A strategic healthcare innovation leader. Accomplished in building and leading valuable companies by transforming pioneering technologies into industry-first products; addressing multi-billion dollar market opportunities across digital health, wearables and point-of-care devices for diagnostic imaging, urology, ob-gyn, cardiology, oncology, neurology, and combined drug-device applicationsClinical/market-need-focused entrepreneurial leader with a passion for transforming scientific discoveries into the next generation of meaningful health technology products by marrying sensing, signal/image/data processing, and ML software-based devices with mobile technologies & cloud-based analytics. High-bandwidth hands-on leader with a deep background in creating market-driven Class I/II/III medical products incorporating innovative ways of generating/sensing multi-dimensional signals and then processing the acquired information with algorithm (signal processing/ML/data analytics) driven software.Strong history of transforming research-focused teams into effective QSR-compliant product development organizations that have attracted significant equity investments or have been acquired.Inventor and developer of the Bladder Volume Instrument (now being sold as the BladderScan) that has become the standard of care for bladder management. KEY SKILLS:Taking the big picture approach to identify unmet needs, evaluate markets, analyze IP and develop VOC-driven well-differentiated technology/product strategies and business plans. Building & leading cross-functional, international teams ranging from nuts-and-bolts product engineers to Ph.D level scientists, academic luminaries/KOLs, regulatory experts, business developers and lawyers.Scouting for and creating strong collaborative partnerships with academic groups to transform leading-edge science into innovative products. Creating strong IP portfolios through strategic combinations of licensing and in-house inventions.Creating effective clinical study designs and regulatory strategies in collaboration with KOLs, domain experts and the FDA.Multi-disciplinary expertise in disposable sensor, photonic, ultrasonic, imaging, MI and algorithm/software-driven information technologies.Authoring winning SBIRs and using them to develop commercially successful products as the PI.Providing hands-on expertise in QSR compliance and related QE issues.Hands-on prototyping of algorithms and systems using LabView, Matlab and Python.