Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management MBA, General Management (focus on Marketing & Finance)
Kellogg-Recanati: Venture Capital / Intellectual Capital Management course sequence,
Tel Aviv University, Israel (March 2011)
University of Pennsylvania B.S.Eng, Bioengineering / Health Care Systems (Wharton School)
I am an entrepreneur with over fifteen years of operating experience in marketing, sales, technical services and distribution of high technology medical devices. My professional background includes the launch of new product lines targeting multiple medical specialties and international markets for one of the leading medical device companies in the world – Medtronic. In 2005 I founded my own medical device distribution company in PR dedicated to the marketing of minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic products. In addition, I am currently a second year student at the Executive MBA Program at Kellogg focusing on the financing of entrepreneurial ventures and marketing. As part of this curriculum, I just came back in March from a second trip to Israel, the “Start-up Nation”, where I took courses on Venture Capital (taught by Avi Zeevi, Co-founder of Carmel Ventures) and Intellectual Capital Management at Tel Aviv University.
My educational background also includes a Bioengineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania with a minor in Pre-Med and a concentration in Health Care Economics from the Wharton School.
(Click here for my LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joelcastrodad )
I am looking to work with other medical device entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capital firms in launching new companies to commercialize innovative and disruptive medical technologies. I can bring deep technology understanding, financial modeling skill, first-hand market knowledge, a good eye for identifying new opportunities and a global business dimension to any entrepreneurial/VC team.
