Vinod Mahendroo

Mr. Mahendroo is CEO of Vitruvian Medical Devices, an early stage start-up developing medical devices and therapeutics focused on the wound care market, founded by two UCSF professors and surgeons. He is also an active Lifesciences Angel Investor with 15 investments in companies ranging from advanced medical devices to CAR-T cell therapeutics. He is a founding Board member of Flock Software, Inc., member of the Band of Angels, Sierra Angels & Life Science Angels, and has served on the Board of Investment Groups (Life Science Angels), Private Companies and Non-Profits (The Tech, San Jose, CA). He has been CEO of two VC-backed start- ups & COO of a third one (all achieved liquidity), raised over $50M in VC and strategic funding, and is an active mentor at StartX at Stanford University. He previously worked at Applied Materials, as Chief Marketing Officer and President of the Global Services Business Unit, at Chips and Technologies as Head of Marketing, and at Intel, in Marketing and Operational roles across different product lines. He has extensive experience in marketing technology products in global markets, and in all parts of revenue generation from market exploration and product definition to early sales, scale up, managing the supply chain, manufacturing, distribution and service. Mr. Mahendroo has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a winner of the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni award.