EYE C BETTER - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Officer
Alan has over 20 years of IT experience and 15 years in executive level positions. He has a proven track record with building highly scalable solutions and enabling data monetization strategies that have yielded multi-million-dollar benefits for some of the best-known brands in the world including Avery Dennison, Coca-Cola, Costco, Lexmark & UPS.
Job Titles:
- Digital Healthcare Program Coordinator
Blaine is a resourceful and creative individual, always seeking out new solutions and ideas to overcome challenges. He is a natural leader who inspires and motivates others with his infectious enthusiasm and positive attitude. Blaine's experience spans healthcare operations and technology, with a focus on product development, data analytics, and operations.
Dr. Mohney is a board certified, fellowship-trained pediatric eye surgeon with over 30 years of experience diagnosing and managing pediatric eye diseases. He has served as a physician, researcher, and educator at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for the past 20 years and leads the pediatric ophthalmology fellowship training program. His area of expertise focuses on pediatric eye disorders.
Job Titles:
- Chief Psychiatric Officer
Dr. Jodi Star is a quadruple board certified, as well as Pediatric residency trained, psychiatrist with over 20 years' experience in clinical care, research and education. Currently, Dr. Star serves as the Medical Director of Guiding Light Wellness Center , where she enjoys seeing patients of all ages with a multi-disciplinary approach. She has expertise in the integration and treatment of mental health disorders with medical conditions.
Dr. Kirk Adams is the former President and CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). Dr. Adams is a transformational non-profit leader with 20+ years of nation-wide experience and the proven ability to shape, align and focus an organization's strategic initiatives towards their vision and mission. He has a successful background in legislative advocacy, spanning over 200 visits to congressional offices.
Vice-President of Sales & CGO of EyeMD EMR. EyeMD EMR Healthcare Systems provides electronic medical record software to over 3000 ophthalmologists. Gus joined EyeMD EMR in 2009. His resume also includes working for PCA Health Plans as Supervisor of Premium Accounts Receivables, Practice Implementation Manager for a Physician Consulting Company, Office Administrator for a prestigious rheumatology practice, and an Independent Medical Practice Consultant.
Hayden Brownell, PhD, is an experimental physicist with thirty years' experience developing devices for research and commercial ventures. After a dozen years in academia, Dr. Brownell founded AccelBeam Synthesis, successfully demonstrating immediate, seamless scale up of chemical production from bench top to commercial rates in a novel suite of general-purpose microwave processors.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Founder
Dr. Solano is a board certified, and fellowship trained anterior segment surgeon and glaucoma specialist. He completed his medical training at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic's main campus in Rochester, MN and has over 15 years of experience with diagnosing and treating patients with severe eye disease. Dr Solano's expertise includes medical, laser, and surgical treatments of glaucoma.
Highly trained ophthalmic surgeon with advanced surgical expertise in Cornea, Cataract, Glaucoma, and Refractive Surgery. John is the founder of Equinox, a company developing a product based upon the concept that intraocular pressure (IOP) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure both contribute to glaucoma.
Job Titles:
- Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
Joy is a target driven healthcare transformer with 20 years of executive leadership experience, optimizing go to market strategies and revenue efficiencies for health care. Joy has repeated success in creating top performing teams that bring innovative health care solutions to market. Her experience spans both Audiology and Ophthalmology healthcare, with a focus on tele-health and med-tech solutions that increase patient outcomes and improve quality of life.
Job Titles:
- Director of Corporate Social Responsibility
Lane has over 25 years' experience as a skilled executive and start-up strategist developing and leading nonprofit and for-profit businesses making a social impact. Her expertise includes creation of sustainable business models, strategic planning, program and initiative design and execution, and business and strategic partnership development. Lane has launched more than 12 businesses to success.
Matt has a uniquely diversified analytical skill set that has brought many ideas, opportunities, and people together in multiple environments. For over 25 years he's been aligning key stakeholders within investment management, retail healthcare, and enterprise management. His expertise and tact consistently foster an environment where compliance, liquidity, return on capital, and corporate ambition can simultaneously thrive without sacrificing transparency or clarity with respect to strategic objectives and the means for achieving them.
Patrick has over 15 years of medical device product development experience with project management, technical leadership and hands-on design engineering roles. He has successfully led innovative new product development programs to successful global market launches at Stryker Endoscopy and Nortech Systems, Inc. covering a wide variety of clinical areas and core technologies.
Peter has over 25 years of medical device industry experience and over 15 years in executive level positions. He was founder and CEO of Devicix, a medical device product development firm acquired by Nortech System, Inc (NSYS), Sr. Vice President of Operations and Business Development of Enteromedics (ETRM), and Co-Founder of FocusStart, a medical device technology company.
Tom Lauerman has founded and been a significant investor in more than a dozen companies, where he serves as board member or advisor. Mr. Lauerman has a degree in computer science, was a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, consulted internationally, and was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Tom co-founded GeoAccess, which was recognized three years in a row by Inc. magazine as one of the nation's 500 fastest-growing private companies. With no outside investors, he and his business partner quickly grew the software and internet company to several hundred employees and sold it to United Health Group (UHN), a $30 billion public company.