John Kowalczyk

Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. manufactures and distributes medical devices. Its products include tracheal tube introducers and guides, pleural catheter with flexible introducer, CADD-solid ambulatory infusion pump, MEDEX accessories, continuous caudal and pediatric epidural trays, SPECTRO2 30 pulse oximeter, C-fuser pressure infuser, and coach 2 incentive spirometer. The firm specialty care areas include adult critical care, cardiology, emergency medicine, general anesthesia, homecare, oncology, and pain management. The company was founded by S. A. Leader in 1940 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.