Tim Ciciarelli has over 25 years of medical device experience as an individual contributor and as a leader. He has expertise in electrical hardware, firmware, software and system design.

Most recently he was VP of R&D at Neuspera Medical where he also served as interim co-president. Before that he was Engineering Director at Nanostim. Tim helped both Neuspera and Nanostim develop novel implantable devices outside of the standard "can and lead" paradigm. Tim also served as Director of Product Development, among other positions, at St. Jude Medical (now part of Abbott). Tim began his career as a design engineer at Ventritex, a pioneer of implantable cardioverter defibrillators.

He has a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Physics from the University of Virginia, where he also studied Computer Science. He has over 20 issued US Patents.