Augie Lien

Augie Lien is a successful serial entrepreneur in the medical devices field. He is most recently founder, Chairman, and CEO of Taiwan Aulisa Medical Device Technologies, Inc, which develops wireless, wearable FDA cleared vitals monitoring systems for at home use as well as systems integration at the healthcare institution level. By combining medical device sciences and information communication technologies, Aulisa’s proprietary innovations address unmet needs in the medical field and technological and operational trends within the healthcare industry.

Augie’s prior start-ups include Nellcor (IPO and subsequently acquired by Medtronic), which provides patient monitoring; Menlo Care (merged with Johnson and Johnson Medical), focusing on Hospital supplies; Gynecare (IPO and then acquire by Johnson and Johnson/Ethicon), addressing Gynecology Surgery needs; and EPI (acquired by Boston Scientific), which focuses on interventional Cardiology. These start-ups have all been acquired by multi-national companies or had an IPO in the US stock market. His fifth company, Cardiva Medical, is a successful interventional cardiology company which has been acquired by Haemonetics recently in February 2021.

Augie holds an MBA from the University of Santa Clara and an MS from Stanford University. He also graduated with an MA from National Chen Chi University and a BS from National Cheng Kung University, both in Taiwan.