Charles
S. Taylor Founds EoPlex
Technologies, Inc.
Entrepreneur & Former
Senior Executive of
Guidant Corporation
forms Company to exploit
new manufacturing technology.
Redwood City, January 3, 2001 – Charles S. Taylor founds another new start-up company, EoPlex Technologies, Inc., the creator of a new manufacturing process based on proprietary High Volume Print Forming (HVPF™).
Charles S. Taylor, Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Technical Officer, was formerly Vice President, Technology of the CardioThoracic Systems, Inc. (CTS) subsidiary of Guidant Corporation. Mr. Taylor is a highly successful entrepreneur, inventor, engineer, and manager with over 20 years experience. He was the founder, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of CTS, the pioneer and leader in off-pump cardiac surgery. Mr. Taylor started the Company in his garage and took it through venture funding, and a successful IPO, as well as growing annual revenues to nearly $30 million prior to selling the company to Guidant in 1999.
Prior to CTS, Mr. Taylor held research and development positions at Heartport, a developer of devices and procedures for minimally invasive cardiac surgery. Previously, he managed the establishment of a new development group for Eli Lilly’s Medical Instrument Systems division, the Technology Development Center, developing surgical devices for vascular intervention procedures. Before that he was an Engineer and Manager for Advanced Cardiovascular Systems (ACS) where he directed teams of engineers developing new manufacturing technologies and custom research and development equipment. This was the genesis of his interest in the development of small complex shapes and manufacturing technology to produce such shapes. Also at ACS, Mr. Taylor was involved in product invention and design. He is an inventor on over 50 patents. Since leaving Guidant/CTS, Mr. Taylor also founded Nellix, Inc., a start-up medical device company developing next-generation endografts for the treatment of aortic aneurysms.
About EoPlex
EoPlex Technologies is a private firm located in Redwood City that has developed proprietary systems for the production of commercial volumes of complex structures. The firm’s HVPF TM process allows it to create and mass produce complex 3D structures from combinations of metals, ceramics, and polymers for applications such as: thermal management, sensors, microstructures, medical devices, biosensors, and electronic/optical packaging.