Earl Bakken

Earl Bakken

male
Artificial pacemaker, Futurologist, University of Minnesota, blue baby syndrome, C. Walton Lillihei, Dr. C. Walton Lillihei…Medtronic, Medtronic Mission
Earl Bakken developed the first wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957 as a result of a fatal problem at the University of Minnesota hospital. Dr....
William W. George

William W. George

male
Anne Mulcahy, true north, General Mills, Chief Operating Officer, Avon Products, BusinessWeek…Medtronic
William W. George is a professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, former Executive-in-Residence at the Yale School of Management,...

Gary K. Michelson

male
inventor, surgeon, patent, Medtronic, surgery, lawsuit
Gary K. Michelson, founder of Karlin Technology, is a surgeon turned inventor. On April 22, 2005, Medtronic Inc. paid US$ 1.35 billion to settle a...
Palmer Hermundslie

Palmer Hermundslie

male, deceased (1970)
American, Medtronic, From Minneapolis, Minnesota, Business Person, Palmer J. Hermundslie
Palmer J. Hermundslie (death April 1970), with his brother-in-law Earl Bakken, founded the company Medtronic in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota....
William R. Brody

William R. Brody

male, 65 years old
Pilot certification in the United States, President of Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, Stanford University alumni, Dr. William R. Brody, Michael R. Bloomberg…Medtronic
Brody has led the university since September 1, 1996. His dozen years at Hopkins' helm make him the fifth-longest serving of its 13 presidents, and...
Uwe Muegge

Uwe Muegge

male, 48 years old
International Organization for Standardization, Alexa Internet, terminology extraction, German, alexa, machine translation…Medtronic
Uwe Muegge (pronounced ), (b. December 5, 1960) is an innovator and educator in the field of translation. Muegge has developed several controlled...

Rosemarie Ives

female
Microsoft, Medtronic, nintendo, safeco insurance, Cingular Wireless, Genie Industries
Rosemarie Ives is the current mayor of Redmond, Washington. Ives was born Rosemarie Moccia to Italian immigrants to the United States. She is...

Frank Aquila

male
Brooklyn Law School alumni, St. Francis Prep alumni, pharmacia, ECHOSTAR, Diageo, british airways…Medtronic
Frank Aquila generally represents large multinational corporations in significant transactions and has represented British Airways, Diageo, Amgen,...

Brian Barratt-Boyes

male, deceased (2006)
Death from surgical complications, Donald Ross, Douglas Robb, Nuffield Fellow, cardiopulmonary bypass, Sir Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes…Medtronic
Sir Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes, KBE (January 13, 1924 - March 8, 2006) was a pioneering heart surgeon from New Zealand. Barratt-Boyes went to...

Timothy S. Nelson

male
Northwestern University, University of Minnesota, director, business development, Medtronic, President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Nelson joined MAP Pharmaceuticals as President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2005, bringing the company 20 years of experience in...