Chief Executive Officer

Jim West has been actively working on medical device product and company development since earning his MS in biomedical product development from KU (2011), and a Masters Certificate in Entrepreneurship from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (2009) thanks to a grant from the Kauffman Foundation. He has worked in all areas of medical product development.

Chief Science Officer

Dr. Mei He is a professor at the University of Florida. She received her PhD from the University of Alberta and postdoctoral training from UC Berkeley. Since 2015 she has served as a principal investigator and been leading a career in translational medicine involving cutting-edge microfluidic technology, 3D bioprinting, nano-biomaterials, and exosomes. In February 2019 she was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering detecting ovarian cancer through exosomal markers.

Chief Development Officer

Thomas Krol PharmD has a passion to bring new technologies to people who need them. He has worked in large pharma companies like Pfizer and Sanofi in both R&D and commercial roles and in start-ups. Tom also worked as Managing Director of the KBA. He has a B.S. in pharmacy from Ferris State University and PharmD from the University of Utah. He completed a residency at the University of Utah and a fellowship in drug development at the University of North Carolina.