Dr. Jay Yadav is the Founder and Chief Executive of CardioMEMS and a consulting cardiologist at the Piedmont Heart Institute. He was the founder of Angioguard (acquired by JNJ) and initial investor and director of SMART Therapeutics (acquired by Boston Scientific). Dr. Yadav is a director of several private medical device and technology companies. He is a member of the Metro Atlanta Bioscience Leadership Council and the American Heart Association; and a Director of Georgia Bio and The Indus Entrepreneurs. Dr. Yadav has authored two books and over two hundred publications and has received numerous honors including the AHA Top Ten Scientific Advances for 2003, Ellis Island Medal of Honor for 2004, Southeast Medical Device Association Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2010 and Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Healthcare (Southern Region) for 2011.