Has spent more than 25 years in ops, sales, bus dev, fund-raising, and M&A/IPO
Prior to OTS was a P&L/sales executive with Premier Inc, a $25 billion hospital equipment and supply company
Has held senior positions including VP of Sam Walton family PE fund, CFO and CIO of blue-chips such as Clarkston Potomac Group, BeaconEye, Inc.
Holds MBA from Wharton and B.S. in Business Administration from U N Carolina, and CPA designation in Texas

Has spent 33 years launching new medical products and businesses engaged in cardiac surgery, orthopedics, endoscopy, blood management, neurosurgery, in-vitro diagnostics, cell separation, and cell therapy
Has held senior product / R&D positions with leading biomedical players incl 3M Corporation, Medtronic, Inc. and Terumo Medical Corporation
Holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and MSc in Engineering from MIT

During 1985 - 1992, he founded and was Executive Director of an organ procurement organization ("OPO") and started an organ transplant program at Harris Methodist Hospital.
Holds a BA in Chemistry from Vanderbilt University and a Masters in Sustainability from the University of Texas, Arlington

More than 13 years of quality assurance and quality systems work primarily with Medtronic, including work in CardioVascular working with perfusion systems and Heart Valve businesses
He holds BS degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota and MBA from Argosy University.
Holds American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications as a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) and Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CQM/O

Has worked with the OTS device and perfusion solutions in research for past 6 years
As Graduate Research Assistant at the UTSW Medical Center, he participated in canine and discarded human heart trials with two generations of OTS devices and, as an intern helped develop the device
He holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and was awarded his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UTSW in 2012