BIYEE SCITECH - Key Persons


Charles Flather

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Managing Partner of Middlegreen Associates
Mr. Flather is the managing partner of Middlegreen Associates, an investment management firm. Previously, he was with State Street Research and Management Company, another Boston investment organization, where he was a managing partner and was in charge of the corporate pension fund area, which from zero in 1966 had grown to $9 billion of the firm's $12 billion of assets under management. The partners sold State Street Research to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York in 1983, and Mr. Flather left and formed Middlegreen Associates in 1986. He has accumulated several decades of experience in successfully analyzing and investing in businesses of all sizes across many industries and many geographies. He has served on a number of boards of corporations and charities. Mr. Flather holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA from Harvard College.

Edward B. Marsh Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Managing Director of MedTech Capital
Dr. Marsh is a Managing Director of MedTech Capital with 30 years of experience in the hands-on practice of clinical medicine, principally in the nonsurgical areas of pediatrics, family medicine, emergency and military medicine, and occupational health and safety. The settings of these practices varied widely, from a 2-person private practice to a 600-clinician multispecialty HMO, to a deployable Army Reserve unit. In addition to a clinical practice, Ed chaired for 20 years an Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research overseeing compliance with Federal Guidelines. Within the HMO, he conceived, developed, and managed a $1.5M Occupational Medicine "start-up" subunit, and achieved profitable status within the first year. He was elected several times to the Board of Trustees of the HMO, and was part of a select committee designated to investigate and select an electronic medical record system for the organization. He held a faculty appointment to Harvard Medical School throughout his clinical career, and resigned from the Army Reserves at the rank of Colonel. Dr. Marsh has an AB from Princeton University, an MD from Johns Hopkins University and completed approximately half the requirements for an MPH from Medical College of Wisconsin.

Hong Zhang

Hong Zhang, PhD, founded Biyee SciTech Inc in January 2010 after over two decades of research spanning from optomotor response to help missile guidance, combined effect of environmental factors on humans for optimizing fighter cockpit, color vision and its revolution, to cardiac assist devices. He also developed dozens of software applications with hundreds of thousands of lines of code in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, SQL, Z80 and x86 Assemblies, etc. He started application development with embedded programming for physiological signal acquisition and processing, then developed a series of applications for clinical and research use including EEG, EGG, ERG and BAER some of which have been in regular clinical use for over a decade.. Later he developed control algorithms for total artificial heart and a completely automated mock system for rapid R&D tasks. He was also responsible for developing the first commercial remote monitoring system for cardiac assist device named A 6 - Anywhere, Anytime, Any data of Any patient at Any Authorized person. A lab information management system developed by him encompasses complete automation of multi-device, multi-source data acquisition, remote alarming, data archiving using the latest database technologies, data analysis, reporting and its subscription-based electronic delivery.

Robert T.V. Kung

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
Dr. Kung was the Chief Scientific Officer of ABIOMED Inc. For over two decades, he led the research and development for a series of advanced medical devices. They include the AbioCor, the world's first completely self-contained replacement heart. He is a respected figure in the cardiac assist device field and has given frequent lectures and presentations at international science and technology conferences for circulatory support . He was principal investigator on numerous NIH grants and contracts totaling more than $25M. He has published scores of scientific papers and has been issued numerous patents, in the fields of artificial hearts, circulatory support devices, surgical lasers, periodontal diagnostics, and others. His expertise spans beyond R&D. He led the clinical trial for the AbioCor. He was responsible for regulatory efforts at ABIOMED for almost a decade winning FDA approvals for exceptionally sophisticated heart support systems. He frequently serves as a member of an NIH Study Section reviewing SBIR grant applications. Dr. Kung holds a PhD from Cornell University, BS from the City University of New York, and did his postdoctoral research at Yale University.