Changes in the Executive Leadership Team at CorTec

Dr. Oliver Bärtl joins CorTec’s Executive Leadership Team as CEO.

CorTec GmbH, a young Medical Device company located in Freiburg, Germany, announced that
Dr. Oliver Bärtl has been named chief executive officer.

Bärtl is an experienced medical device executive with expertise in different market segments and geographies. Most recently, Bärtl served as co-CEO of Henke-Sass, Wolf, a hidden champion in the Medical Device market operating in the fields of Endoscopy and Veterinary. Prior to Henke-Sass, Wolf, Bärtl worked 13 years in different executive management roles for Stryker, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies. Bärtl received his PhD on value based management from the University of Zürich, Switzerland.

“We are pleased to welcome Oliver Bärtl as CorTec’s CEO,” commented Prof. Dr. Klaus Mangold, chairman of the CorTec Advisory Board. “Oliver Bärtl is a highly regarded leader in the medical device industry, with a proven track record of building great businesses and creating shareholder value. We’re confident that Oliver Bärtls vision, operational discipline, and commercial acumen make him the ideal addition to CorTec’s executive leadership team.”

“I am very excited about the opportunity to join CorTec, a company pioneering in the communication with the brain and thereby enabling the development of novel therapies that will ultimately improve the lives of people with neurological dysfunctions” commented Bärtl. “We have an exceptionally strong team, a fantastic technology, and leading-edge products in the pipeline – CorTec is well positioned and poised to make a difference in the neurotechnology space. Priorities for us are to further grow the business and to have the first Brain Interchange® System implanted in a human.”

 

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SPECIFICATIONS

FEATURE 

Recording channels 

Sampling rate 

Sampling dynamic range 

High pass filter cut-off 

Low pass filter cut-off 

Amplifier band pass gain 

Band pass roll-off 

Reference


Stimulation 

Stimulation channels 

Current 

Current source 

Pulse width 

Power supply 

Wireless data transmission 

Closed Loop latency

VALUE

32 

1 kHz 

16 bit (74 nV smallest increment) 

ca. 2 Hz 

325 Hz 

Adjustable: 100-750 

20 dB/dec 

Any (subset) of the recording channels selectable by software or one dedicated hard-wired additional contact 

Current-controlled, biphasic, rectangular, asymmetric stimulus pulses (cathodic amplitude with pulse width followed by an anodic counter pulse of 1/4x amplitude and 4x pulse width) 

 32 

Max. -6 mA / +1.5 mA (24 µA increments) within

 compliance voltage range of -11 V to +5 V 

Can be directed to any of the 32 electrode contacts 

Negative phase: 10 µs – 2,500 µs

Wireless inductive, 120-140 kHz

Bi-directional, radio frequency in 2400-2483.5 MHz band ≤ 40 ms

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