James Pray
President
Mr. Pray joined Penumbra with 17 years experience in the medical device industry, and over 14 years specifically in Neurovascular. Most recently, he was the Director of Marketing for the Neurovascular division of the Boston Scientific Corporation. He led a Neurovascular marketing team that has seen growth from $100 million to over $240 million in sales in the 6 years since the acquisition of Target Therapeutics by Boston Scientific. In addition to his marketing responsibilities, he has been responsible for the business integration of two start up medical companies that Boston Scientific's Neurovascular division has acquired, Smart Therapeutics and Precision Vascular Systems, Inc. Prior to his relocation to California, Mr. Pray worked in product marketing for Boston Scientific on an internal start-up Neurovascular effort. Mr. Pray started his career in Minneapolis as a Research and Development engineer for Scimed Life Systems. He developed and lead the project for the market leading PTCA balloon catheter, and then became the third employee in a Scimed internally funded neurovascular group that developed 5 innovative neuro products. Mr. Pray holds numerous international and domestic patents for medical devices. Mr. Pray has an undergraduate degree in Biology and a graduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.