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Harvard College - B.A. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology - M.S., BioMechanics Josh has thirty years of in-depth experience in research, development, manufacturing, regulatory affairs and general management of medical device companies. Josh started his career as the Vice President of Research and Development for Medi-Tech, which became Boston Scientific, and helped grow that company to 500 employees. Josh then went on to start two of his own companies, including ACT Medical, Inc., an outsourcing resource for medical device companies. He built the company to over $25 million in sales and sold it to a publicly traded company in 2000 for a 160x return on investment. From 2000 to 2003, Josh Tolkoff served as a Partner of Seedling Enterprises, an incubator fund that was created to find and develop early stage medical device concepts to a point of increased value. To date, Seedling has exited three of its investments at a significant gain and has spun off three additional projects as venture-financed companies. Josh is recognized as a leading figure in the medical device community and currently serves on the board of several privately held companies, chaired MassMedic, a 300+ industry trade group, and chairs the advisory board of the Harvard-M.I.T. Health Science & Technology (HST) program. | 