President

• Lead key strategic developments in senior executive positions for more than 21 years at Olympus Corporation and Gyrus ACMI
• Assisted in the creation and implementation of Olympus’s RF product development, reimbursement strategies, and procedure development
• Launched revolutionary technologies of the PK Generator and instrumentation to The Thunderbeat system which combines bipolar RF energy with ultrasonics

Board Director

• Founder & former CEO MetPro Group.
• Former shareholder Floeter Retort pouches, Acq by ProAmpac.
• Major Investor in BioFuse.

Chairman Board of Directors  

• Former CEO & President of Wright Medical Group.
• Past President & CEO of United Orthopedic Group.

Advisory Board Chair

30+ years of medical device experience with over 250 devices through the FDA.

Previous Positions:

• CEO, Epica International
• President, Live Tissue Connect, Inc.
• Executive VP, CTO, Gyrus Corporation
• Chief Manufacturing Officer, ACMI

Chief Medical Advisor

• Executive Director of Colorectal Surgery at AdventHealth, Orlando.
• Former chair of the U.K.’s National Training Program.
• Advanced fellowship training at Mayo Clinic in surgical oncology, vascular surgery and colon and rectal surgery.
• Presented more than 1000 lectures around the world, authored 400+ original published papers, four books, and more than 250 book chapters.

“For all surgeons, anastomotic leaking is the most dreaded of complications and continues to be the leading cause of post-operative mortality after colorectal surgery. It’s time for a new approach to creating the safest anastomosis.”  John Monson, M.D.