Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> June 18, 2001

David Chazanovitz – Cambridge Heart (camh)

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: Could we begin with a historical sketch of Cambridge Heart, Inc.,

and then a profile of things as they are now?

Mr. Chazanovitz: The company was founded back in 1990 out of a

technology