About SportWelding GmbH

SportWelding GmbH is a Swiss medical device company that is in the process of developing products for the sports medicine market based on the protected BoneWelding® Technology from WoodWelding SA.

SportWelding’s objective is to create novel products for sports medicine by implementing the unique BoneWelding® Technology. The result will be a portfolio of products that have the potential to a) reduce risk and recovery time for patients, b) improve outcomes and reduce procedure time for surgeons, and c) reduce costs for payors through faster procedures and potential avoidance of second operations.

SportWelding's Management Team

Gerhard Plasonig
Prof. Dr.
Managing Director		 gp
 Gerhard is Managing Director of SportWelding. He is co-founder of the WoodWelding Group and founder of GP International, an IPR, technology investment and exploitation company. Before starting GPI and WoodWelding, he worked for seven years with The Generics Group, Cambridge, UK, as well as two years for Pugh Roberts Associates in Boston, MA (USA). He has a degree in automotive engineering, a doctorate in strategic technology management from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and was a Fulbright Doctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA (USA). He holds an Honorary Professorship from the Technical University of Munich (Germany).
Jörg Mayer
Dr.
Chief Technical Officer		 joerg
 Jörg is leads R&D at SportWelding. Jörg joined the WoodWelding Group in 2002 and is still today responsible for R&D at WoodWelding and WoodWelding's daughter company, SpineWelding. Prior to joining WoodWelding Jörg spent more than ten years with the Chair of Biocompatible Materials Science and Engineering at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as Vice Chairman. He also supervised more than 25 PhD students and was project leader for numerous implant development projects in co-operation with major medical device manufacturers. He worked as scientific advisor in the process of spinning out four medical device companies. He was the initiator of the Life Science Park Zurich Initiative. He got his engineering and PhD degrees from, ETH Zurich and holds several scientific awards.