Commercialization for medical technology

Your technology works. Adoption is a different problem.

We find the part of your commercial system that is preventing customers from adopting — then build and run the fix alongside your team.

Stellar Business Awards

Best Healthcare & Medical Technology Consulting in the United States

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson Wound Management Starion Instruments Microline Surgical Medela

Is this you

If you've said one of these out loud in the last quarter, we should talk.

We're cleared. I just don't think anyone here has actually launched something like this before.

Pre-launch

Then the risk isn't the launch — it's what the launch is built on. The components nobody owns yet are the ones that decide whether the first fifty accounts adopt or stall.

Every deal we win feels like we won it by force.

Launched, but flat

Then the process isn't producing the outcome — individuals are. Survivable at five accounts, fatal at fifty, because it can't be hired against or forecast to a board.

We're hitting the number, but it's costing more every quarter to hit it.

Growing, expensively

Then you're paying for growth you should be earning. Rising SG&A alongside rising revenue almost always means a component isn't working and headcount is absorbing it.

The misdiagnosis

Three problems you're chasing separately. One cause.

In most companies the symptoms are real, the departments are working hard, and every one of them is downstream of the same thing.

SALES Quota attainment is falling MARKETING Pipeline grows, conversion doesn't PRODUCT Roadmap keeps chasing lost deals ROOT CAUSE · ONE COMPONENT The economic case for switching was never built — so nobody owns it. FOUND IN THE BRIDGEAUDIT™ — NOT IN THE PIPELINE REVIEW
  • Sales

    Quota attainment is falling

  • Marketing

    Pipeline grows, conversion doesn't

  • Product

    Roadmap keeps chasing lost deals

Root cause · one component

The economic case for switching was never built — so nobody owns it.

Found in the BridgeAudit™ — not in the pipeline review

This is why the obvious fix keeps failing. Each department treats the symptom it can see, the cost of the real gap keeps compounding, and four quarters later the chart looks the same. Commercialization is not marketing and it is not sales — it's the connected system that decides whether a buyer adopts.

The BridgeAudit™

Ten components. One outcome.

Every one of them feeds adoption. Any one of them can stop it — and most teams can name an owner for three.

Hover a component

 

Each has a single accountable owner in a healthy company.

What it's costing

Put your numbers on the line. The distance is the diagnosis.

Three benchmarks a healthcare technology board underwrites, fixed. Drag each handle to where your company actually sits.

Year-over-year growthHigher is better
12%You
SG&A of revenueLower is better
34%You
Months to first adoptionLower is better
11 moYou
3 of 3

Outside every benchmark a board underwrites. Each one on its own is survivable. Together they describe a commercial system that is being brute-forced rather than working.

Benchmarks are a standard to measure against — not a promise.

How this works

Investigate. Diagnose. Cure.

Borrowed from medicine deliberately — because the failure mode is identical. Treat the symptom you can see, and the patient keeps coming back.

Stage one

Investigate

Stage two

Diagnose

Stage three

Cure

"What is actually preventing customers from adopting?"

Not "why aren't we selling more." The question is what stops a physician, a value analysis committee or a health system from saying yes — and where inside your company that objection was manufactured, usually three departments from where it surfaced.

What comes outA hypothesis about where the constraint really lives, and agreement on what would prove it.

"Which of the ten components is producing it?"

The BridgeAudit™ is a micro-level deficiency and gap assessment across all ten commercialization components, targeting the root causes behind buyer resistance rather than the surface symptoms.

What comes outA location, not an opinion: the deficiency, what it is costing, and why three symptoms trace back to one.

"What replaces it — and who runs it afterwards?"

Commercial strategy design, organizational structure, the way your team talks to buyers, leadership development, technology and operational improvements — installed alongside your people with KPI tracking and accountability.

What comes outRepeatable systems where the deficiencies were, already being operated by your own team.

Services

Five practice areas. Scoped against the diagnosis.

Most engagements draw on two or three. Which ones is an output of the BridgeAudit™, not a conversation about packages.

Proof

The people who've had this done to their company.

Craig is an outstanding sales professional and a great person. He is an over-achiever; detail oriented; has excellent interpersonal skills and was consistently above his sales quota while at SurgRx. I would highly recommend Craig and would love to hire him again.

David RenziSenior Vice President, Sales Pulmonx Corporation

A Consultant, Mentor, Leader and experienced Sales Representative. Craig takes the hands on approach to work with your team and dives deep into the technical aspects of the products. I would highly recommend him.

Joel RussoDirector of Sales (former) Microline Surgical, Inc.

Craig is loyal, honest, and a true disruptor. I had the opportunity to work on the same team as Craig from 2022–2023 at Avel eCare. From our time together it is clear that Craig is not afraid to think outside of the box. You can always count on him to speak his mind, challenge the status quo, and work with you to come up with new ideas and strategies — all while maintaining a high level of integrity and collaborative spirit. I recommend Craig to those who are not afraid to do things differently to drive commercial growth.

Melanie HuenBusiness Development & Channel Partnerships Hello Heart

Craig was my sales trainer and Consultant. His leadership and guidance allowed me to grow both personally and professionally. I will be forever grateful.

Larry Anderson, Jr.Vice President — Commercial & Strategic Initiatives BG Medical

Craig came to Vivify Health and had an immediate impact with his work ethic and enthusiasm. He was a complete self starter and didn't wait for the marketing department to bring him leads. I was really impressed with his "outside the box" thinking related to lead generation. We were happy to let him try different ideas as we were all digging for as many ways we could find to build pipeline. The best part was the effect his efforts had on his fellow sales people — the entire team started thinking and sharing new ideas. Love working with people who break the mold and Craig is definitely one of those guys. If you're looking to reenergize your team this guy would be a great person to bring in.

Michael E. BanesseVice President of Commercial Sales BETTRAI

I have had the pleasure of working with Craig on several projects and presentations at Minerva Surgical. Craig's positive energy, loyalty to his organization and people, and his passion for sales are second to none. Thank you for your consistent willingness to step in and help, and your contagious enthusiasm.

Stacie HootkinMedical Device Sales Leader [Company — Craig to confirm]

Craig to confirm · Stacie Hootkin's company

Who you'd be talking to

Not an associate. Not a sales rep.

Craig T. Ingram, Co-founder and Chief Commercialization Advisor at Int'l Commercialization Growth Partners

Craig T. Ingram

Co-founder · Chief Commercialization Advisor

Craig started selling medical devices while still at university and built a distribution company doing it. A decade at Ethicon — Johnson & Johnson's surgical division — followed, then commercial leadership at VC-backed startups including SurgRx, which J&J later acquired.

Since 2007 he has worked almost exclusively as a trusted advisor to CEOs of venture and family-office-backed medical technology companies: launches, expansion into virgin territories, and the unglamorous work of turning a promising product into repeatable adoption.

PriorEthicon — Johnson & Johnson
PriorSurgRx — acquired by J&J
Advising CEOs since2007
BasedAustin · Rome · Dubai

Before you book

Eight questions. Pick the one that's stopping you.

Craig to confirm · cost range, weekly time commitment, board involvement

The next step

Fifteen minutes. One question answered.

Whether what's slowing your adoption is something structural — and if it is, roughly where it lives.

What happens

  • Craig reads your situation beforehand
  • You describe what's happening; he asks a lot of questions
  • You get his honest read on the likely root cause
  • If there's a fit you'll both know. If not, he'll say so

What it isn't

  • A capabilities deck
  • A proposal you didn't ask for
  • A junior associate running discovery
  • Something that turns into a 60-minute call
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