Senior Management Team
Richard Davis
Founder & CEO
Richard Davis
Founder & CEO
Poseidon Medical Inc., Founder & CEO Richard Davis, is a visionary entrepreneur and business professional. Davis, who has an M.S. in engineering, was the driving force behind successful ventures such as Orbus Medical Technologies (OrbusNeich), XableCath Inc., and Tryton Medical Inc.Under Richard's leadership, Poseidon Medical Inc. has created a breakthrough medical device technology that holds the promise of saving limbs from amputation, enhancing the quality of life, and increasing the life expectancy for CLI patients. Throughout his distinguished, three decade career in the medical device industry, Richard has exhibited an exceptional track record of inventing and introducing cutting-edge medical devices. Not only has he led the development of innovative products, but he has also adeptly constructed robust business infrastructures to support them. His strategic leadership has encompassed various aspects of new product development, including, but not limited to, design, cultivation of intellectual property portfolios, execution of clinical studies, and the leadership of sales forces during product launches in Europe and the United States.
Richard's collaborative efforts with global thought leaders have enabled him to foresee market demands and drive innovation. As the founder of multiple medical device companies, he has established enduring key thought leader relationships, clinical and marketing pathways, quality systems, supplier networks, and operational strategies, that have helped to ensure the swift development and successful commercialization of groundbreaking products.
John Vacha
Chief Financial Officer
John Vacha
Chief Financial Officer
John Vacha has 25 years' experience in the healthcare industry. Mr. Vacha has had 3 successful M&A exits in the last 10 years holding the role of CEO and/or CFO of those medical device companies. He has served as CEO or CFO of over 10 medical device companies during his career and has raised over $100M in funding over that time. Mr. Vacha also served as Senior Con- sultant at Deloitte, where his clients included closely held high-tech manufacturing start-up companies, as well as large retail and manufacturing corporations. John is a licensed CPA, holds a MBA and an MS in Accounting from Northeastern Uni- versity in Boston, Massachusetts. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors at the South Boston Health Center and holds three patents in electrosurgical instrumentation.
Liz Groover
Marketing
Liz Groover
Marketing
Liz Groover is an experienced marketing executive who is passionate about driving market adoption for meaningful medical device innovations. She has 25 years of experience in leading successful marketing organizations in multi-national and early-stage companies across multiple specialties and device classes. Liz is known for her out of the box thinking, ability to make the complex simple and knack for creating winning market development strategies.
Margaret (Meg) Yoklavich Guilhermier
Clinical Affairs
Margaret (Meg) Yoklavich Guilhermier
Clinical Affairs
Margaret (Meg) Yoklavich Guilhermier has over 25 years of experience in the medical device industry. Ms. Guilhermier has held positions in product research and development and clinical research for interventional cardiology, radiology, and neuroradiology, cardiac electrophysiology, and minimally invasive thoracic surgery companies. She has published numerous articles and holds several patents in these fields. Meg earned a BSc in biology from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Matthew S. Solar, P.E.
Manufacturing
Matthew S. Solar, P.E.
Manufacturing
Matt has spent the past 30 years developing medical devices and has over 100 issued US patents. He has worked for several large medical device companies including Medtronic and Boston Scientific and he has participated in several successful startup companies. Matt earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Valparaiso University and an M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Florida. He is a registered Professional Engineer currently licensed in both the state of California and Florida. Together with Craig Pagan, they founded C2C Development in 2008.
John Pazienza
Engineering
John Pazienza
Engineering
Craig Pagan
Quality
Craig Pagan
Quality
Craig has over 30 years of experience in the medical device industry, and he has also worked with large med tech firms like Boston Scientific and Medtronic, as well as a number of start-ups along the way. His areas of expertise include quality systems, regulatory submissions (FDA and ISO), product and process validation, project management, FDA and ISO audits and certification, as well as post market compliance. He has prepared and obtained FDA 510(k) clearances for devices from the Cardiovascular, Neurology, General and Plastic Surgery, and Ear, Nose and Throat panels of the FDA.
Michelle Hasse
Regulatory
Michelle Hasse
Regulatory
Board Members
Paul Enever, PhD
Paul Enever, PhD
Paul Enever is a Managing Director at Evidity Health Capital. He has worked in the healthcare industry with a focus on medtech for nearly 20 years. Before co-founding Evidity, Paul was a partner at McKinsey and Company. In his 12 years at McKinsey, he advised leading organizations across the biopharma, medtech, hospital, and healthcare services industries primarily in the U.S. and Europe as well as private equity firms specializing in healthcare. Paul’s work focused on growth strategy, sales and marketing, and licensing and acquisition. Previously, he worked within the R&D organization at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals and MIT’s Biotechnology Process Engineering Center.
Alejandro Sanchez
Alejandro Sanchez
Alejandro Sanchez co-founded Evidity Health Capital with Paul Enever in 2014. He has nearly a decade of experience in PE/VC investing and has been advising boards and C-suite executives in the technology sector on commercialization, operations, and strategy for nearly 20 years.
Richard Davis
Richard Davis
Founder & CEO
Poseidon Medical Inc., Founder & CEO Richard Davis, is a visionary entrepreneur and business professional. Davis, who has an M.S. in engineering, was the driving force behind successful ventures such as Orbus Medical Technologies (OrbusNeich), XableCath Inc., and Tryton Medical Inc.Under Richard's leadership, Poseidon Medical Inc. has created a breakthrough medical device technology that holds the promise of saving limbs from amputation, enhancing the quality of life, and increasing the life expectancy for CLI patients. Throughout his distinguished, three decade career in the medical device industry, Richard has exhibited an exceptional track record of inventing and introducing cutting-edge medical devices. Not only has he led the development of innovative products, but he has also adeptly constructed robust business infrastructures to support them. His strategic leadership has encompassed various aspects of new product development, including, but not limited to, design, cultivation of intellectual property portfolios, execution of clinical studies, and the leadership of sales forces during product launches in Europe and the United States.
Richard's collaborative efforts with global thought leaders have enabled him to foresee market demands and drive innovation. As the founder of multiple medical device companies, he has established enduring key thought leader relationships, clinical and marketing pathways, quality systems, supplier networks, and operational strategies, that have helped to ensure the swift development and successful commercialization of groundbreaking products.
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