Ray Williams: CV’s Founding Father

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Ray Williams, who passed away this summer, was a seminal figure in interventional cardiology, a founder and investor in companies from Advanced Cardiovascular Systems to Target Therapeutics, Ventritex to DVI. Other serial entrepreneurs may be better known, but no one had the kind of influence and impact on the cardiovascular device industry that Williams did.

Brook Byers, one of the Bay Area’s leading venture capitalists, once said of Ray Williams that he was almost single-handedly responsible for starting a whole new medical device industry in Silicon Valley.

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