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Vertebration, Inc. was founded out of a conceptual business plan developed by a team of Executive MBA students from The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business, which included Dr. Henry Fabian as one of the team members. The plan was recognized as the 2004 Deloitte Business Plan Competition Winner at the Fisher College of Business and was later featured as the November 2004 cover story of Fortune Small Business Magazine, as the winner of their national business plan competition.

The co-founders and management team have since moved this plan from a concept into an emerging business focused on minimally invasive spine technology. By leveraging the initial funding from the business plan competitions, the team began product design and development in December 2004. In April of 2007, Vertebration, Inc. received FDA 510K approval for the XYcor™ Spinal Implant. Vertebration has initiated the process of a limited launch of the XYcor Spinal Implant and continues to build the company’s product pipeline which includes continued expansion of the XYcor™ Spinal Implant Family and additional innovative spinal solutions focused on MIS based procedures.

The Directors of Vertebration’s leadership team includes the following members.

Henry Fabian, Jr. M.D., Chief Executive Officer

As a co-founder of Vertebration, Fabian was a member of the original team which conceived the award winning business plan that serves as the foundation for Vertebration. Dr. Fabian is a practicing orthopedic spinal surgeon with over 18 years of experience in spinal implant development. He is the founder and current director of the Spine Center of Steamboat Springs, CO and the previous medical director of the Ohio Spine Institute in Cleveland, Ohio. Fabian earned an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University. While he was working on his master's degree in biomedical engineering at Ohio State University, he was employed by Danninger Medical Technologies, Inc. developing spinal implants. The engineering work in spine served as a catalyst to earn his M.D. from the Medical College of Ohio and complete spine fellowships in both Denver and Hannover, Germany. Dr. Fabian earned his MBA from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business.

Richard P. Karr, President and Chief Operating Officer

As a co-founder of Vertebration, Karr was a member of the original team which conceived the award winning business plan that serves as the foundation for Vertebration. Mr. Karr’s career spans both the software and medical device industry. He started his career with NCR Corporation, followed by an eight and half year tenure with Microsoft Corporation serving in channel marketing management and major account executive roles. Karr’s experience with start-ups and growing business operations came with work with various stage Microsoft partners and serving as Director of Product Marketing for XPrime, Poway, California, funded by Enterprise Venture Partners and as Director of Business Development, Affiliated, Dublin, Ohio . Mr. Karr received his MBA and BS from The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business. He has earned a Certificate in Medical Device Product Development from the University of California – Irvine and in 2004 received the designation as a Certified Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute. In April 2007, Karr was named by “Ohio Bioscience 30 in Their 30s,” a list of noteworthy individuals excelling in the bioscience arena. He advises several Ohio emerging medical device companies.