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John Abele faced many challenges throughout his career, including the FDA’s rejection of Boston Scientific’s first product and the company’s struggle to survive during the 1980s. However, Abele persevered and helped lead Boston Scientific to become one of the most successful medical device companies in the world.
Boston Scientific founder John Abele has been party to his share of groundbreaking innovations over the years. But the revolutionary advances in medical science that these breakthroughs brought about were not the efforts of one firm alone, let alone one inventor. Abele tells two fascinating stories …
John E. Abele (born 1937) is an American businessman, and the co-founder and a director of Boston Scientific, a medical device company. He was awarded the ASME Medal in 2010. As of May 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$640 million. He was first a billionaire on the Forbes 400 list in 1996, but
9 de jun. de 2010 · John Abele: A little bit of yes and no. In the very early days the predecessor to Boston Scientific was a company called Medi-tech, located in Watertown, Mass. Medi-tech started in the late 60s ...
5 de may. de 2015 · John Abele, co-founder of Boston Scientific, has held many titles throughout his life--founder, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and chairman. But he has long thought of himself first and foremost as an educator. In fact, it was Abele's love of educating others that tied him to the job of medical device sales early on in his career.
20 de oct. de 2016 · The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) bestowed the fourth annual AdvaMed Lifetime Achievement Award to Boston Scientific co-founders John Abele and Pete Nicholas, for their work in helping to build one of the world’s largest medical device manufacturers and for their pioneering work in promoting minimally-invasive medical technologies.
Abele majored in physics and philosophy at Amherst. He graduated in 1959 and went on to work for Advanced Instruments, Inc., before serving as president of MEDITECH (Medical Information Technology, Inc.) from 1970 to 1983. Abele co-founded Boston Scientific with Peter Nicholas in 1979, with the goal of developing technologies to make medical ...
