Michael Gandy serves as Chief Financial Officer for DDC. Mike brings extensive industry experience, combined with a strategic mindset and strong leadership to DDC, with over 30 years of experience with rapidly growing technology companies with a heavy emphasis in the MedTech sector. Mike has significant experience with both publicly and privately held companies, holding key roles in major transactions including corporate partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. Mike has had significant involvement in all aspects of a private equity and venture-backed technology companies, including financing, strategic planning, commercial operations, manufacturing, accounting and administration.
With broad operational foundations in Marketing, Strategic Planning, Cost Accounting, Human Resources, and Information Systems, Mike works effectively across traditional functional boundaries. Mike brings great value by integrating his financial management expertise and breaking down organizational impediments to better achieve financial and operating objectives.
Mike has held executive leadership positions with several venture funded, developmental stage companies. He has served as Chief Financial Officer of Invuity, as well as of Novasys Medical, a company focused on improving women’s health, leading up to and through its acquisition by Roper Industries in December 2012. Prior to Novasys, Mike served as the CFO of Baxano, a San Jose-based spinal device company, where he had broad functional responsibility for finance and accounting, including oversight of venture funding activities. Mike also served as Vice President, Finance and CFO at privately held Bacchus Vascular, leading the finance and accounting groups leading up to the successful acquisition of the company by Covidian in 2009. Prior to that role, he held positions in financial management at a number of private and public companies, including nine years of increasing financial management at a division of NYSE-traded Guidant Corporation.
Mike holds a B.S. in Finance from California State University, Long Beach, and earned his M.B.A. from California State University, Fullerton.