Michael Van Zandt

December 25, 1969 - July 28, 2021

Michael Van Zandt passed away on July 28, 2021, in Riverview Florida from complications associated with COVID-19. Michael was born on December 25, 1969, in Glens Falls, New York. His early education was in Vienna, Virginia, Clinton, New Jersey and Mississauga, Ontario. He started high school at Lorne Park Secondary School in Mississauga and completed his last two years at Smoky Hill High School in Aurora, Colorado. His higher education included one year at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, a Japanese language program at Harvard University, A B.A. from Colorado College (where he was an active member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity) in 1992 majoring in Economics and Asian Studies. After two years as a cardio-vascular medical device sales representative in Tokyo he then started his MBA program at Columbia University in New York City and graduated in 1996. His medical device business career included assignments in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Santa Rosa, California, and Tokyo, Japan. He worked as the director, vice president, president, and CEO level of several medical device companies including C R Bard, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Laerdal, and Genesis. Michael lived with his wife Naoko and daughters Hannah and Anne in Tokyo for the past 17 years. In addition to them, he is survived by his sister Lora Shipman, brother-in-law Guy Shipman, niece Kaitlyn Killeen and Mother and Father Judith and Russell Van Zandt, as well as a large extended family. In lieu of flowers please donate to the 529 college plans for Hannah and Anne. To donate please navigate to: ugift529.com To donate to Hannah use Ugift code F1S-N9Z To donate to Anne use Ugift code J0H-B0J, the "0s" are zeros This site can only be used with US Bank chacking accounts or ACH Use this site for Japan and if you want to use a credit card. https://donorbox.org/michael-vanzandt-family-scholarship