Robert Ball and David Blue, CEO/CCO of Shoulder Innovations

CEO, Founder, and proud member and connector in the Medtech ecosystem. As CEO of LSI, a global healthcare market research and advisory firm, I support startups, investors, strategics, and professional service companies by providing independent market data/insights to help inform their decisions. I aim to leverage my deep network to connect investors with innovators tackling the world's biggest healthcare challenges. Proud to be the Founder of the US and European Emerging Medtech Summit events which have become the go-to investment & partnering conferences in Medtech. I've managed over 200 consulting and due diligence engagements with companies such as J&J, Medtronic, Abbott, Siemens Healthineers, General Electric, amongst others. Proud and honored to serve as a Board Advisor to several early/growth-stage companies and to advise private investors, family offices, PE firms, and SPACs to identify new opportunities in healthcare.

I help healthcare entrepreneurs, and surgeon entrepreneurs with medical device venture capital, intellectual property guidance, research and development, medical device engineering, medical device development, FDA approvals, and commercialization.

I help healthcare entrepreneurs, and surgeon entrepreneurs gain access to venture capital, intellectual property guidance, research and development, medical device engineering and development, FDA approvals, and commercialization.