Tim Hopper

Mr. Hopper has over 30 years of operating experience within the medical device and healthcare industry. He has held increasing responsibility in sales, marketing, and executive leadership positions for large multinational medical device manufacturing companies such as Medtronic, Covidien/Tyco Healthcare, and Teleflex. After 15 years within large corporate environments, Mr. Hopper pursued his entrepreneurial passion and began working within the local NC startup ecosystem. He took an ownership and leadership position within a small medical device design/development/manufacturing firm, GILERO, to build a long-term growth strategy. While there, he created and co-founded Infield Medical, a medical device accelerator focused on low to mid-tech medical devices that have a defined regulatory approval path (Class I/II 510(k)) and a high likelihood of revenue generation and/or strategic exit within two years. 623 Medical (makers of nüm) was created and spun into a self-standing revenue-generating organization.

After a tragic accident left his youngest son with a spinal cord injury (SCI) in 2016, he became involved in the neuro-rehab/neuromodulation space. Access to neuro-rehab technologies is limited in the USA, so working with a European-based robotic rehabilitation company, he built a US footprint to import these products to the US to help people suffering from neurological deficits like his son.

He is now focused on assisting startups with their commercialization and strategic plans for novel healthcare technologies that make a difference in people’s lives.

Mr. Hopper holds a BBA in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA in Entrepreneurship from the Babson College F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. He resides in Raleigh with his wife of 30 years and has three older children who graduated from local NC universities. He volunteers locally, including his board seat on NextStep Raleigh, an affordable, state-of-the-art, community-based paralysis recovery and fitness center.