Management Team

Eric M. Reuter joined Satiety as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director in May 2008.  Prior to joining Satiety, he served on the board of directors of Insound Medical.  From June 1999 until August 2006 Eric was President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Laserscope, a publicly traded medical device company that was sold to American Medical Systems.  Eric joined Laserscope as Vice-President, Research and Development in September 1996. Before joining Laserscope, from February 1994 to August 1996, Eric was employed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford University (SLAC) as the Project Engineer for the B-Factory High Energy Ring, an electron storage ring used for high-energy physics research. From February 1991 to January 1994, he served as a senior staff engineer and program manager in digital imaging at Siemens Medical Systems — Oncology Care Systems, a medical device company.  Eric has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering from UC Davis.

Rachel joined Satiety in August 2006 as Vice President of Marketing. Prior to joining Satiety, she was an entrepreneur-in-residence with four venture capital firms evaluating medical device business opportunities. Prior to that she held several positions in product management, business development, reimbursement and eventually as Vice President of Marketing at Curon Medical. Before entering the medical device industry, Rachel spent 5 years in equity research and corporate finance focused on health care companies at Lehman Brothers and Robertson Stephens & Company. Rachel holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.

Bob has over 22 years experience in the medical device field. He started with Cordis Corporation as a manufacturing engineer in the pacemaker division, and held various positions within Operations and Product Development. From there he was one of the first employees, with the start-up Ventritex. Robert helped develop the Ventritex implantable defibrillator and built the manufacturing organization to over 300 employees, leading them through an IPO and eventual sale to St. Jude Corporation. After Ventritex Robert went to Avocet Medical to help launch a blood coagulation meter, a product that required high volume manufacturing of meters, disposable strips and chemistry. Robert has been at Satiety since 2003. He has a Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

John is currently Vice President of Research and Development at Satiety. He has been leading product development groups for over 25 years in the fields of cardiology, gastroenterology, and surgery. He holds a number of issued patents and other publications in these fields. Prior to Satiety, John was Vice President of R&D at Curon Medical, a developer of devices for treating gastroesophageal reflux and incontinence, and at Medtronic CardioRhythm, a developer of cardiac ablation systems. John has also held R&D management and senior engineering positions of increasing responsibility at Guidant, Inc. and at Baxter Healthcare. John holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.