Ryan Pierce

Ryan Pierce is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nine, a company focused on maternal and neonatal health technology. He has an extensive background in healthcare innovation, previously serving as the Vice President of Design and Innovation at Ventus Medical and as the Vice President of Business Development at Loma Vista Medical. Additionally, he has experience as a healthcare investor at De Novo Ventures and has worked as a product designer at Concentric Medical and The Foundry/Zephyr Medical.124

In academia, Ryan is a Lecturer in Bioengineering at Stanford University, where he teaches a course on Medical Device Innovation. He is also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Rock Health, which supports digital health startups.13 Ryan holds multiple degrees: a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and Stanford respectively, along with an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is recognized as an inventor on over two dozen U.S. patents, having designed FDA-cleared medical devices aimed at treating conditions such as sleep apnea and stroke.12