Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> December 30, 1999

Nancy Briefs – Percardia Inc

Nancy M. Briefs is President and Founding CEO of Percardia, Inc., which was incubated at Itasca Ventures in Minneapolis and founded in March 1998 and established headquarters in New Hampshire for this Delaware Corp. Since establishing the company she has raised over $32 million in equity financing to support device development and feasibility testing. Ms. Briefs recruited a world-class Scientific Advisory Board, expanded the intellectual property portfolio and hired the senior management team. Her background includes 20 plus years in the medical device industry building shareholder value by raising both venture and public financing, developing and commercializing innovative paradigm shifting technologies at companies such as: Vista Medical Technologies, Stryker Corp. and Target Therapeutics. She earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Golden Gate University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Emporia State University, Kansas. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief history of the company, of how

it got put together?

Ms. Briefs: The company, which was founded in 1998, is a venture

backed startup. To date we have raised