Nalu Medical, Inc. (“Nalu”) announced today the appointment of Raymond W Cohen to serve as chairman of its board of directors.
Raymond W Cohen served as the chief executive officer and member of the board of directors of Nasdaq-listed Axonics, Inc., a medical device company he co-founded in 2013 and took public in late October 2018. Axonics ranked No. 1 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ and the Financial Times ranking of the fastest growing companies in the Americas in 2021 and 2022. Cohen retired from Axonics following the November 2024 close of its $3.7 billion sale to Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX).
Following the sale of Axonics, Cohen was named chairman of the board of SoniVie, Ltd., a privately held, Israel-based developer of a renal denervation system to treat hypertension. Cohen was instrumental in the March 2025 announced sale to BSX for $600 million. In addition, Cohen serves on the board of directors of Kestra Medical Technologies (Nasdaq: KMTS), a commercial stage company manufacturing and marketing a wearable defibrillator product for patients at temporary risk of cardiac arrest. Kestra completed an oversubscribed IPO in early March, raising $232 million in gross proceeds.
Tom West, Nalu CEO and president, said, “We look forward to benefiting from Mr. Cohen’s broad experience in growing MedTech companies and his expertise in neuromodulation as we seek to significantly increase adoption of our peripheral nerve stimulation system.”
Raymond W Cohen is an accredited public company director with more than 40 years of experience in the life sciences industry. He received the 2024 MedTech MVP Award and was also named Businessperson of the Year in 2024 by the Orange County Business Journal. In 2021, Cohen received a lifetime achievement award from SoCalBio for his four decades of work in medical technology. In late 2020, Cohen was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young for the Pacific Southwest United States.
