Anna McVittie Szafranski

Anna McVittie Szafranski is the vice president of Marketing for Medtronic’s Peripheral business where she is responsible for global and U.S. downstream marketing, strategic planning, analytics, market development, sales training, and new product pipeline management.

Anna has been with Medtronic for nearly 12 years. Early in her time at Medtronic she won the Marketing Excellence Award for accelerating the growth of Medtronic’s cardiac ablation franchise, before leading the integration and US launch of the disruptive ArcticFront Cardiac Cryoballoon. Anna then led the peripheral vascular pipeline and strategic marketing teams through the Medtronic/Covidien acquisition and brought multiple innovative products from concept to market entry.

Prior to Medtronic, Anna worked in engineering and clinical research at start-up companies, including Percardia, Fox Hollow, and Heartport. Anna has engineering degrees from M.I.T and Stanford, and an MBA from Kellogg School of Business.