Tom most recently, served as Vice President of Operations at MASCO where he grew a successful start-up company from $0 to $20MM in sales in less than18 months. Tom was previously CEO of a $40MM services company and a $100MM logistics company and managed a $500MM home services business for Home Depot. Tom began his career as a healthcare entrepreneur. Tom has a BS in Engineering from Texas A&M and an MBA from The University of Texas.

Jeffrey Mansfield received his B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Drexel University in 1987 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1992 and 1996. While at Purdue, he investigated from both theoretical and experimental perspectives a new method to aid in the placement of catheters and tubes within the human body using reflected sound. After graduate school, Dr. Mansfield worked as a

Prior to her current role, Laura Lyons was the Director of Quality, Regulatory, and Clinical at Disetronic/Roche Diagnostics, where she successfully led the organization through challenging process improvements and direct negotiations with the FDA. Her experiences also include Customer Service Manager, Sales Manager, and time spent as a licensed respiratory therapist directly treating patients in the surgical, medical, pediatric, and neo-natal in

Jim Schulz is a Founder and Partner in Upward Focus, LLC, providing CFO and accounting services to small start-up companies. His clients include Tigris Pharmaceuticals, SonarMed, Coferon, Naurex and Kylin Therapeutics. Jim has over 18 years of financial experience working with public accounting firms, Fortune 500 companies and small start-up companies. He graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1992 and worked for over seven years with

David brings over 15 years of marketing, business development and general management experience. He began his career at PriceWaterhouse and later co-founded a successful start-up, LASAS Technologies. Most recently, David worked as Director of Product Management as part of the management team that launched a corporate funded start-up for MASCO. David has a BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from Cornell University.