Management Team
Jeff Polack
Vice President, MarketingJeffrey Polack has over 20 of early-stage marketing, clinical and business development experience in the medical device industry. His primary focus has been in cardiovascular and spine markets.
He has co-founded a Palo Alto-based medical technology incubator, Matrix Medical, LLC. Matrix has licensed its intellectual property to two successful start-up device companies in pulmonology and endovascular surgery. Mr. Polack has worked with both major medical device industry companies (Inverness Medical, St. Jude Medical, Thoratec) and early stage to mid-size companies (OrthoKinematics, Axis Surgical, NanoVasc, Possis Medical, Vascular Architects, IntraLuminal, Vascular Control Systems, Skeletal Kinetics and TriVascular).
Mr. Polack's expertise has contributed to strengthening value inflection points for start-up companies through clinical development, clinical evaluation and early commercialization. He has managed multiple product launches, contributing to rapid sales growth. Mr. Polack has developed a global network of key medical device thought leaders in the spine world, which benefit SI-BONE.
Several start up companies, where Mr. Polack consulted or was a marketing executive, were acquired by larger device companies, e.g., Bayer, Johnson and Johnson, Boston Scientific, and and Guidant.
Mr. Polack has a Masters in Business Administration in marketing and finance from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He has a graduate degree in plant physiology from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences and History from St. John's University.
