Gerardo Noriega, President & CEO at PercAssist

Gerardo is a C-Level executive, serial entrepreneur, inventor, and scholar in the medical device industry. Gerardo founded five medical device companies and is a consultant to over 50 medical device companies in the Silicon Valley area. Gerardo is an advisory board member of the Santa Clara University (SCU) BioE, the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) Catalyst Program, the UCSF Surgical Consortium, and the Simon Fraser University Bioengineering Innovation Blvd. He is also an adjunct professor at the SCU graduate school of bioengineering. As a serial entrepreneur, Gerardo identifies unmet clinical needs, assesses new business opportunities worldwide, and develops new technologies with strong Intellectual property rights. His hands-on experience resides in bringing new technologies from inception to full commercialization under a “vision and execution” type of approach.Gerardo’s unique proximity to Silicon Valley provides a wealth of opportunities for innovation, like no other place in the world. He is always on the quest for the next frontier to improve clinical therapies and reduce healthcare costs. Gerardo has a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the San Jose State University.