Cindy Resman

Cindy Resman leads marketing, communications and education at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF). She has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare and medical technology communications, with expertise in corporate brand and reputation, media relations, stakeholder engagement, internal communications and crisis communications.

Before accepting an internal role at MHIF in December 2022, Cindy founded Point Forward Communications, where she provided strategic communications and marketing support to medical device and healthcare organizations of all sizes, including MHIF. Previously, she spent 10 years at Medtronic in various leadership roles within global communications, and also held corporate and business unit communications positions at Baxter Healthcare and Abbott Laboratories after starting her career in the healthcare practice at Golin-Harris International, a global PR agency in Chicago.

Cindy holds a master’s degree in integrated marketing communications from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications from Drake University. She lives in Maple Grove with her husband, and they have three children.