Mara McFadden

Endolumik, CEO

Bio

Mara McFadden is the Chief Executive Officer at Endolumik. She is serving as an Entrepreneur in Residence for the CMU Portugal Life Sciences Gateway program.

With a deep background in medical device engineering and product management, Mara McFadden’s career has spanned industry giants like Johnson & Johnson and Philips Healthcare. She has also taken some interesting turns, including a detour into consumer tech.

After graduating as a mechanical engineer from the University of California at Berkeley, Mara found herself in Johnson & Johnson’s innovative Global Operations Leadership Development program — a fortuitous start providing her extensive business exposure. From there, she moved on to their Cordis division, which allowed her to learn the world of endovascular stent manufacturing. 

After earning an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, Mara transitioned into a product management role at Philips Healthcare. The position gave her the opportunity to manage a global P&L and launch various products, thus honing her skills in the business side of medtech.

Mara then pivoted to a consumer products startup called 4Moms. This presented Mara with the perfect chance to dabble in entrepreneurship. She built their product management group, led multiple commercial launches,s and garnered a lot of direct-to-consumer business experience. It was a rewarding venture, yet Mara felt the draw of medtech, where she could create products that had the potential to save lives. Turning back to the medical device space, she advised a few small startups and worked with a medtech incubator, where she met her co-founder, with whom they started Endolumik.