Ben Hertzog, Ph.D., is Chief Executive Officer at Intelligent Implants. In 2020, Intelligent Implants welcomed Dr. Hertzog as an independent Director and Chairman of the Board. He stepped into the CEO position in 2021. Dr. Hertzog is an experienced medical device entrepreneur with a background in management consulting, venture capital, company formation and medical device innovation. From 2019 to the beginning of 2022, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence with Johnson & Johnson’s Center for Device Innovation at the Texas Medical Center (CDI@TMC). Prior to CDI, Dr. Hertzog was the founding CEO of Procyrion, an interventional cardiology startup focused on acutely decompensated heart failure and cardiorenal syndrome.