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said Bakirtzian.
The most recent milestone was approval
from Health Canada, which allows their
core product to be launched commercially
in Canada.
Bakirtzian believes that it is in part due to
the company’s impressive team members
that they have attracted positive attention.
Another member of the management
team is Eric Ryterski, the co-founder and
former director of product development
of Medtronic’s surgical navigation division.
Surgeons have used Ryterski’s products to
treat more than 500,000 orthopaedic and
neurosurgery patients worldwide.
“At the end of the day our team is very
strong, and from an investor’s point of
view they invest in team first and concept
second,” said Bakirtzian. “I think that is
something we learned and understood in
the early days and we built a strong team
around us from advisors, to surgeons, to
