Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> December 30, 1999

David Chazanovitz – Cambridge Heart Inc

DAVID CHAZANOVITZ joined Cambridge Heart in October 2000 with 28 years experience in sales, marketing and general management of medical products businesses, ranging from early stage device companies to larger, more established businesses. He has been active in developing products, marketing and selling to many different medical specialties including electrophysiology, interventional cardiology and radiology, pediatric cardiology, gastroenterology, and general surgery. For the past five years Mr. Chazanovitz has worked as a Divisional President for NMT Medical, initially with total responsibility for establishing a startup effort to develop a new cardiac technology and more recently as President of their Neurosciences Division. Mr. Chazanovitz has also held the position of President for several divisions of C.R. Bard, Inc., including Bard Ventures, Bard Electrophysiology Division and USCI Angiography Division. Mr. Chazanovitz earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from City College of New York and an MBA in Marketing from Long Island University. Profile
TWST: Would you start us off with a capsule summary of Cambridge

Heart?

Mr. Chazanovitz: Cambridge Heart has been a public company since

1996 but it was really formed in the early 1990s. At