Management

Russ Houser - CEO & Chairman

• 20 years medical device development and management experience.
• More than 18 medical device product lines brought to market.
• Over 115 issued and pending medical device patents.
• 80% interventional cardiology, 20% cardiac surgery projects.

Darel Hodgson, Ph.D - Material Scientist

• Dr. Hodgson is a recognized authority on properties, fabrication and device issues regarding Nitinol alloys.
• President, Nitinol Technology, Inc.
• Founded Shape Memory Applications (SMA) which was later sold to Johnson Matthey, Inc.
• Chairman of the ASM Strategic Planning Committee involved with meeting the materials needs of the medical community.

Bill Flickinger - VP Marketing

• 19 years of domestic and international medical device sales and marketing experience.
• Experience with interventional, long-term implantable devices, and capital equipment; working for start-ups and multi-billion dollar, multinational companies.

Casey McGlynn (Partner, WSG&R - Palo Alto, Ca) - Lead Corporate Attorney

• Recognized in the 2006 and 2007 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, most recently in the top tier of California life sciences attorneys.
• Selected for inclusion in the 2007 edition of The Legal 500 US Named in 2006 and 2007 as a Northern California "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics magazine.
• Selected for inclusion in the 2006 and 2007 editions of Best Lawyers in America.

Vito Canuso (Partner, KMOB - Irvine, Ca) - Lead Intellectual Property Attorney

• Has been a partner with Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear since 1995.
• Practice includes both IP litigation and patent and trademark prosecution matters.
• His patent prosecution docket is focused primarily on medical devices for numerous life sciences companies in primarily cardiovascular and pulmonary fields.

Medical Advisors

Antonio Colombo, M.D., F.A.C.C. - Medical Advisor

• Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at EMO Centro Cuore Columbus Hospital, Milano (IT) and Chief of Invasive Cardiology at San Raffaele Hospital, Milano (IT) and is currently visiting professor at Columbia University School of Medicine (New York) NY.
• Dr. Colombo has authored numerous articles, is a member of both European and U.S. professional societies and serves on the editorial boards of Circulation, the Journal of Invasive Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and several other major heart journals.

Charles J. Davidson, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.S.C.A.I. - Medical Advisor

• Director of Interventional Cardiology Program, Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School.
• Chief, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago.

Carlo Pappone - M.D., PhD, F.A.C.C. - Medical Advisor

• Director, Department of Cardiology, Electrophysiology and Cardiac Pacing Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milano (IT).