CALXSTARS - Key Persons


Abby Seiger

Job Titles:
  • Pre - Clinical Studies Assistant Part Time

Alexis Harrison

Job Titles:
  • Lab Research Technician

Alexis Walker

Job Titles:
  • Hurman Resources Consultant Insperity

Allen Turner

Job Titles:
  • Chief Patents Counsel

Amanda Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Customer Service Specialist

Anthony Domenici

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer ( Fractional CFO )

Asli Gozoren

Job Titles:
  • Director of Investor Relations

Ben Boytor

Job Titles:
  • Chief Quality Management Consultant

Brian Hardy - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing

Brian Lasater

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Advisor / Lead Bioengineer

Bruce Methven - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Legal Counsel
  • Corporate Securities Attorney / Advisor to Board of Directors, Leonhardt 's Launchpads

Cynthia Guzman

Job Titles:
  • Hurman Resources Consultant Insperity

David Boyd

Job Titles:
  • Chief Animation Consultant

David Brown

Job Titles:
  • Chief
  • SEO Consultant

Doris A. Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair Scientific Advisory Board
  • Preclinical Research & Cell Culturing

Dr. Catherine Davies

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Investigator

Dr. Cristiane Carboni

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator

Dr. Dipti Itchhaoporia

Job Titles:
  • Chief Cardiology Advisor

Dr. Ghassan Kassab

Job Titles:
  • Chief Pre - Clinical Studies Advisor

Dr. Hans Dohmann

Job Titles:
  • Cardiology and Stroke Advisor - Cardiologist

Dr. John Langell

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor Medical Innovations / Director Center for Medical Innovation / University of Utah

Dr. Jon Sherman

Job Titles:
  • Cardiology Advisor

Dr. Jorge Genovese

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Bioelectric Regeneration Research Director R & D Lab

Dr. Leslie Miller

Job Titles:
  • Board Director
  • Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Mark Kroll

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor Cardiovascular Innovations - Bioelectric / Former CTO St. Jude Medical

Dr. Patrick K. Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Medical Officer EyeCell Scientific Advisory Board, Leonhardt 's Launchpads

Dr. Robert Kellar

Job Titles:
  • Chief Bioengineering Advisor, Board Director

Dr. Ron Waksman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor Cardiovascular Innovations

Dr. Samer Banihani

Job Titles:
  • Chief Nephrology Advisor

Dr. Sanjay Batra

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientific Advisor HairCell

Dr. Scott Marland

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor Bioengineering / Former Executive Director BioInnovations Gateway Utah / Former Center Director University of Utah Manufacturing Extension Partnership ( MEP ) Center

Dr. Stuart Williams

Job Titles:
  • VP of Cardiovascular Research, Board Director

Dr. Tim Henry

Job Titles:
  • Chief Interventional Cardiology Advisor
  • Senior Advisor Cardiology / Director, Division of Cardiology

Dr. Zvonimir Krajcer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Cardiovascular Advisor

Fred Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Professor at SUNY Stony Brook
Professor at SUNY Stony Brook: Technology-based economic development; Higher Education; Research & Policy

Henk Abbink

Job Titles:
  • VP International Market Development / Interim President Stem Cell Bra

Howard J. Leonhardt - CEO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Executive Chairman
Howard J. Leonhardt has at this time complete voting majority of shares for nearly all startups in our accelerator(s) and the accelerator itself. In many cases he has special voting rights for him to maintain his control of ownership through an exit sale. 9. Howard J. Leonhardt and our entire core staff is spread thin across not only the 30 startups in our accelerator but other endeavors. Howard Leonhardt founded Bioheart, Inc. in early 1999 and remained as CEO up to March of 2007 just before its $76 million valuation IPO on NASDAQ in 2008. In 2008 Leonhardt moved from Florida where Bioheart was headquartered and came out California to establish his research laboratory and incubator/accelerator. He was assigned by Bioheart that year to find homes for his own patents, and a few others he acquired with funding he provided himself directly, that they were not developing on their own due to their intense focus on MyoCell and AdipoCell only. Bioheart will receive a 3% royalty on sales or 10% of capital raised for products commercialized that directly read on the claims of those particular patents. It was quickly realized that more data was needed to support the value of those patented inventions before lucrative license deals could be struck and Leonhardt began the work of gathering that data and securing additional new patents. He also got to work in establishing the research collaborations necessary to get this work done and published in peer reviewed journals and presented at major meetings. He established a 35 person Scientific Advisory Board comprised of the leading stem cell scientists, cardiologists, heart failure specialists, vascular surgeons and electro-physiologists https://calxstars.com/scientific-advisory-board/ and a 70 person business management team, mentorship brain trust and advisory board - http://www.calstockexchange.com/team-cal-x/ He financed all these developments from 2008 to 2014 100% on his own up to this current financing where he has opened up for the first time for outside investors to participate in the commercial opportunities for these inventions and innovations via a Reg D 506c offering of Cal-X Stars Business Accelerator, Inc. stock. 8 of the 15 innovations or startups in the social good impact portfolio were founded, developed and totally funded to date by Leonhardt Ventures. Degreed, Chic-CEO, EquityNet, Crowdfunder, Healthiosxchange, Stiletto Dash and The Task Runners were all formed independently outside of Leonhardt Ventures Note- Artists Cafe NYC, KoffeeHouse Music, Radio Veronica USA, Right Clearing, Crowdfund, Lions Den, California Love) all fall under one entity Kindheart Lionheart Media Co. on our charts meaning the accelerator invests in Kindheart Lionheart Media Co. and they invest on in their own portfolio of alliance partners and innovations. 2nd Note - Leonhardt Ventures and Cal-X Stars Business Accelerator, Inc. utilizes The Task Runners for office support services such as payroll, bookkeeping, tax return preparation, scheduling and more.

Jasmin Arredondo - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Accountant

Jeremy Koff

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisory Strategic Development, Board Director / NeuroModulation Business Development Advisor

Joel Aronowitz

Job Titles:
  • Research & Cell Culturing

Jon Dillon

Job Titles:
  • VP of Mergers and Acquisitions Consultant

Karin Koch

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor Business Development, Board Director

Kelsie Leonhardt

Job Titles:
  • Chief Neuroscientist, Lab Researcher

Ken Funahashi

Job Titles:
  • Chief M & a Counsel

Kurt Kruger

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Analyst Consultant

Larry Stevens

Job Titles:
  • Lead FDA Regulatory Advisor

Laurelle Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor B - Alive BladderCell

Lynn Hammerschmidt

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing and Logistics Consultant

Mark Cunningham

Job Titles:
  • Heart Surgeon

Mark Job

Job Titles:
  • FDA 510K Regulatory Consultant

Michael Marino

Job Titles:
  • Chief Employment Counsel

Mina Vallabh

Job Titles:
  • Chief Tax Return Preparation Specialist

Natalie Tinnirello

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant, Secretary Treasurer / Manager Customer Service & Training

Paul Norman

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner Accelerator

Race L. Kao

Job Titles:
  • Stem Cell Scientist & Heart Failure

Samuel S. Ahn

Job Titles:
  • Endovascular Specialist

Sejal Chaudhari

Job Titles:
  • Pre - Clinical Studies Coordinator Part Time

Shaz Rajput

Job Titles:
  • Software Architect at Walmart.Com
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Shiela Pickering

Job Titles:
  • FDA 510K Regulatory Consultant

Tom Newman

Job Titles:
  • President OrthoStim Accelerator / President DentaCell Accelerator