Management Team

Joshua Makower, M.D.
Joshua Makower, M.D. is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ExploraMed, a medical device incubator based on the West Coast and is also a Venture Partner with New Enterprise Associates. 

Dr. Makower serves as a Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and is Co-Founder of Stanford’s Biodesign Innovation Program.

Prior to this, he was Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of TransVascular, Inc. a company focused on the development of a completely catheter-based coronary bypass technology, which was acquired by Medtronic, Inc. in 2003, and Founder and Chairman of EndoMatrix, Inc., a company focused on the development of a novel therapy for incontinence and GI Reflux, which was acquired by C.R. Bard in 1997.  Up until 1995, Dr. Makower was Founder and Manager of Pfizer’s Strategic Innovation Group, a group chartered to create new medical device technologies and businesses for Pfizer’s medical device franchise. 

Dr. Makower holds over four dozen patents for various medical devices in the fields of Cardiology, ENT, General Surgery, Drug Delivery, Orthopaedics and Urology.  Dr. Makower holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from Columbia University, a Doctor of Medicine degree from the New York University School of Medicine, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Dr. Makower also serves as Chairman of the Board for Acclarent, Inc., NeoTract, Inc, Vibrynt, Inc. and Moximed, Inc. – ExploraMed’s most recent spin outs, and on the Board of Directors for Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc. - a venture backed private company developing innovative spinal therapies.

Earl "Eb" Bright
Eb Bright is General Counsel and Vice President, Intellectual Property for ExploraMed. Eb has 15 years of experience as a business advisor and patent attorney. Eb also serves on the executive management teams of Acclarent, Neotract, Vibrynt and Moximed.

Prior to Exploramed, Eb was Director of Intellectual Property West Coast Operations at Guidant Corp.  There he established the legal department for a newly formed division and subsequently directed a 9 member team in the strategic development of over 1300 patent and trademark applications related to numerous technologies. He participated in weekly business development analysts meetings and negotiated licenses and acquisition, consulting, settlement, term sheet and definitive agreements related to equity investments and acquisitions. Eb began his career as a design engineer for the F-16, F-22 and A-12 aircraft.

Eb has been a guest speaker at various intellectual property events, such as the AIPLA’s Mid-Winter Institute, Medtech Insight’s In3, and Ocean Tomo’s Live IP Auction and Conference. Eb holds M.B.A.s from Columbia University and University of California, Berkeley, and Juris Doctorate and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering degrees from the University of Oklahoma. He has earned the Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) designation from the Licensing Executives Society, USA and Canada.