Tom Blackadar

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CTO and COO @ Boston, MA, US
Boston, MA, US
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Greater Boston, United States, United States
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About Tom Blackadar

I enjoy looking for a new solutions for today's technology challenges. I enjoy the strategic opportunities of competing in today's wearable and wireless healthcare marketplace, and developing strong IP strategies to help understand freedom to operate, build barriers, and how to protect and defend IP.

Tom Blackadar's Current Company Details
AION Biosystems Inc

Aion Biosystems Inc

CTO and COO
Boston, MA, US
Tom Blackadar Work Experience Details
  • Aion Biosystems Inc
    Cto And Coo
    Aion Biosystems Inc
    Boston, Ma, Us
  • Aion Biosystems Inc
    Cto/Coo
    Aion Biosystems Inc Jun 2021 - Present
    AION Biosystems Inc. Is building some kick-butt FDA 510k wearables-
  • Fitsense Consulting Llc
    Ceo/Founder
    Fitsense Consulting Llc Nov 2014 - Present
    FitSense Technology LLC is a consulting company. We help startups, big companies and those in-between. At FitSense we help small companies dodge bullets in the early stages. Help them plan their future growth. We consult on designs, freedom to operate, and potential IP white space to capture. We help navigate distribution, direct and marketing strategies. We help big companies defend their IP.
  • Fitsense Technology
    General Manager
    Fitsense Technology Nov 2014 - Present
    Wearable Technology and IP consultant.
  • Canyon Ranch
    Canyon Ranch Institute Advisory Group Distruptive Health Technologies
    Canyon Ranch Sep 2014 - Sep 2024
  • Third Pole Therapeutics
    Principal Systems Engineer/Manager Electrical Engineering
    Third Pole Therapeutics Aug 2017 - Jun 2021
    Waltham, Ma, Us
    Third Pole is a growing cardiopulmonary therapeutics company working with world-class partners to develop unique and disruptive therapies that will have an immediate impact, saving lives on a global scale. Third Pole’s first therapy, a tank-free, nitric oxide delivery system, offers a revolutionary solution enabling newborn babies, who currently lack access to this medicine, the ability to be treated.
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  • Fitlinxx
    Coo
    Fitlinxx Aug 2007 - Feb 2015
    Shelton, Ct, Us
    After the merger of FitLinxx and FitSense I took on the Role of COO and CTO. The COO role mainly consisted of bringing the two companies together and re-vamping the NT based FitLinxx Club business to remove about 50% of the manufacturing cost, reduce the infrastructure costs, and improve the installation and support of the multi-national product, while still controlling the manufacturing of the wearable products we did at FitLinxx. Lots of fun an heart ache. It's tough being the first activity monitor out there- without a smart phone, but we were the leaders in the space of employee wellness devices until... As roles shifted to more CTO in 2010 I started writing more IP, developing new sensor platforms and participated in industry consortium leaving the COO role to the CFO. Here I provided an architecture and a patent for a new type of health monitor which later became the Ampstrip. The architecture and the patent application is unique to the IoT as a true data fusion multi-sensor system for health care.
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  • Fit-C
    Board Member
    Fit-C 2012 - Feb 2014
  • Fitsense Technology
    Ceo/Founder
    Fitsense Technology Jan 1997 - Aug 2007
    Us
    Starting with a blank sheet of paper created a company to put the human body on line. One of the original wearable companies. At FitSense I learned what it takes to run a small business with little to no capital and how to raise money, do big deals with elephants, and to build out an organization from scratch. Where to outsource and where to invest in ourselves. The team is still today mostly intact at FitLinxx the company we merged with in 2007. We were part of a few companies (Body Media being the other significant player), that went after wearables in the 1990's. We survived the DOT com bust because we had a unique consumer product. We only had the Angel round and a Series A. We never took venture money after 2000 (would of if we could have- thanks DB :).At FitSense we developed three very successful consumer products. The Reebok Traxtar, FS-1 speed distance monitor and the Nike+ in shoe sensor. We built a system for the US Army called the WPSM, that did GPS/Activity/Sleep/Heart Rate/Core Body Tempearture/Skin temperature/ and long haul communications to the internet. (Either a Sprint phone, or 20 mile Sierra wireless interface). We parleyed this into a great Discovery TV movie, and a live on internet2 data visualization with moving maps of climbers on Mount Everest.We had fun building a product for John Glenn and the space shuttle STS-92 for his space flight and parleyed that into miner in Australia going the other direction deep into the center of the earth.We even got to play in the Olympic Trials in 2000 putting two wearables on Michael Johnson as he smashed records in the 440.The final achievement of FitSense was our end-to-end system for employee wellness (2006) that allowed employees from anywhere the ability to seemlessly send data to the cloud (before it was called a cloud). We took the unique approach then of doing all pairing in the cloud.We got the body on line.
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  • Bbn Technologies
    Department Manager, Director Of Operations, System Engineer, Vlsi Engineer,Test Engineer
    Bbn Technologies 1982 - 1997
    For those who don't know- BBN Invented the internet (along with Dr. Cerf and others). Frank Heart was responsible for deploying the first nodes in 1968, and I worked for Frank Heart and others at BBN which is considered the third university in Cambridge MA. BBN was also involved heavily in DARPA work, acoustics, sensor systems, artificial intelligence, and database visualization. BBN did the first timeshared operating system and holds a few patents on the original modem to connect to this time shared computer. At BBN I started as a Test Engineer on the manufacturing floor developing product test equipment that turned into diagnostic equipment for the ARPA net. I participated in the UDP protocol to ensure that the diagnostics could run at that layer. I was the test engineer assigned to the parallel processing group- and soon after that, they absorbed me into that group as their systems engineer, taking the VLSI switch chip into production and developing the IO subsystem for that product. I was also responsible for getting the entire system into production, and delivery. This system was called the Butterfly Parallel Processor. BBN then decided to spin out the Parallel processor group into a wholly owed subsidiary where I took on the additional responsibilities of commercializing the Butterfly and building the operational sustaining engineering, and support, while still providing the systems engineering for the next gen parallel processor TC2000. BBN sold this group to Cisco.I was asked to stay behind and help rebuild the Advanced Networking group (under Steve Blumenthal and Frank Heart), and continue the support operations for the supper computers deployed. Here is where I took over the Pathfinder project that Thad Starner (Google Glass), started before he went back to MIT(1991/1992). This was my start into wearables. Here I grew the department to 80 people from assemblers to Phd scientists. Until BBN was sold in 1997.

Tom Blackadar Skills

Start Ups Product Development Strategic Partnerships Entrepreneurship Strategy Management Product Management Strategic Planning Cross Functional Team Leadership Business Development Integration Medical Devices Marketing Strategy New Business Development Leadership Software Development Program Management Saas Project Management Healthcare Team Building Product Marketing Public Speaking Competitive Analysis Sales Management Enterprise Software Cloud Computing Mergers And Acquisitions Mergers Fitness

Tom Blackadar Education Details

  • University Of New Hampshire
    University Of New Hampshire
    Electrical Engineering And Computer Science Concentration

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