Our Team Members
Johannes Holfeld, MD
Co-Founder, CEO, CMO
- Cardiac surgeon
- Principal investigator clinical trials
- Numerous publications and scientific awards
Martina Mitrovic
COO, Clin.Eval.-Manager, Head of HR
- MSc in Public Health
- Certified Monitor
- More than 15 years of experience in clinical trials
Michael Kring
CFO
- Finance and Controlling
- Investor Relations
- Many years of experience in the financial management of international companies
Przemyslaw Malinowski
CPO, QMR
- MSc of Engineering
- Certified QMR
- Several decades of experience in the shock wave sector
- Years of experience in development and QM
David Wagner
Director of Sales & Marketing
- Doctor of Economics and Business Administration
- 18 years of experience in the medical device industry in various sales and marketing positions
Claudia Nowak
RA Manager, PRRC, R&D; Engineer
- PhD in Biomedical Engineering
- More than 15 years of experience in medical device development and regulatory affairs
- Experienced medical device consultant
Alexander Plattner
R&D; Engineer, QM
- MSc in medical technologies
Christopher Sanner
R&D; Engineer, QM
- MSc in medical technologies
Philipp Steiner
Medical Affairs, QM
- Medical student
Michael Grimm, MD
Co-Founder
- Director of Cardiac Surgery at the Medical University of Innsbruck
Christian Dorfmüller
Co-Founder
- Graduate physicist
- CEO of STS Systemtechnik Electronic GmbH
- Serial Entrepeneur
Partners
Avenns Medical is 90% owner of STS Systemtechnik Electronic GmbH since fall 2022 and has thus secured in-house production for the long term.
Advisory board
John P. Cooke, MD, PhD
- Joseph C. “Rusty” Walter and Carole Walter Looke Presidential Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Disease Research
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences Chair
- Academic Institute Full Member
- Research Institute Director
- Center for Cardiovascular Regeneration Medical Director
- Center for RNA Therapeutics Houston Methodist
Paul Yock, MD
- Paul Yock is the Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine, Emeritus and founding co-chair of Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering.
- Founding Director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.
- Is known for his work in inventing, developing, and testing new devices, including the Rapid Exchange ™ stenting and balloon angioplasty system, which is now the primary system in use worldwide.
- He also invented ultrasound imaging and founded Cardiovascular Imaging Systems (CVIS).
MMag. Dr. Oliver Ginthör
- Oliver Ginthör studied business administration and law in Vienna, Angers (France) and China.
- Tax consultant
- Member of the board of numerous private foundations
- Managing director and supervisory board member in various companies
- Lecturer and author of numerous publications
- Cardiac surgeon
- Principal investigator clinical trials
- Numerous publications and scientific awards
- Graduate physicist
- CEO of STS Systemtechnik Electronic GmbH
- Serial Entrepeneur
- Experience in technical verification, clinical evaluation and patent matters
- Monitor for clinical studies on countless projects
- Previous technical experience at production and control
- Business Development and Communications
- Fundraising
- extensive experience in human resources and general management
- Certified QMB
- Years of experience in development and QM
- Since several decades in the shock wave sector
- Master student of medical technology
- Master student of medical technology
- Project staff USA
- Student employee
- Student employee
- Serial Entrepeneur
- years of experience in quality management
- Cooperation and consulting of medical device companies all over the world
- Leiter Universitätsklinik für Herzchirurgie
- Medizinische Universität Innsbruck
- Joseph C. “Rusty” Walter and Carole Walter Looke Presidential Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Disease Research
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences Chair
- Academic Institute Full Member
- Research Institute Director
- Center for Cardiovascular Regeneration Medical Director
- Center for RNA Therapeutics Houston Methodist
- Paul Yock is the Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine, Emeritus and founding co-chair of Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering.
- Founding Director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.
- Is known for his work in inventing, developing, and testing new devices, including the Rapid Exchange ™ stenting and balloon angioplasty system, which is now the primary system in use worldwide.
- He also invented ultrasound imaging and founded Cardiovascular Imaging Systems (CVIS).
- Oliver Ginthör studied business administration and law in Vienna, Angers (France) and China.
- Tax consultant
- Member of the board of numerous private foundations
- Managing director and supervisory board member in various companies
- Lecturer and author of numerous publications