Meet our founders
Andrew Napier, MD, FAAEM
Founder & CEO
Dr. Napier is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician and innovator. He is a graduate of USF College of Medicine and currently practices medicine in California.
His path into the medical field began in the Army where he was a Combat Medic. During his time in service, he was awarded the Purple Heart and Combat Medical Badge while deployed to Afghanistan.
He invented the device IntuBlade in order to bring new medical devices into the mainstream market.
Dave Wardern III, MSF
COO/Co-Founder
Mr. Warden is a Combat Veteran of the US Marine Corps and a Purple Heart recipient. He studied Economics and Finance at the University of South Florida and is a recipient of the Pat Tillman Foundation scholarship.
Since military separation, he has founded multiple startups in the Government contracting industry along with a successful financial management and advising business.
With his proven track record, he was selected for Tampa Bay Business Journal’s: Top 30 Under 30 Business Professionals.
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Our Story
In 2008 Dr. Napier, an Army Medic at the time, was deployed to Afghanistan.
A soldier in his battalion sustained critical wounds from a suicide bomber, and his injuries prevented him from breathing. Medics unsuccessfully attempted to place a breathing tube due to a large amount of blood that blocked their view. The soldier later succumbed to his wounds in the field of battle.
In honor of this fallen soldier, Dr. Napier began to work tirelessly over the course of his medical career to invent a device that would change the outcome of this scenario in the future.
IntuBlade was founded by a former Army Medic who witnessed the preventable death of a soldier due to a faulty laryngoscope design.
Determined to find a solution, Dr. Napier spent the next decade working on prototypes and eventually created IntuBlade, a medical device with a patented lens clearing technology that ensures rapid and successful intubations every use.
IntuBlade aims to eliminate complications and save lives by reducing the number of unnecessary infections, brain damage, and deaths caused by intubation procedures, which currently cost a collective $9 billion annually.
We believe IntuBlade is the future of intubations.
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