Mr. Fortier has worked in the Medical Device business for over 25 years with much of that experience in start-up companies. Experience includes: Director of Strategic Marketing for Lumeins, V.P. Sales and Marketing at FzioMed, Global Marketing Manager at UroSurge, Product Manager at Biopsys Medical. Mr. Fortier has an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management.

Mr. Naber has been involved with the financing and operations of start-up medical device companies for the past 20 years. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Eyeonics Inc., acquired by Bausch & Lomb, Operational and financial roles with Vertos Medical, Inc., and Orthalign, Inc. Consulted for Intralase Corp., SenoRx, BioLucent, Vascular Control Systems, which included 2 IPO's and 4 acquisitions. CFO for Biopsys Medical, acquired by J&J.

Dr. Skinner served as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the UC system for over 20 years, including Chairman at UCI from 1994 to 2006 and now practices at St. Jude Medical in Fullerton, California. Dr. Skinner is a materials scientist with over 100 publications. He has experience with two start-ups, Norian (injectable bone substitute, sold to Synthes) and Kyphon (kyphoplasty, sold to Medtronic). He has also served as a panel member for the FDA.

Tadashi S. Kaneko, Ph.D. is a mechanical engineer, biomedical engineer, and machinist. He has experience designing and fabricating equipment for bone research. A significant portion of Dr. Kaneko’s doctoral dissertation involved the development and evaluation of a radiation transport modeling method for predicting dose distributions in vertebrae injected with radioactive bone cement. Dr. Kaneko has 12 peer-reviewed publications and abstracts.

Joyce Keyak, Ph.D. is a co-inventor of Spine-Rad Cement and the driving force for R&D of products and procedures related to internal radiation therapy (brachytherapy) for bone. Dr. Keyak has over 10 years of experience as an Associate Professor of Radiological Sciences, Orthopaedic Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI. She heads the Bone Biomechanics Lab. at UCI, and has over 50 peer-reviewed publications

Varun Sehgal, Ph.D. is a medical physicist with experience developing brachytherapy techniques. He is an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at UCI, is board certified in Therapeutic Radiological Physics by the American Board of Radiology. He also serves on the Special Brachytherapy Modalities Working Group of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Dr. Sehgal has 20 publications & presentations at national meetings.

Mr. Mocnik has over 20 years of experience in developing and implementing QA Systems, RA strategies and submissions, and assuring compliance for companies in the medical device, diagnostic and pharma industries. He currently serves as VP RA/QA for Cianna Medical. Mr. Mocnik served as the VP of RA/QA for Refractec, the Director of RA/QA at Neurocare, and held senior management positions at Birtcher Medical Systems and Allergan Medical Optics.