Mr. Nickels has substantial experience in building clinical and comercialization teams beginning with Rosemount Aerospace to more recently with Kinesis Medical and Celleration. Kevin successfully brought Kenesis to liquidity through the sale to Orthofix. Celleration, a venture backed company in wound care and tissue regeneration, achieved $10M in the fourth year of commercialization.

Dr. Drasler worked for Baxter Travenol on dialysis systems and for Applied Membrane Technology on plasma deposition technology. In the early 1980's, he managed angioplasty projects at SciMed in balloon bonding and development. Dr. Drasler was VP of R&D for Possis Medical where he took the Angiojet thrombectomy project from inception to production. He was also VP of Engineering at Lake Region Manufacturing.

Mr. Black is a Minneapolis based private consultant specializing in Reimbursement Strategy and Payer Relations in medical technology. Ed excels in tranlating government and private payer policies into successful reimbursement planning. He also has 25+ years in Director level positions with Blue Cross Blue Shield and TriWest Healthcare Alliance. In the early 90's, Ed served as executive director of three business partnerships with large clinics