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 Board of Directors



 
 Name  Affiliation
 Sam Spadafora  Chairman
 Oostur Raza  Co-Founder, CEO and President
 David Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD  Professor of Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine
 Edward DeWees, MD  Family Medical Practitioner
 Don Morrison  Board Member and Executive Vice President


Sam Spadafora, Chairman of the Board brings over 40 years executive experience leading numerous private and public companies. Sam serves on a number of early stage venture funded company boards. Previous executive experience includes: CEO of Chordiant; executive management roles with Sun, SCO, Memorex, and Honeywell.

Oostur Raza, Co-Founder, President and CEO of OmegaGenesis has over 40 years of engineering, technology, business and executive experience. Oostur's management roles include: General Electric, Fujitsu , Adobe, Sun Microsystems, and a variety of other technology companies. Oostur started his career as a Nuclear Engineer with General Electric where he designed nuclear plant fuel and cores and worked with rare earth elements. He is the recipient GE Thomas Edison Award and has a MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.

David Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine; Director, Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA); and Member of American Board of Podiatric Surgery, 1999. Dr. Armstrong is a podiatric surgeon and researcher most widely known for his work in amputation prevention, diabetic foot and wound healing. Research areas include wound healing, amputation prevention, infectious diseases, biomechanics, epidemiology of diabetes complications, clinical inflammatory markers (thermography), non-invasive imaging/testing systems; bioinformatics and personal health networks and monitoring.

Edward DeWees, MD, is a Family Medical Practitioner with 35 years of experience focused on prevention and human body management. Dr DeWees is affiliated with Campbell Family Practice, Los Gatos Community Hospital; Good Samaritan Hospital; Emory University Fellow of American Board of Family Practice, and member of the American Academy of Family Practice.

Don Morrison, Executive Vice President, is responsible for the Company's partnerships, industry relations, marketing and strategic planning. Don brings 28 years of operating and executive experience building companies from early stage to public companies. Previous experience includes: President of Chordiant; CEO of Remend; Vice President Marketing, Nielsen/SMI; Vice President, Sales, SCO: and VP Marketing, Altos/Acer Computers. Don serves on a number of early stage venture funded boards. Don received his MBA, Golden Gate University and BS Business, San Francisco State University.