About New Pace
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a global health issue, and its incidence and mortality rates can vary by region and population. It is estimated that there are over 6 million cases of SCA worldwide each year, with a mortality rate of approximately 90%.
NewPace is the only company targeting both: short-term as well as long-term sudden cardiac arrest (“SCA”) protection at home and outside the hospital, via a platform of innovative wearable and implantable medical devices – a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) - the DBelt™, and a novel implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) – the ISSD™.
Management
Gera Stommer, MSEE
Chairman & CEO
Mr. Strommer is the Co-founder and former President & CEO of MediGuide – a medical device company sold to St. Jude Medical on 2008 for $300M. He is involved for the last 25 years in Medical Devices & over 35 years in High-tech industry. Previously, he was General Manager of MediGuide as part of St. Jude Medical after the MediGuide acquisition. He also served as Director for Technological Business Development and Director for Software Development at Elbit Systems.
Robert S. Fishel, MD, FACC
CMO & President - USA Affairs
Dr. Fishel is the founder of Florida Electrophysiology Associates, the Southeast’s largest group of cardiac electrophysiologists. Dr. Fishel is a member of New World Angels, an angel group specializing in biotechnology early stage investments. Previous exits for Dr. Fishel’s investees have exceeded $300M. Dr. Fishel is the founder of Catalyst Development Partners, a real estate development company in the southeastern US. Dr. Fishel is a partner in Renaissance Properties NY.
Avi Broder, CPA
CFO & VP Business Dev.
Mr. Broder was the Co-founder of ESOP and BDB. He served as CFO for BRM Technologies, founded CFO outsourcing consulting practice, founder and
co-manager of ERB finance, founder and board member of ESOP Excellence, largest option management service provider in Israel, sold to Excelence investment house in 2019, founder and CEO of BDB, a technology accelerator and investment company focusing on Clean-Tech and Medical devices.
Board of Directors
Chairman
Gera Stommer
Director
Dr. Robert Fishel
Director
Avi Broder
Director
Dr. Avi Ludomirski
Partner – SCP Vitalife
Director
Junmin Wang
Chairman & CEOHaisco Pharmaceutical
Director
Dr. Louis Cannon
Senior Managing Director
BioStar Ventures
Scientific Advisory Board
Vivek Y. Reddy, M.D.
Director of Electrophysiology Laboratories,
Mount Sinai Medical Center,
New York
Joseph H. Levine, M.D.
Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology,St Francis Hospital,New York
Fred Morady , M.D.
Professor of Internal
Medicine & Cardiology
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Gerry Aguirre, M.D.
Consultant for ICC Healthcare,
co-founder of the Internal Medicine Group, Atlantis Physician Group, Palm Beach Health Associates, Primary Care Specialists of Palm Beach, and the BCG Group
Andrea Natale M.D
F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S., F.E.S.C.
Executive Medical Director,
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David’s Medical Center
Marius Nacht
Israeli entrepreneur,
Founder, ChairmanCheck Point Software Technologies
Jeremy N. Ruskin, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Massachusetts General Hospital
Avi Ludomirski M.D.
Founder and managing partner of the Vitalife Life Sciences Fund.
Int. renowned physician – over 20 years experience in life sciences. Board member of Vishay (VSH). Lead investor in MediGuide
Investors
Private Investors
(Founders & leading USA Physicians)
