DR CHARLIE CHI
Updated 283 days ago
Charlie Chi is an innovator, business advisor and serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of management, operations, product development, manufacturing and consulting experience in the medical device and high technology industries. He has raised capital funding ranging from $5k to $5MM from private investors, private equity firms and venture capitalists. Prior to founding his consulting company (DrCharlieChi), Charlie Chi was president, CEO and chairman of the board of OtisMed, a medical device company co-founded by Dr. Chi when he was just 36 to address unmet clinical problems in orthopedics. Just one year after forming OtisMed in 2005, Dr. Chi closed $5 million in Series A funding from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and commercialized the company's first product, Patient Specific Instrument (PSI). By 2007, Dr. Chi was generating positive cash flow for his start-up and, in 2008, led the company to profitability. After effectively creating a unique brand category, in 2009, OtisMed..