Dow Wilson

Retired CEO, Varian Medical Systems

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2023
Angel investor🌍 United States
5
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12y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Feb 2023
Siemens Healthineers is a leading medtech company with over 125 years of experience. We pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably. Our portfolio, spanning in vitro and in vivo diagnostics to image-guided therapy and cancer care, is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways. With our strengths in patient twinning, precision therapy, as well as digital, data, and artificial intelligence (AI), we are well positioned to take on the greatest challenges in healthcare. We will continue to build on these strengths to help overcome the world’s most threatening diseases, enable efficient operations, and expand access to care. We are a team of more than 71,000 Healthineers in over 70 countries passionately pushing the boundaries of what is possible in healthcare to help improve the lives of people around the world.
Board Member
Jan 2018
The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) is committed to creating the most powerful strategic partnership between the U.S. and India. Promoting bilateral trade is an important part of our work, but our mission reaches far beyond this. It is about business and government coming together in new ways to create meaningful opportunities that have the power to change the lives of citizens. We are entering a new era based on a strategic partnership between the U.S. and India – one where we will work closely together with business and government leaders to achieve our goals of driving economic growth, job creation, innovation, inclusion, and entrepreneurship.
Board Member
Feb 2017
Our Mission: Through the talent of our people and vision of customers, we help improve and save lives throughout the world by making the invisible visible. Our Vision: To be the preferred global partner for innovative x-ray imaging solutions. Varex Imaging Corporation is the world’s largest independent supplier of medical X-ray tubes and image processing solutions. From medical imaging to cargo screening and border security, our components are used by X-ray imaging system manufacturers everywhere to detect, diagnose, and protect. Our products are designed to harness the power of X-ray energy to pioneer advances in any application. This requires us to maintain an extensive catalog, and we are a leading supplier of high-voltage connectors, X-ray collimators, ionization chambers, mammography paddles, solid state automatic exposure control systems and buckies for digital imaging. As a leader in imaging components, our goal is to help our customers become world-class system suppliers by strengthening their competitiveness and enabling them to bring products to market faster. Our rich history spans 65+ years of dedication to the imaging industry, but our everyday work is devoted to our partners’ success.
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2023
Board Member
Feb 2023
Siemens Healthineers is a leading medtech company with over 125 years of experience. We pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably. Our portfolio, spanning in vitro and in vivo diagnostics to image-guided therapy and cancer care, is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways. With our strengths in patient twinning, precision therapy, as well as digital, data, and artificial intelligence (AI), we are well positioned to take on the greatest challenges in healthcare. We will continue to build on these strengths to help overcome the world’s most threatening diseases, enable efficient operations, and expand access to care. We are a team of more than 71,000 Healthineers in over 70 countries passionately pushing the boundaries of what is possible in healthcare to help improve the lives of people around the world.
2018
Board Member
Jan 2018
The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) is committed to creating the most powerful strategic partnership between the U.S. and India. Promoting bilateral trade is an important part of our work, but our mission reaches far beyond this. It is about business and government coming together in new ways to create meaningful opportunities that have the power to change the lives of citizens. We are entering a new era based on a strategic partnership between the U.S. and India – one where we will work closely together with business and government leaders to achieve our goals of driving economic growth, job creation, innovation, inclusion, and entrepreneurship.
2017
Board Member
Feb 2017
Our Mission: Through the talent of our people and vision of customers, we help improve and save lives throughout the world by making the invisible visible. Our Vision: To be the preferred global partner for innovative x-ray imaging solutions. Varex Imaging Corporation is the world’s largest independent supplier of medical X-ray tubes and image processing solutions. From medical imaging to cargo screening and border security, our components are used by X-ray imaging system manufacturers everywhere to detect, diagnose, and protect. Our products are designed to harness the power of X-ray energy to pioneer advances in any application. This requires us to maintain an extensive catalog, and we are a leading supplier of high-voltage connectors, X-ray collimators, ionization chambers, mammography paddles, solid state automatic exposure control systems and buckies for digital imaging. As a leader in imaging components, our goal is to help our customers become world-class system suppliers by strengthening their competitiveness and enabling them to bring products to market faster. Our rich history spans 65+ years of dedication to the imaging industry, but our everyday work is devoted to our partners’ success.
2015
Board Member
Jan 2015
Who We Are: AdvaMeds member companies produce the medical devices, diagnostic products and health information systems that are transforming health care through earlier disease detection, less invasive procedures and more effective treatments. Our members produce health care technology both in the United States and around the world. AdvaMed members range from the largest to the smallest medical technology innovators and companies. Our Mission: AdvaMed advocates for a legal, regulatory and economic environment that advances global health care by assuring worldwide patient access to the benefits of medical technology. We promote policies that foster the highest ethical standards, rapid product approvals, appropriate reimbursement, and access to international markets. To achieve this, AdvaMed promotes: Speedier product approvals by industry regulators worldwide; More timely coverage and payment determinations globally; Fair access to international markets; and Effective communications about the value of medical technology to key audiences including legislators, regulators, medical societies and patient organizations.
2014
President's Advisory Committee on Doing Business in Africa; Chairman of USA-Brazil CEO Forum
Board Member
2014
Investment activity
2014–2023 · 5 investments
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