In this new series titled Getting Personal, we talk to new and veteran senior executives about their journeys to corporate leadership, their motivations, passions, and the peaks and valleys of running a medtech company. Medtech Insight sat down with Mike Mussallem, CEO of Edwards Lifesciences, the leading seller of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) devices, at the company’s Irvine, CA-based headquarters.