Denise Steinbring

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Denise Steinbring is an Area Managing Partner with Chief Outsiders and currently serves as a Fractional CMO and CEO to emerging MedTech companies, including an active engagement with a revenue-generating medical technology company. Her career spans 25+ years of global commercial leadership across large strategics, mid-market growth companies, and early-stage ventures in the medical device and healthcare technology sectors. She holds an MBA from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School and a certificate in Digital Transformation from MIT Sloan Executive Education.
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Why MedTech’s Brilliant Innovators Must Also Become Commercial Architects

Why MedTech’s Brilliant Innovators Must Also Become Commercial Architects

Thu, Mar 26, 2026 | Posted by Denise Steinbring

 Great technology is necessary. It is not sufficient. The graveyard of MedTech is lined with brilliant innovations that never found their market — not because of scientific failure, but commercial invisibility. 

I just returned from LSI USA ‘26 in Dana Point — the most impressive gathering of emerging MedTech talent I’ve witnessed in decades. The event convened 2,000 executives, 394 presenting startups, and over 500 active investors and strategics. The scientific ambition in that room was extraordinary.

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