Ben joined the five other medical and medical device experts on the FemPulse Advisory Board, after previously advising the founders informally. Ben is an MIT-educated engineer, who has become a leading medical device executive and innovator in Silicon Valley over the past 30 years. Ben has served as Vice President of product development at Ventritex (implantable defibrillators, acquired by St. Jude Medical), Vice President of R&D for Pacesetter, CTO/COO of NeuroPace (responsive electrical stimulation for epilepsy), and most recently CEO of Autonomic Technologies (neurostimulation for headache). He has served on the boards of numerous medical companies, including Inspire Medical Systems, Angelmed, and Proteus Digital Health. He serves on the board of the recently-launched Neurotechnology Innovations Translator (NIT) formed in collaboration with over a dozen partners, with a mission to develop and commercialize pioneering neurotechnology solutions. Ben is a named inventor on over 100 patents and patent applications.