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West has been involved at a senior level with six successful new companies in the medical technology field. He was CEO of Polarean prior to its merger with m2m Imaging, and continued as COO of the merged company until his retirement in 2020. Prior to Polarean, West held senior management positions at three other venture-capital backed start-ups, including vice president of sales, marketing and business development at Embrex, Inc. a drug delivery company that went public and then was acquired by Pfizer; COO at VetInsite, a healthcare information technology company that was acquired by MediMedia; and Biolex, a transgenic protein company, where he was a founder and the first president/COO.

West holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.