Bill Niland

Bill Niland is a serial healthcare entrepreneur who has founded and successfully exited four different companies in the healthcare space. Bill is currently the CEO of ReGelTec, Inc. a medical device company bringing a injectable polymer for Degenerative Disc Disease from Startup to commercialization.

Prior to this Mr. Niland co-founded Harpoon Medical, Inc. Harpoon was sold to Edwards Lifesciences for $250M ($100M upfront with $150M in potential milestones) in less than 5 years with only $6.5M of dilutive funding, generating an IRR >100% for investors.

Prior to Harpoon, Mr. Niland founded Vapotherm to commercialize High Flow respiratory therapy technology he invented. Vapotherm has treated over 3 Million patients, went public in 2018 (NYSE:VAPO) Vapotherm HighFlow therapy played an important role in keeping COVID-19 patients off a ventilator.

Mr. Niland also started a sleep diagnostic company in the early 90’s Sleep services of America and grew the largest sleep testing company in the U.S. before selling it to Vital Signs. He holds 35 patents, is an angel investor and sits on multiple medical device company boards.