zero to $5.75 Billion: Velis Talks Building Medtech Powerhouses

Christopher Velis is known as the co-founder of Auris Health, a surgical robotics company Johnson & Johnson acquired for $3.4 billion with the potential for up $2.35 billion in milestones. Velis has since founded Miraki Innovations –a technology investment and development firm that identifies medical breakthroughs and builds those ideas into companies that have substantial investor returns. He serves as executive chairman of the Cambridge,MA-based company.  Velis will share his journey in healthcare during a keynote session at MD&M Minneapolis  Oct. 23  titled, From Zero to $5.75 Billion: Making Medtech Powerhouses. MD+DI caught up with the entrepreneur to talk to him about the session and his career in healthcare. MD+DI: Let’s talk about your beginnings in medtech. How did you become interested in healthcare and medtech for that matter? Velis: I started my career at a software company that offered high-end engineering software for companies like Lockheed Martin and NASA then went to business school and shortly thereafter made the move to Wall Street at Merrill Lynch. The world was shifting, and tech was becoming big. My software background helped me tremendously - I had expertise few others had at that time, and it propelled my career forward. It was while I was on Wall Street that my long-held desire to help people became more pronounced. The medte...
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