David Lown General Manager

Mr. David W. Lown has more than 8 years of experience specific to the orthopedic industry and currently serves as General Manager for Musculoskeletal Clinical and Regulatory Advisers, LLC (MCRA). Mr. Lown is responsible for the operational execution and growth of MCRA’s 5 service areas (regulatory, clinical, reimbursement, intellectual property, and quality assurance). Mr. Lown joined the firm in August 2006.

Prior to joining MCRA, Mr. Lown has been employed at Viscogliosi Brothers, LLC (VB), the first and premier merchant banking firm focused on the orthopedic industry. Mr. Lown has worked both for VB’s merchant banking initiatives and as an operating employee within 3 of its portfolio companies. For VB’s merchant banking initiatives, Mr. Lown has worked on the company’s 6 venture funds performing portfolio company investment due diligence, financial and fund analysis, and both US and international deal structuring and transaction execution. Furthermore, Mr. Lown has been responsible in the creation of VB’s 5 most recent company creations: Spine Solutions, Inc. (1999), Paradigm Spine, LLC (2004), Small Bone Innovations, Inc. (2004), and Musculoskeletal Clinical and Regulatory Advisers, LLC (2004) and Surgisoft, LLC (2006). Lastly, Mr. Lown has been responsible for oversight of VB’s principal investments, including Spine Next, SA and Raymedica, Inc.

From an operational standpoint, Mr. Lown’s most recent position has been as Director, Corporate Finance for Small Bone Innovations when he joined the company in August 2004. Mr. Lown was responsible for identifying and structuring mergers and acquisitions, licensing and other corporate-partnering activities, and as such assisted the CEO in the completion of 17 transactions in a two year period. Additionally, Mr. Lown managed a team of upwards of 7 analysts responsible for the company’s financial projections, M&A due diligence, intellectual property, internal analytics, and industry research/competitive intelligence. Mr. Lown also served as a Financial Analyst for Spine Solutions, Inc., the developer of the ProDisc® Lumbar & Cervical total disc technologies that were sold to Synthes, Inc. for $350 million in April 2003.

Mr. Lown graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.