Harold Wodlinger

Harold Wodlinger is a consultant to the medical device industry (now semi-retired).  He has more than forty years of experience in product development, operations, sales, and management, and a proven track record in strategic planning, business development, and due diligence.  

Harold is Chair of the Board of Exact Imaging (prostate cancer imaging). Six previous board positions resulted in successful exits.  He is a mentor with the Creative Destruction Lab and with the Health Technology Exchange and was formerly Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto where he taught a graduate course in Medical Product Development.  He has performed more than thirty due diligence studies for venture capitalist and angel investors.  He directed product development at ViTAA Medical (aortic aneurysm diagnosis and therapy), SoundBite Medical Solutions (device to penetrate chronic total occlusions in cardiac and peripheral arteries), CardioInsight Technologies (non-invasive cardiac mapping), and MyndTec Inc (stroke rehabilitation).

Prior to becoming a consultant, Harold founded Biomedical Instrumentation Inc, a company that developed and manufactured equipment in the field of cardiac electrophysiology.  The company sold more than 500 systems in 20 countries and was acquired by the Quinton Instrument Company of Seattle.

Harold holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto.