Celebrating Our Boundless
Human Potential

We’re innovators and doers who want to help those with knee pain live life to its fullest. We’re committed to crafting creative, end-to-end surgical solutions and innovative tools that push the field of orthopaedics into the future with simpler, more effective solutions that preserve our native anatomy.

Christian
Anderson, MD

Founding Surgeon, CMO

As an orthopaedic surgeon, I have always had an interest in advancing sports medicine through research and innovation. The roots of this passion go all the way back to high school when I created a novel fishhook design. From that point, it’s been my lifelong goal to create meaningful products that improve lives. I feel fortunate to be able to pursue my dream by creating some inspiring and innovative devices that focus on saving the knee.

Tom
Gamache

Co-Founder, CEO

I have a deep passion for innovation. While I was with Johnson and Johnson, I formed and directed multiple teams responsible for hundreds of successful medical device and medtech launches, resulting in billions in revenue. Most recently I was Senior Director of Innovation at JNJ MedTech in which I led technology scouting, BD, acquisitions, integrations and internal innovation efforts. Innovation never sleeps, and patients are waiting for our innovations, so speed to market is what fuels me and my teams.

Samuel Grossman

Managing Director

I started my career in the Surgeon Request Team, creating customized instruments to fit a surgeon’s specific need.  I worked for 14 years in R&D across Spine, Ortho, and Sports Medicine at J&J, learning the discipline and focus necessary to launch medical devices worldwide.  I pride myself on understanding complex problems, and leading teams towards elegant execution. I thrive in the outdoors, and do my best thinking while walking with my kiddos each morning.

Brian
Morley

Chief Marketing Officer

At 19, I developed and launched my first product and haven't looked back. With vast industry leading experience (J&J, Synthes), strategic and tactical expertise, and years in the entrepreneurial space (2023 Providence Business News C-Suite award nominee), I thrive when contributing to a small, high-performing team. I’m known to challenge our thinking to reveal overlooked opportunities, which can be the difference between success and failure. Mushroom forager, maker & full-time husband/dad.

OUR VALUES

Intentional Innovation

Patient Centered,
Surgeon Focused

High patient outcomes through meeting surgeons’ needs

Honoring
Native Anatomy

Technology that preserves native tissue and accurately restores the anatomy

Simplicity

Intuitive systems that minimize surgical complexity

Precision +
Excellence

Meticulous design and engineering for tools that enhance your process

FOUNDING STORY

Exploring What’s Possible.

Discovering my love
for invention.

As a kid, I spent all my spare time fishing. And then, when I was 18 it struck me that the fishing hook had been the same for hundreds of years and immediately went to work improving the design. I took drawings and my ideas for a better hook to a patent attorney and quickly discovered I didn’t have the funding to turn it into a reality. I was disappointed, but that passion for the pursuit of improvement, of finding and doing things a better way, took hold and never left.

Finding inspiration from fly fishing.

That love for fishing also never left. As someone who is dedicated to learning and perfecting whatever I do, fishing has taken me to some pretty amazing places around the world. Then, inspired by my father who was an orthopaedic surgeon, I went to medical school and discovered that orthopaedics was also a perfect fit for me.

Once I became an orthopaedic surgeon, I saw so many parallels to the knot tying I’d done while fishing, that I knew I could solve some of the frustrations I had during surgery with fly fishing techniques. Using what I learned from my first foray into innovating the hook at 18, I knew exactly how I could create surgical tools that would make procedures smoother and more effective in the operating room.

Founding Native to
realize the vision.

Starting Native is the marriage of my passion for orthopaedics, my life-long love of fishing, and a deep seated need to find better way to do things. As a team, we hope to move the boundaries of orthopaedics forward that we may have better outcomes for patients and lighter cognitive load for surgeons.

We’re dedicated to innovating the preservationist approach for all aspects of knee and joint repair. Sign up for updates to see what we’re working on next.

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We’re dedicated to innovating the preservationist approach for all aspects of knee and joint repair.

Sign up for updates to see what we’re working on next.