Darik Volpa's Email & Phone

After nine years in the medical device industry, Darik Volpa witnessed a huge disconnect in communication between surgeons and patients. Most of the time doctors were too busy or lacked the skill set to communicate well with patients, and patients were usually confused with strange terminology or too nervous to ask the right questions. These opportunities led Mr. Volpa to found Understand.com in 2003. Today, Understand.com has over 2,000 physicians licensing content and has served more than 5,000,000 patients in over 130 countries. Mr. Volpa gained much of his experience at Stryker Corporation, a $5 billion medical device company where he managed $50 million in products and was responsible for the development and launch of over 50 medical devices. He earned numerous awards at Stryker including Marketing Professional of the Year and the Rolex Award for Sales Performance. In 2006, Mr. Volpa was awarded "Best of Show" at the Silver & Gold Venture Capital Conference representing Understand.com. Mr. Volpa was named the 2007 Innovator of the Year by The Business Report of Northern Nevada and received Senatorial recognition from Nevada Senator John Ensign. In 2009 Mr. Volpa was a recipient of the Reno Gazette Journal and Reno-Tahoe Young Professionals Network ?20 Under 40? award and was selected as a 20/20 Business Visionary by Nevada Business Magazine. Mr. Volpa resides in Reno, Nevada with his wife Tiffany and daughters Morgan and Tatum.