Haldeman and Frazier
About
Haldeman & Frazier is a manufacturer’s representative agency covering California and the Western United States, focused entirely on medical device design and manufacturing. We connect R&D engineers and sourcing teams with a curated group of manufacturers across metal components, polymer extrusions, nitinol wire and tube, polyimide tubing and coated wire, marker bands, medical coils and springs, guidewires, mandrels and core wires, balloons, etched PTFE liners, FEP heat shrink tubing, shaped wire, custom stamping, precision machining, micro metal 3D printing, plating, laser cutting, stent cutting and FEA, catheter subassembly, full catheter design and manufacturing, braided and coiled shafts, pull ring assemblies, endoscope subassembly, and engineering services.
We don’t represent everyone. We represent manufacturers we’d want to work with if we were the customer, people who move fast, take ownership, and solve problems without making things complicated. When a customer was struggling with marker band lead times and rising costs, we brought in a supplier built specifically to fix that. When nitinol sourcing kept hitting the same ingot melt bottleneck, we found a partner who changed how the industry thinks about nitinol alloying. That’s how we build the portfolio.
We work as a catalyst, not a gatekeeper. Engineers ask us who to contact at a manufacturer and we connect them directly. Manufacturers ask how to reach a customer and we connect them directly. We don’t care which direction the conversation starts. We care that it happens fast and without friction. You can talk to whoever you want: the engineer running your job, the CEO, or just us. Nothing is hidden and nothing is routed through us unnecessarily.
We move at the speed of the engineers we work with. Our tools, our outreach, and the way we communicate adapt to what customers actually need, not to what’s always been done.
If you’re sourcing components or looking for a manufacturing partner for a catheter, minimally invasive device, surgical robot, implantable, or stent program and you want a direct line to manufacturers who will actually engage with your problem, that’s what we do.
Team
Our
California & Western United States
Decades of Expertise:
Our team brings over 40 years of experience in medical device design
and manufacturing, ensuring unparalleled support for your innovative projects.
Kevin Frazier
President
Southern California & Western US
+1-818-207-7174
Kevin Frazier is President of Haldeman & Frazier. For more than 25 years, he has helped medical device companies bring new ideas to life faster and with fewer surprises, closing the gap between engineering ambition and production reality.
The network Kevin has built is the reason clients stay. Every ISO 13485-certified partner in the Haldeman & Frazier portfolio was selected personally: micro-coil makers, precision machinists, balloon and extrusion experts, plating specialists, marker band manufacturers, and micro metal additive innovators. Each one earned a place by proving reliability, speed, and the technical depth to keep programs moving. When the roster changes, it's because Kevin sees a gap and finds a manufacturer built specifically to close it.
His operating principle is straightforward: think like engineers, act like operators. That means simplifying complexity, anticipating risk before it costs a program its timeline, and staying involved through commercialization. Kevin works with founders scaling a new product, sourcing teams re-evaluating an existing supplier strategy, and OEM programs where the manufacturing side has to keep pace with the design side.
Barry Teshima
Vice President
Northern California & Western US
+1-616-550-4681
Barry Teshima is the Vice President of Haldeman & Frazier. He works directly with R&D and sourcing teams on cardiovascular, neurovascular, electrophysiology, orthopedic, wearable, and surgical robotics programs, cutting weeks or months out of supplier selection cycles that would otherwise stall a program.
The challenge for most teams isn't lack of options; it's knowing which suppliers have genuinely solved similar problems, where the realistic choke points are, and what's achievable within a given timeline. Barry brings the kind of nuance that only comes from watching many programs move from prototype through launch: raw material constraints that aren't visible yet, tolerances that look achievable on paper but won't be repeatable at scale, and where the technology simply isn't there yet.
His approach is diagnostic before prescriptive. Understand the design intent, the timeline, the manufacturability risks, then connect the team with the manufacturer who has already worked through that specific problem. Getting to the right answer efficiently is what matters. When teams need to cut through the options and know who can actually make it, Barry is the call.