SAID HILAL
CEO/PRESIDENT
APPLIED MEDICAL
WHY: Founded device maker in 1987. Makes medical instruments for minimally invasive procedures; now oversees more than 5K employees, with offices spread across Rancho Santa Margarita, Irvine and Foothill Ranch.
IN THE NEWS: Launched redeployable retrieval system for specimen extraction during tissue removal last April.
NOTABLE: OC’s second-largest device maker by local employee count.
QUOTABLE: “We were built on a mission of making a difference, and we won’t stop short of that.”
