As VP of Strategic Development at Ximedica, Michael Neidert acts as the liaison between client companies and Ximedica’s product development teams, in particular serving as a strategy consultant resource for those clients. He brings product development experience across a wide range of medical devices, having received his PhD studying cell and tissue engineering at the University of Minnesota and then commercializing pacing leads, coronary stents, cardiac navigation systems, and renal denervation systems over 15+ years at Medtronic. Neidert has 15 US patents and is an author on 6 academic papers. In addition to his PhD from the University of Minnesota, he holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from London Business School.