VP, Technology and Medtronic Fellow Medtronic
Paul Gerrish serves as Medtronic Tempe Campus Technology Leader with responsibility for site technology development, design environments, new applications, and internal business development. His team develops ultra-low power IC, sensor, and electronic packaging technologies for differentiating size reduction with improved capability and reliability. These technologies enabled the miniaturization achieved in the released Cardiac Rhythm Management Reveal LINQ, LINQ II, and Micra products and beyond across the Cardiovascular, Neuroscience, Diabetes, and Surgical business portfolios at Medtronic.
Paul has been with Medtronic for 38 years, serving in a variety of engineering roles and technology leadership where he made significant contributions to all IC fabrication processes and designs developed internally and with foundries. With the closure of the Medtronic wafer fab in Tempe for making integrated circuits, Paul was instrumental in reframing the fab assets to build sensors and devices that are a differentiator for Medtronic for the future.
Paul has been recognized for his technical contributions as a Technical Fellow, a Bakken Fellow, Medtronic’s highest technical honor, and nationally as an AIMBE Fellow at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He has served as chairman of the Bakken Society and received the CRM Technical Leader of Excellence award for his roles in developing others. He holds 19 US patents, a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico, and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, with an emphasis in solid state physics. He and his wife Cindy live in Phoenix, AZ and enjoy time together with their family and friends.