Realheart recruits CTO from German artificial heart start-up
Realheart has recruited a Chief Technology Officer for its headquarters in Västerås, Sweden. Thomas Finocchiaro joins from a similar role at a German company named Reinheart TAH GmbH, which, like Realheart, is developing an artificial heart.Thomas Finocchiaro was born in Germany in 1976. He graduated from the University of Aachen, where he obtained a PhD in electrical engineering in 2012, investigating a linear drive concept for artificial hearts. He has worked for more than ten years at the University Hospital of Aachen, first as manager of a TAH programme (Total Artificial Heart) and