26-06-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
After Tragedy, an Entrepreneur's Triumph
Doug Evans's career soared in June 2012 when his company, Kensey Nash, was sold for $360 million. But his personal life had taken a tragic turn.
About two months before the sale, his son Cameron, an eighth-grader who had developed cancer, went on mechanical ventilation. It kept him alive, but he struggled to wean himself off breathing support. He died in May 2012, about three weeks after separating from the machine.