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Secretive Naples' exec on how to build a $3B medical device business

Reinhold Schmieding says little publicly about the company he founded, Arthrex. His silence belies the company’s resounding, generational success.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 5:00 a.m. August 23, 2024
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PBS national science correspondent Miles O’Brien, right, interviewed Arthrex founder Reinhold Schmieding in April 2021.
PBS national science correspondent Miles O’Brien, right, interviewed Arthrex founder Reinhold Schmieding in April 2021.
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Reinhold Schmieding could easily be a braggart. 

The Naples entrepreneur has a lot to boast about, much of it attributable to Arthrex, a medical manufacturer focusing on sports medicine and less invasive surgery products through the motto of “helping surgeons treat their patients better.”

 

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