Leon C. Hirsch was the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United States Surgical Corporation. Mr. Hirsch and USSC revolutionized the wound closure market in 1967 with the introduction of Auto Suture* surgical staplers. Mr. Hirsch is the inventor of the first Auto Suture* device. In 1990, Mr. Hirsch and USSC again revolutionized surgery with the introduction of the world’s first automated minimally invasive stapler that launched today’s Laparoscopic market. Under Mr. Hirsch’s leadership, USSC sales grew from $350,000 in 1967, to $1.5 billion in 1998. In 1998, USSC was acquired by Tyco International for $3.3 billion. In 2003, Mr. Hirsch once more transformed a segment of the health care market with the introduction of VIVATONE; an open-fit, receiver-in-the-ear hearing aid system. The majority of hearing aids sold today, use Vivatone’s technology. Mr. Hirsch is currently the CEO of Gorham Enterprises; Gorham’s B-Caplet® is a unique Non-Invasive Weight-Loss Method.