CVRx’s Investment In HF And Wider Medtech Industry Set To Pay Off

CVRx president and CEO Nadim Yared believes his company’s second-generation chronic heart failure device could present a serious commercial challenge to the traditional major players in the field. Meantime, with 10 years under his belt as CEO, Yared is focused on building the company, rather than on exits.

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Nadim Yared is a consummate networker. Indeed, the device industry entrepreneur who leads private Minneapolis-based CVRx Inc. has a lot to network about, as he stewards Barostim therapy for the treatment of chronic heart failure and hypertension onto the US and EU markets.

There, and once established, he is confident that the heart failure device (the first intended application of which was hypertension)...

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