Triple Ring Technologies and Aubrey Group Announce Strategic Partnership

 

PALO ALTO, CA – October 2, 2007 Triple Ring Technologies, a Palo Alto-based provider of early-stage advanced research and development services, and Aubrey Group, Inc., a Southern California contract engineering and manufacturing firm specializing in the development of medical devices, today announced a strategic partnership. This agreement will allow the two organizations to offer a full range of technology development services from concept through manufacturing to startup, early-stage, and established medical device and life sciences companies.

 

Through the strategic partnership, the two organizations will be able to provide medical device and life science companies with a coordinated, seamless transfer between phases of a development project, reducing risk, and speeding time to market. The partnership will ensure that proper focus is given to critical issues throughout the project, and eliminate the chance for miscommunications that often occur between non-coordinated development teams during project handoffs. Both companies have extensive startup experience. Triple Ring delivers best-of-breed technical capabilities, including systems engineering, physics, optics, data analysis and algorithm development, while Aubrey Group provides extensive experience in the design and manufacture of electromechanical, implantable, disposable, and fluid processing products and systems.

 

Together, the companies will offer a choice to medical device entrepreneurs who want to get their company’s product to market quickly without investing the time and resources to build a development team from scratch. Such entrepreneurs can now work confidently with one entity on all aspects of a development project, from building a prototype and clinical proof of concept through the production of initial commercial units.

 

“We’ve been looking for the company with the right values and capabilities to complement Aubrey Group’s strengths,” according to Vytas Pazemenas, CEO of Aubrey Group. “Triple Ring shares our commitment to a close working relationship with its clients and our approach of using the talents of exceptionally creative, experienced engineers to meet the challenges presented in developing exciting new products that span a diverse set of medical device and biotech applications.”

 

Joe Heanue, President of Triple Ring, believes the strategic partnership will provide significant leverage to companies who want to explore a virtual business model. “Aubrey Group is a strong partner that allows us to leverage our strengths farther down the development path and into manufacturing. We’re excited by the depth of experience that Aubrey brings to this partnership,” he said.

 

Added Adam Deitz, President and CEO of Ortho Kinematics, Inc., a Triple Ring client, “This partnership provides a new, fresh alternative for companies like ours. Most product development firms aren’t able to handle early stage advanced development. With Triple Ring and Aubrey Group together, we can work with one entity throughout the process without having to introduce new players and bring them up to speed on our work.”

 

 

 

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About Aubrey Group

Founded in 1994, Aubrey Group, Inc. is located in Irvine, California, with a business development office in Northern California. Aubrey Group employs a staff of 57, with more than 40 engineers in its 43,000 sq. ft. facility. The company provides services for the design and manufacturing of electrochemical, electromechanical, and disposable medical devices. They have developed ultrasound ablation systems, RF ablation systems, blood pumps, DNA identification systems, blood processing systems, and ventricular assist systems. Services include product concept development, systems engineering, electronic, software, and mechanical engineering, industrial design, rapid prototyping, FDA submission assistance, and contract manufacturing. Aubrey Group has Class 100,000 clean room facilities, three engineering laboratories, and a fully equipped machining and fabrication lab. Aubrey Group is an FDA-registered developer and manufacturer of medical devices and is ISO 13485:2003 certified. The company website is www.aubreygroup.com.

 

 

About Triple Ring Technologies

Triple Ring Technologies is a provider of advanced research and development services located in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2005, the company has a passion for finding simple solutions to complex problems spanning, science, technology, and business. The Triple Ring Team has worked together for over ten years and includes senior professionals with extensive experience in medical device and life science technologies. Triple Ring brings a highly collaborative approach to the early stage development process. Clients include investors, entrepreneurs, and established companies in the medical device, life sciences, industrial instrumentation, optics, and digital imaging fields. The company can be website is www.tripleringtech.com

 

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For more information, contact:

Triple Ring Technologies:

Joe Heanue, President

jheanue@tripleringtech.com

(650) 331-3476x100

 

Aubrey Group:

Steve Maylish, Director, Business Development & Planning

stevem@aubreygroup.com

(949) 581-0188 x223