Partners/Affiliations
Distribution
In July 2009, ASI and Teleflex Medical concluded a domestic agreement for distribution of The PICC WANDTM Safety Introducer with ARROW® Peelable Sheath.
Financial
David M. Geliebter: David is Senior Partner of Carrot Capital Healthcare Venture, a seed- and early-stage venture capital fund established in 2001. A serial entrepreneur with significant experience successfully starting, growing and selling businesses, David founded and ran the Carson Group, one of the world’s most successful financial information and advisory companies with more than 450 employees and operations around the world. The company was sold to Thomson Corporation in 2000 for $200 million. David was also a founding principal and President of Evolution Capital, a NASD broker/dealer subsidiary of Carson and an early-stage and mezzanine level healthcare investment banking firm. Before Carson Group, David started and ran another successful business in the financial services sector: Harvard Capital. This company was sold to WPP Group in 1986. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year for New York in 1993 by Inc. magazine and Ernst & Young. David is also the Chairman of Remedy Pharmaceutical and Critical Diagnostics, two Carrot Capital-initiated companies.
James M. Sweeney: Jim is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PatientSafe Solutions, Inc. Most recently he was founder and CEO of CardioNet (NASDQ: BEAT), the highly successful developer and marketer of Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry, a technology and service that allows physicians to continuously monitor cardiac activity as patients go about their normal daily activities. Mr. Sweeney took CardioNet public in March 2008. He has taken three companies public, led an LBO resulting in a 650 percent return to investors in less than four years. His first company Caremark returned $144 million to an original investor who invested $1.1 million. He has also raised more than $2 billion in financing for his various companies including $500 million in venture capital, $700 million in debt financing, $400 million in three IPO’s – and sold two companies for more than $1 billion.
Other Investors
ASI’s other investors have a longstanding relationship with management.
Corporate Affiliations
Infusion Nurses Society – Individual Membership
Association for Vascular Access – Platinum Member
Arrow is a registered trademark of Teleflex Incorporated.