About Defibtech

Founded in 1999 by two graduates from Yale University, Defibtech now has more than 375,000 defibrillator units in the field and they have become one of the world leaders in the AED industry.

Dr. Glenn W. Laub, a cardiothoracic surgeon and his long time friend and fellow Yale graduate, Gintaras Vaisnys, an engineer, founded the company on the ideals and mission to combine their experience and build a company to create and manufacturer one of the world’s leading AEDs.

The company hired individuals who had extensive medical device design experience and also high-tech high-volume consumer product development experience. Members of their team had previously developed hospital equipment including arrhythmia detection algorithms and ultrasound imaging equipment, implantable and invasive medical devices such as heart valves and catheters to military technology like rocket ultrasound inspection systems.

Once their AED range was launched to the marketplace in 2003, they revolutionized the marketplace, offering high levels of quality and reliability with a defibrillator that was to be sold at half the market price of its competitors.

Based in the United States in a state-of-the-art facility, the company received honours, prizes and distinctions over its early years. In 2006 their range of AEDs were selected to protect the athletes and spectators at the Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy.

Defibtech has ascertained awards from numerous organisations including an American Business Award in 2006 for Best Overall Company and a Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) as the Lifeline AED was selected as a gold winner in the 2005 competition.

In 2014 the company was awarded a Good Design Award, which is the oldest design competition in the world, founded in Chicago in 1950. The jury found that the company’s Lifeline AUTO AED was worthy of the Good Design Award for product distinction.

 

 

 

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