Rafael Cordero is a seasoned executive with over two decades of experience in the medical device industry. He has worked with both large and small organizations, leading risk management efforts and ensuring that designs are focused on the user experience and patient outcomes. Rafael has a background in design thinking, project and program management, quality systems, design controls, voice of the customer, intellectual property and product platform management, and has worked on projects involving disposables, embedded systems, electromechanics, and fluid delivery. He has a track record of hiring and mentoring new technical staff, and is passionate about employee empowerment and professional development. Rafael is particularly skilled at transitioning advanced development output into product development for rapid kickstarts to the concept and pre-clinical phases. He is also adept at deploying design for manufacturability, working with marketing, sales, and service teams, and ensuring that design teams are integrated with manufacturing.

Rafael's expertise and interests include design management, project and program management, quality systems, user experience, patient outcomes, intellectual property, product platform management, disposables, embedded systems, electromechanics, fluid delivery, employee empowerment, professional development, advanced development, product development, design for manufacturability, marketing surveillance, competitive landscape, and brand leadership.