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Generic Medical Device’s (GMD’S) mission is to improve the lives of patients, families and health care providers by offering high quality, cost effective medical devices for standard of care procedures. GMD is initially focused on soft tissue repair products and products used in soft tissue repair procedures. GMD’s first two products will be a universal sling kit for female stress urinary incontinence and a complete line of ventral and inguinal hernia repair mesh. GMD’s investors include several prominent US venture capital firms including Latterell Venture Partners in San Francisco, Clark Estates in New York, the Grosvenor Funds in Washington, DC and the venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care organization in the United States. In addition to our prominent institutional investors, we have been very fortunate to have a number of prominent US urologists join our various advisory boards. Dr. Raymond Rackley from the Cleveland Clinic is a co-founder and Board member of GMD. In terms of management, we have recruited an experienced team with long track records of successfully pioneering new devices and new device markets. Our team has over 300 years of collective experience at such market leaders as Johnson and Johnson, Cyberonics, Ballard Medical, Intermedics, Guidant, St Jude Medical and Northstar Neurosciences. GMD’s corporate headquarters is in Gig Harbor, WA, approximately 30 minutes from the Seattle-Tacoma Airport. GMD-Europe is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
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