Paul Gam

Paul J. Gam is the former chairman and CEO of Zurich Medical Inc., a Minnesota-based innovator of cardiovascular devices. He is also a partner at the strategic advisory firm Grace Associates, which specializes in medical technology.

Earlier in his career, Paul served as vice president of international development at St. Jude Medical (now part of Abbott Laboratories), where he led mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and business development initiatives for its International Division. He began his work in medical technology at Medtronic, where he was finance director of the Cardiac Rhythm Management business before leading Corporate Global Assurance.

Paul is a graduate of Queen’s College in Hong Kong. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and an MBA in strategic management from the University of Minnesota. Active in the community, he serves on the national advisory committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation along other commercial and not-for-profit boards, and he has been recipient of several notable fellowships.