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im Mazzo is a Newport Beach-based Operating Partner. Jim’s 35-year career in the healthcare industry includes seven years as Chairman, President and CEO of Advanced Medical Optics (AMO), which was sold to Abbott Labs in 2009 for $2.8 billion. He was previously with AMO’s parent company, Allergan, for over 20 years in a variety of expanding roles, working and living in the U.S., England, Italy and Canada. He led the spinoff of AMO from Allergan in 2002, expanding the business into a $1 billion industry-leading, publicly-traded corporation. Since 2009, he has served as Senior Vice President, Abbott Laboratories and President, Abbott Medical Optics. In addition, from 2010-2012, Mr. Mazzo served as board chairman of AdvaMed, the world’s largest medical device organization. During his two-year tenure as chair, he led the organization’s efforts to advocate for legal, regulatory and economic environments that advance global health care via patient access to life-changing medical technol
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- • 19 investors at Versant Ventures are tracked.
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