About us
Launching a business to market and sell medical technology in the USA requires an immediate range of costly services, functions, and qualified people. Full-time staff might not be needed for all positions. Part-time employees or consultants are often not a sustainable solution to build an organization with lasting customer relations.
Navigant Medical Partners is a new business concept for clients looking to operate in the USA. We draw from the best people available and pool resources in cost-efficient ways to benefit our clients.
We are not a distributor providing limited control and access for the client manufacturer. Instead, we are an extension of our clients, with each of our resources looking and acting like the individual client we represent. Clients can set up a U.S. subsidiary, legally interacting with the customer, but with some or all services outsourced to Navigant Medical Partners. Our clients can take as little or as much control in their subsidiary as they prefer and let us do the rest.
Our unique model allows us to:
• Decrease time-to-market by having a turnkey solution
• Offer a full portfolio of world-class fractional commercial services
• Provide centuries of collective experience to jump start a client’s business
• Set our clients up for success, helping them transition into their own, full commercial operation when the time is right
Navigant Medical Partners is the premier firm for sustainable growth at reasonable operating cost for our clients in medical technology.
Leadership Team
Frank Menzler
John Bojanowski
John Bojanowski
25+ years of global executive experience in private and public Medical Device companies. Frank is General Manager North America for THERA-Trainer. At Movendo Technology and DIH/Hocoma he was Executive VP & General Manager North America. Prior, he held roles at Fraunhofer USA, was CEO at HepaLife (acquired by Alliqua Biomedical) and Managing Director Europe at Abiomed (acquired by J&J), following the acquisition of his start-up Impella, Germany. At Guidant Corp. (acquired by Boston Scientific) he held marketing, sales and distributor management roles for Europe, Middle East and Canada. Frank is a mentor for medical device start-ups at the START2 (formerly German Accelerator) program financed by the German Federal Government.
John Bojanowski
John Bojanowski
John Bojanowski
30+ years of experience largely focused on sports medicine and digital health. John is currently Managing Director of Launch Health Partners as well as Board Director, Investor and leading the commercialization efforts for Tetrous, Inc. . He is also a mentor with START2 (formerly German Accelerator). Prior, he served as President of Clear Arch Health, a division of MobileHelp, (acquired by Advocate Aurora Enterprises). John has led multiple additional exits as EVP of Sales at Scandius BioMedical (by Covidien – now Medtronic) and VP of Corporate Sales at US Surgical (by Tyco Healthcare – now Medtronic). John also served as VP of US Sales and GM of Global Service Business at Smith+Nephew.
Loren Wass
John Bojanowski
Loren Wass
30+ years of experience in orthopedic and neuro-rehabilitation sales and business development. Loren has held senior commercial leadership roles including most recently as Chief Commercial Officer for Bionik Labs. Prior, he served as VP of Sales for DJO Global, National Sales Director at Ottobock and VP of Sales and Reimbursement for ReWalk Robotics. He served on the Sales Advisory Board for Myomo. He has experience in both public and private companies with a recent focus in young startup rehabilitation robotic companies. Loren has successfully led multiple product launches from pre-FDA clearance to launch and full commercialization. He has built and scaled full commercial organizations utilizing both direct and distributor-based channels.
Client Spotlight
Advisors & Consultants
Sheril Appel
MCD
Sheril serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Neurological Recovery Center and NeuroKinetix Clinic in Fort Worth, TX. Previously she has been the CEO of a HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital (now Encompass Health), Director of Rehab Services of Cook Children's Hospital and Therapy Program Director at RehabCare. From speech-language pathologist to COO, her passion now lies in healthcare leadership, program development and business operations.
Paolo Bonato
Ph.D.
Dr. Bonato serves as Director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, MA. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, and an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. With the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, his emphasis is on wearable technology and robotics.
Alberto Esquenazi
MD
Dr. Esquenazi is the Enterprise SVP Rehabilitation & Post-acute care of Jefferson Health and Chief Medical Officer of Moss Rehab in Elkins Park, PA. He is a member of American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, American Society of Biomechanics Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society and the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics. He was a member of the Task Force on Medical Rehabilitation Research for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Mike Evangelist
MSPT, PT
Mike is the Vice President Clinical Service of JAG Physical Therapy. He specialized in sports medicine rehabilitation and has worked with a variety of different patients, including local high school and elite college athletes, as well as professional soccer, baseball, and lacrosse athletes. His other specialties include neurological and vestibular rehabilitation. Mike is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association.
Marc Filerman
MS
Marc is a Managing Partner at Start2Group, a leading global healthtech and life science competence center, accelerating market entry growth of promising startups. He has over 30 years of healthtech experience incl. co-founding a molecular imaging startup, being CCO of NIH-funded hometech venture, VP Global Marketing at iCAD, Director of Marketing at Smith & Nephew, and Director of Global Marketing and Strategy at Hill-Rom.
Bruce Gans
MD
Dr. Gans is the Chief Policy Officer for the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association (AMRPA). He is the former Executive VP and Chief Medical Officer for the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange, NJ. He is also the past National Medical Director for Rehabilitation for Select Medical. He is board member of Five Star Quality Care, Inc. (NYSE: FVE), a national operator of senior living, assisted living and assisted living, and skilled nursing facilities.
Howard Hillstrom
PhD
Dr. Hillstrom is the Director of the Leon Root Motion Analysis Laboratory at Hospital for Special Surgery, NY and Adjunct Associate Professor of Temple University. He served a principal investigator, co-investigator, or consultant on numerous NIH and NSF research grants and has conducted over 80 funded investigations related to neuromusculoskeletal pathologies. He has also published over 90 peer reviewed manuscripts and 10 book chapters.
Matt Rigby
MSOT
Matt is Chief Commercial Officer at Barrett Medical and previously served as Vice President of Business Development for Bioness. He has held several sales positions at Johnson & Johnson and has served as a board member for multiple non-profit organizations. As an Occupational Therapist with 20+ years medical device sales and clinical experience serving populations with neurological disorders, Matt is a published author in the field of Occupational Therapy Assessment.
Jose A. Tovar Sandoval
MSc
Tovar is a Biomedical Engineer with 10+ years of experience in rehabilitation technology and a strong hybrid profile for both technical and clinical applications. Currently, he is Director of Clinical Education and Technical Service at Movendo. At DIH, Hocoma and TLM Mexico he was Manager of Clinical Applications and Technical Service.
Reagan Simpson
MSc, MBA
Reagan was the National Director of Development at PT Partners, developing strategic physical therapy partnerships. Previously he was President of the Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute in Overland Park, KS and CEO of Rehabilitation Hospitals in Texas and Missouri with Kindred (now LifePoint Health) and PAM Health. Reagan has extensive experience in designing, and operating rehabilitation hospitals including the creation of extensive robotic technology programs.
Joel Sommer
DPT, PT
Dr. Sommer serves as Director of Network Expansion for AposHealth responsible for reimbursement strategies and expanding regional provider networks working with health insurance companies and large physical therapy provider groups. Prior, he held roles in Account Management at Hocoma and worked as a Physical Therapist in the outpatient and homecare setting.
Stacey Woods
OTD, OTR/L
Dr. Woods has 20+ years of clinical experience working with patients in University Hospitals and outpatient clinics in USA, Canada and Australia. For the past 12+ years she was a clinical educator for Neurocatch, Movendo, MindMaze, Tyromotion and Hocoma creating education strategies and developing content for Continuing Education Unit (CEU) seminars, workshops, webinars and product training.
Ronda Taylor
Ronda is the Founder of Kalis Taylor Marketing, a full-service product marketing and graphic design firm working exclusively with life science and medical device companies. Ronda has 20+ years of experience and a track record of defining successful product marketing strategies which increase product adoption and build positive brand awareness. Prior, Ronda worked for start-ups and large medical device companies incl. Smith & Nephew Endoscopy, Hologic, Aspect Medical (Covidien), and Haemonetics.