Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization 
Gravitas Healthcare
Location Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
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Mr. Navarro is a founder of Gravitas Healthcare, LLC, a strategic advisory firm based in Greenwich, CT and San Francisco, and focused exclusively on emerging medical device companies, advising on transactions, strategic fund raising amd M&A. In addition to Arstasis, Mr. Navarro has served on the Boards of four other medical device companies:
MicroTherapeutics, Jomed, Photomedex, and Fixes-4-Kids, as well as non-profit foundations and one non-medical company, Pixelux Entertainment.
From 2005 through 2008, Mr. Navarro served as a Managing Director and Global Head of Medical Technology Investment Banking at Cowen & Company. From 1998 through 2001, he was Global Head of Healthcare Investment Banking at ING Barings, and prior to that, he was Senior Medical Technology Research Analyst at UBS, Furman Selz and Needham & Company. He also ran a large NYC based hedge fund’s healthcare portfolio from 2001 to 2005.
Mr. Navarro was awarded an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a Master in engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelors degree in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
