Howard Leonhardt serves as an Advisory Board member for Cell Therapy Foundation. Howard is an inventor with over 21 pioneering patents for products for treating cardiovascular and heart disease. His inventions have been used to treat over 200,000 patients and have generated more than $3 billion in revenues. His inventions include first commercially successful stent graft, multiple cardiovascular balloon catheters, the first intravascular lung, the first vibrational energy devices for preventing plaque formation in arteries, the first adventia stem cell treatment system for repairing arteries, the first catheter based system for decalcifying heart valve leaflets, the first cell seeding and sodding system for repairing heart valve leaflets, first percutaneous heart valve, first stem cell therapies for heart failure, first biological pacemaker, first implantable stem cell pump, first stem cell bra, first multi-stage stem cell + growth factor therapy for heart failure, first electrical stimulation devices for directing stem cell therapies including first wireless energy non-invasive devices for directing stem cell regeneration of organs, first aortic aneurysm repair method with stem cells directed via non-invasive energy device. He is the founder of over 28 companies to date including BioLeonhardt www.bioleonhardt, MyoStim Pacers www.myostimpacers.com and The Cal-X Stars Business Accelerator www.calxstars.com. His Leonhardt Ventures www.leonhardtventures.com has raised and put to work more than $145 million. He is co-host of the CNBC TV Show Crowdfund: The American Dream. He leads Startup California www.startupcalifornia.org and serves as state spokesperson for The JOBS ACT and Crowdfunding. He is founder and Chairman of The California Stock ExchangeTM (Cal-X) for life science and social good impact company listings. He is an active member of the Conscious Capitalism Society. His Leonhardt Vineyards wines www.leonhardtvineyards.com produced in Sonoma County, California with his son Ryan have won Gold Medals and are featured at over 120 Trader Joe's stores.