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Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Columbia University in the City of New York

University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business

Cornell University

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Medical College of Wisconsin

University of Washington

Chief Executive Officer at IntuitiveX

Seattle, Washington, United States

IntuitiveX is a life science consultancy and incubator created to help entrepreneurs and startups transform their ideas from concept to commercialization.We are a team of business, legal, clinical, scientific and intellectual property domain experts with over 50+ years of combined experience who provide a full spectrum of services to entrepreneurs and startups including:• Full-service consultation and incubation of life science startups• Business and legal execution of IP strategy• Prototype testing, validation, & development• Executive leadership sourcing and recruitment• Financing and capital fund raising• Regulatory guidance through FDA submission & approval • Commercialization of ideas into successful products and servicesAt IntuitiveX, our mission is to bring real change to real life. We see the potential in ideas, and apply our resources to make them possible. Our collective expertise is our most powerful asset, and our aim is to serve people just like ourselves. People with a passion for change, the drive to innovate, and the desire to make a positive impact on the world around us. By working together, we can deliver smarter solutions and improve the lives of people, every day.We are the driving force behind medical innovation, serving as an incubator for ideas and catalysts of change.

IntuitiveX

Chief Executive Officer & Board Chair

Perfect Day Productions is a growing Seattle-based interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with the goal of combining passion for creating rewarding experiences with deep knowledge of free-to-play mobile gaming.

Perfect Day Productions

Investor

Carlsmed is a technology-enabled medical device company leveraging AI and Machine Learning technologies and prior outcomes data to personalize the treatment of complex adult spinal deformities. The company’s proprietary aprevo system develops surgical plans and patient-specific devices tailored to the precise medical situation of each individual patient. Carlsmed is transforming the next innovation in healthcare by affording surgeons the tools to obtain better, more consistent results at a lower cost of treatment, thereby helping adults regain their active lifestyles.

Carlsmed, Inc.

Board Member

AOSpine Fellowships provide budding spine surgeons with the opportunity to work in some of the world's top spine centers and learn from the best in the field. Swedish Neuroscience Institute is a designated AOSpine fellowship site – one out of only 22 elite spine fellowship programs designated by AO North America.Spine fellows we have trained:2008 Benjamin MacLennan, MD2009 Zachary Kelly, MD, PharmD2010 Stefan Renaud, DO2018 Amir Abdul Jabar, MD2017 Tom O’Lynnger, MD2018 Tamir Tawfik, MD2018 Ronen Blecher, MD, PhD2019 Andrew Jack, MD2019 Brooks Osburn, MD2019 Wyatt Ramey, MD2019 Zane Tymchak, MD2020 Chris Elia, DO2020 Ryan Goodmanson, DO2020 Eric Hayman, MD2020 Edward Jung, MD2020 Bilal Qutteineh, MD2020 Benjamin Schnell, MD2020 Clifford Pierre, MD

AO North America

Attending Spine Surgeon

Shoot My Travel is a global travel photographer marketplace that pairs travelers with local professional photographers to help capture their memories on demand in over 450 cities worldwide.

Shoot My Travel

Sentinel Healthcare is the first comprehensive remote management solution for hypertension. Their cloud-based platform facilitates communication with care teams to monitor patients between visits and achieve blood pressure control more quickly than the current standard of care.

Sentinel Healthcare

Jiobit is the world's smallest and most advanced real-time location tracking solution. With best-in-class encryption technology, Jiobit allows parents to track their child's real-time location from anywhere – giving parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids.

Jiobit

Hunniwater is a startup beverage company on a mission to Share Kindness one sip at a time. We offer great tasting, natural beverages to the market that we can feel fantastic about drinking and sharing with everyone we love. We're building kindness with the kindness of our community! Hunniwater Kindness is Sparkling Honey Water with a splash of fruit - it's Kindness in a Can!

Hunniwater by Hunni Co.

Board Member & Investor

Klickly is a smart, impulse-payments technology that enables purchases directly within digital ads and other digital interfaces. Their proprietary impulse-payments technology creates new revenue streams in hard-to-monetize spaces and super-charges display campaigns with exciting engagement and actual in-ad sales.

Klickly

Panda is a voice-activated AR platform that allows you to talk with superpowers. All of your inside jokes and favorite characters can be triggered with voice-recognition and natural language processing. You talk and Panda magically brings your words to life.

Panda

DePuy Synthes Spine is the second largest spine company in the world with one of the most comprehensive portfolios of spinal care solutions that address key areas including thoracolumbar, cervical, aging spine, interbody fusion, and minimally invasive surgery.

DePuy Synthes Institute, LLC

Faculty Member & Consultant

Blokable is helping solve one of today’s greatest problems: a lack of housing where and when it’s needed the most. By integrating construction, software and services into a single framework, Blokable empowers architects, local governments and change agents to build communities, incentivize sustainable city planning, and solve for one of the greatest problems of our time.

Blokable, Inc.

Joylux creates innovative health solutions targeting the enormous, but underserved female intimate care market. vSculpt and vFit are the world's first home-use vaginal rejuvenation devices using light-energy (red and infrared LEDs), gentle heat and sonic technology to treat the vaginal tissue and pelvic floor muscles to help improve intimate wellness.

Joylux, Inc

The LAUNCH Incubator Fund selects founders who are executing at an extremely high level in markets that are important. We look for world-class product design, growth strategies, and technical execution -- said simply, people with skills. We seek individuals who are deeply passionate and who possess a tremendous work ethic.

LAUNCH

Limited Partner

Stably (STBL) is a reserve-backed stablecoin that is designed to work across multiple blockchain protocols. Stably utilizes a proven centralized model to fully back every token issued with 1.00 USD in a transparent reserve managed by Stably Labs, the central issuer of STBL. This stability in the market price of STBL relative to USD will be made possible by natural market forces and direct token supply adjustment by Stably Labs via open market operations.

Stably

Cafe X Technologies is focused on increasing productivity in the service industry through automation. Their first product offering is a robotic cafe that serves the highest quality coffee in virtually seconds, the way that roasters intended.

Cafe X Technologies

Ad Lightning is bringing transparency and control to programmatic advertising. Ad Lightning’s complete set of ad quality tools save time, improve page performance, and eliminate costly UX problems for publishers and ad platforms. Their proprietary tech platform and customizable ad scoring methodology assesses the overall quality of the ads on a website and instantly alerts customers of performance, compliance, and/or malicious security issues caused by the advertisements.

Ad Lightning

Strix Leviathan is an AI-driven algorithmic trading platform engineered to beat cryptocurrency market returns. They are developing software for enterprises wrestling with the challenges of managing cryptocurrencies. Strix Leviathan’s team of technologists and data scientists are applying decades of applied mathematics, computing, and cloud infrastructure knowledge to solve complex problems.

Strix Leviathan

Minimally Invasive Spine SurgerySwedish Neuroscience InstituteSince its inception in 1910, Swedish Medical Center has been the hallmark for excellence in healthcare. Swedish has consistently been named one of the best and largest non-profit health providers in the region.Swedish serves as one of the flagship hospitals for Providence St. Joseph Health system—one of the largest non-profit health organizations in the U.S.—which represents nearly 120,000 caregivers who serve in more than 800 clinics and 51 hospitals in the West. I serve as the Director of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at the Swedish Neuroscience Institute.

Swedish

Director

Founders Co-op is one of the leading seed-stage investment fund in the Pacific Northwest. We help extraordinary founding teams build companies that the best venture capital firms in the world choose to back. Founders Co-op also provides guidance and financial support for Tech Stars, a community of fellow founder operators with hard-fought experience and personal networks spanning every aspect of building, scaling, and exiting high-growth technology businesses.

Founders Co-op

Critical Informatics is a world-class information security firm providing Cybersecurity-As-A-Service (CAAS) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services to help organizations maintain security, compliance, and resilience against threats to the safety, life-sustaining, and quality-of-life systems and services they provide to their clients, customers, and communities.I serve on the Healthcare Board of Advisors for Critical Informatics.

Critical Informatics Inc.

Healthcare Board of Advisors

Critical Informatics is a world-class information security firm providing Cybersecurity-as-a-Service (CaaS) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services to help organizations maintain security, compliance, and resilience against threats to the safety, life-sustaining, and quality-of-life systems and services they provide to their clients, customers, and communities.

Helia Care is revolutionizing how healthcare facilities and vendors work together. Their cloud-based, HIPPA-compliant software solution provides an innovative platform for hospitals and implant manufacturers to connect and realize cost-saving initiatives. Helia Care’s mission is to provide thoughtful solutions for today’s healthcare system and to pave the way for the future of healthcare.

Helia Care, Inc.

Mindshare Medical has developed a revolutionary, evidence-based AI/ML clinical decision support technology. Their innovative solution provides personalized diagnostics and guidance on the effectiveness of follow-up procedures and treatments for lung and breast cancer. Their proprietary approach is intended to dramatically improve quality of patient care via early cancer detection and reduce financial liability for healthcare organizations.

Mindshare Medical

Transpara Health is on a mission to democratize healthcare and empower individuals to own their own health through technology, accessibility, and affordability. We provide patients with much needed transparency to pricing and access to their own personal medical records. For healthcare professionals, we provide a platform to deliver high quality, personalized healthcare. In essence, Transpara provides an easy-to-use platform for patients to find and connect with the healthcare professionals of their choice. I serve as Transpara Health's Chief Medical Officer.

Transpara Health

Advisor

Sharkbite Games, Inc, is building free-to-play mobile video games that address the gap by bringing PC social components into the mobile world in a unique multiplayer RPG experience.

Sharkbite Games, Inc.

Hero Sports' mission is to advance interest and appreciation for small-school athletics through aggregating and publicizing stories about teams, players, fans, and coaches. They are creating an online platform capable of capturing and promoting newsworthy stories in collegiante athletics across the country.

HERO Sports

Amplify Surgical is a medical device company developing innovative surgical solutions that transform ordinary implants and instruments into clinically-relevant surgical systems that provide successful clinical results. We have broadened the standard of care in minimally invasive spine surgery by creating dualX, a best-in-class, dual expanding interbody fusion system.I serve as the Chairman of the Board for Amplify Surgical.

Amplify Surgical

Board Chair

Ni-Q is based on a single premise: saving the lives of premature infants.  In the critical first stages of life, premature infants need the best nutrition possible.  Traditionally the source of that nutrition is their mother’s breast milk.  Ni-Q has developed a safe and unique way to produce and package a shelf stable, non-refrigerated, commercially sterile Human Donor Milk (HDM™).

Ni-Q

Alliance of Angels is the largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest. Each year, we invest $10M+ into 20+ companies. Since 1997, we have invested $100M+ into 200+ companies and celebrated 40+ exits generating more than a billion dollars of returns. Our network of 140+ active angel investors is further augmented by a $6.6M seed fund.

Alliance of Angels

Providence Ventures  -  Strategy & InnovationProvidence Ventures is a $300M capital fund aimed at driving innovations across the health care system to improve quality and convenience, lower cost, and create better health outcomes for all patients.

Providence Health & Services

Strategy & Innovation Consultant

Applied NanoBiology™ is the intersection between nanotechnology and biology. Artoss scientists apply their knowledge of physics and biology to create new nanostructured biomaterials for bone repair. This represents A New Dimension in Bone Repair™.

Artoss, Inc.

Swedish Integrated Spine Program  -  Spine Surgery Task ForceSince its inception in 1910, Swedish Medical Center has been the hallmark for excellence in healthcare. Swedish has consistently been named one of the best and largest non-profit health providers in the region.Swedish serves as one of the flagship hospitals for Providence St. Joseph Health system—one of the largest non-profit health organizations in the U.S.—which represents nearly 120,000 caregivers who serve in more than 800 clinics and 51 hospitals in the West. I serve as the Chair of the Spine Surgery Task Force for Swedish’s Integrated Spine Program.

Chairman

Kineta is an emerging and sustainable biotech company that efficiently advances therapies from discovery to clinical proof of concept. They actively collaborate with a broad array of private, government and industry partners to advance their cutting-edge, innovative research. Kineta has established and expands on a diverse pipeline of novel life improving therapies that address critical unmet patient needs.

Kineta, Inc.

Resolute Medical is a medical device company whose primary mission is to serve medics and other healthcare providers who save lives in tough conditions. Their innovative line of products are specifically designed and built for the rugged environments that medics face when in harm’s way.  MedicECG™ is a lightweight, ruggedized ECG unit built for use in tough conditions.

Resolute Medical, Inc.

VICIS is a Seattle-based, technology-focussed company dedicated to protecting the athlete and elevating the game. Their ZERO1 football helmet is a multilayered, highly-engineered product that mitigates linear and rotational impact forces. By using their expertise in engineering and medicine to protect young athletes, VICIS was chosen as one of three finalists of the NFL's Head Health Challenge in 2015.

VICIS, Inc.

Stryker is a global leader in the medical technology industry. Their primary focus is on high-quality, innovative products and services that create cost-effective solutions that improve patients' lives.About a decade ago, I assigned IP involving a minimally invasive platform to Stryker. Since then, I've served on several of Stryker's surgical design and innovation teams and was instrumental in the development of Stryker's most commercially successful minimally invasive spine system of all time, ES2, as well as their marquee lateral access platform, ARIA.

Stryker

Mimimally Invasive Spine Surgical Design & Innovation Consultant

The Arthritis Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, control and cure of arthritis in the United States. AF helps conquer everyday battles through life-changing information and resources, access to optimal care, advancements in science, and community connections. Our goal is to chart a winning course, guide families in developing personalized plans for living a full life, and making each day another stride towards a cure for arthritis. I serve as the Chair of the Leadership Board of Directors for the Arthritis Foundation in Washington state.

Arthritis Foundation

WINGS is a life science angel network that facilitates seed and early stage investments for medical technology companies. Our mission is to close the gap in early stage funding to help accelerate the translation of medical technology innovation.

WINGS, The Washington Medical Technology Angel Network

SMISS is the premier society of spine surgeons who specialize in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS).Our Mission is to create knowledge and deliver standard programs, tools, and techniques that raise the competencies and quality of our global member communities and inspire them to continuously improve patient safety, patient outcomes, patient satisfaction and the cost-effectiveness of MISS.

Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SMISS)

Faculty & Scientific Program Committee Member

KASS serves to improve the quality of scientific knowledge, patient care, and clinical practice among professionals in the field of spinal disorders and promote social and cultural interaction between Korean American and Korean spine specialists.

Korean American Spine Society

President

ProOrtho  -  Division of Proliance SurgeonsProliance Surgeons is one of the largest and most respected surgical practices in the country. Specializing in Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, ENT, Plastic Surgery, General Surgery and Ophthalmology, our best-in-class physicians provide the highest level of healthcare services at over 70 locations in Washington state.

Proliance Surgeons

President & Executive Board Chair

Founded in 1987, the Puget Sound Spine Society is the premier regional organization of healthcare professionals in the Pacific Northwest whose goal is to establish a forum to establish, discuss, and disseminate best practices in the care of patients with spinal disorders.

Puget Sound Spine Society

Medical Director

EvergreenHealth

Voting Member

Orthopedics International

Partner and Board Member

Founded in 1863, the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is a world leader in orthopedics, rheumatology and rehabilitation. HSS was nationally ranked No. 1 in orthopedics by U.S.News & World Report in 2015-16. HSS is a member of the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System and an affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College. The hospital's research division is internationally recognized as a leader in the investigation of musculoskeletal diseases. Hospital for Special Surgery is located in New York City.

Hospital for Special Surgery

Senior Clinical Associate  -  Spine & Scoliosis Fellow

Since its inception in 1982, MetroHealth Life Flight's priorities have been to provide the highest level of care to those in need while implementing the highest safety standards in the industry. Our team consisted of an outstanding group of flight physicians, nurses, medics, flight communication specialists, pilots, and support personnel. Each and every Metro Life Flight mission was to maximize safety and provide medical care to critically injured patients.With three state-of-the-art helicopters, a critical care ground unit based at MetroHealth, and the support of The MetroHealth System, we worked closely with EMS and other referring hospitals to provide ease of access to all of our partners through our highly acclaimed Life Flight programs. I served as a flight surgeon and member of the MetroHealth Life Flight team from 2001 to 2003.

Jeffrey Roh

Jeffrey Roh