观看视频 of KEDCO CEO Alan Tio with 点燃骨科 President & 首席执行官兼联合创始人Brian Hodorek.
KEDCO CEO Alan Tio recently sat down with Brian Hodorek, President & 首席执行官兼联合创始人 点燃骨科, to learn about Brian’s journey as a local entrepreneur, the story of 点燃骨科.
布莱恩三岁时从密歇根州搬到这个地区. And with Warsaw being the Orthopedic Capital of the World® it’s no surprise that 整形外科 is what brought Brian and his family to the area. 布莱恩的爸爸开始和季默合作的时候, 他记得他爸爸带回家锯过的骨头, pieces and parts of what he was working on––Brian was intrigued from the very beginning in early childhood.
He went on to receive an engineering degree from Purdue University, gained experience through summer internships with Zimmer, 专注于髋部和创伤. “这是一次不可思议的经历，”布莱恩说.
After graduation, he joined the team at Zimmer full time, worked in extremities. 布莱恩只是四肢部的三号工程师, he laughed and referenced that department at the time as the “red headed stepchild.” Brian added that little did he know, it was on the cusp of exploding.
Brian continued his journey in 整形外科, went on to work at Tornier. It was a small environment with just a handful of engineers, it allowed him to cut his teeth on more innovative and exploratory work. He went on to lead research and development efforts locally, for the U.S. And that’s when Brian met co-founder of Ignite, Matt Purdy.
In April of 2017, Brian and Matt launched 点燃骨科. Brian通过分享来描述开始, “当你有一个传统的创业公司, 通常你是有想法的, a patent or some cutting edge technology…we ended up starting with good people.”
They intentionally connected with good, those first people were surgeons.
They started with a radial head implant, a simple implant for the elbow. And it was because they noticed a problem with the current systems. “A very busy radial head surgeon might do 12 a year,布莱恩说. “如果你一个月做一次手术, you probably need to read about the technique beforehand to even remind yourself how to do this because it’s been so long since you’ve done one. So the concept of creating busier and more complicated systems, 当外科医生做的很少时，这真的没有意义.”
Ignite团队走的是相反的方向. “We created a simple procedure and implant and then designed a single use sterile kit that had just a peel open top like a Lunchable,布莱恩说.
它被约翰逊收购了 & 约翰逊，2019年6月.
Around that time, Ignite had begun working on a shoulder system for stemless arthroplasty. The team saw a challenge and an opportunity here as well. Because of the unknowns surgeons face once they’ve opened the patient, 为了适应意外情况, the scope of what needed to be brought in for the procedure was huge and burdensome for hospitals. 所以Ignite从头开始创建了一个系统.
“We saw an opportunity to streamline what was being used or potentially needed, 通过从头开始建立一个系统,布莱恩说. 他们建立的系统被称为无茎优先方法, 而且它是外科医生可以转换的，很容易使用. “We’ve dubbed it Fifth Generation Arthroplasty,” Hodorek said.
约翰逊 & 约翰逊 acquired this technology as well, Ignite is designing and developing in real time.
Brian expressed his gratitude more than once for mentorship and support from Rod Mayer and Terry Schlotterback of extremity Solutions公司. “他们真的团结起来支持我们，”布莱恩说.
They offered not only guidance, but incubation space and operations support. Ignite在extremity待了2年.5 years before settling in to their location at 700 Park Ave in Winona Lake.
Tio emphasized that support opportunities like this help people [entrepreneurs] find their way in the community faster. It helps remove some of the “scariness” factor of launching and growing a business.
Ignite Ortho is just weeks away from its five-year anniversary. 虽然已经不是创业公司了, 作为一家年轻的公司, Brian feels they are “riding the waves” of entrepreneurship. 以及他的团队, along with many other entrepreneurs and industry professionals in the community, are here to support other aspiring entrepreneurs and startups on their journeys.
A piece of advice Brian shared for someone toying with the idea of starting a business is to plan as if you’re going to succeed beyond your wildest dreams.
KEDCO是一个帮助企业家做到这一点的资源. 科修斯科山县 is rooted in entrepreneurship and innovation, KEDCO along with other business and community leaders, are rallying around entrepreneurs to help them find their way in 科修斯科山县.
