Strategy Group

Mr. James Jordan, Chairman  

Areas of expertise: Marketing, strategy, and investment for the life sciences industry

  • Senior Director, Healthcare & Biotechnology Programs, Distinguished Service Professor in Healthcare and Biotechnology Management, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Chief Investment Officer, Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse
  • Board of Directors, Carmell Therapeutics
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors, Medrobotics, Inc
  • President & CEO, StraTactic, Inc.

Mr. Mark Kwatia, Vice Chairman  

Areas of expertise: Biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, process/product development

  • Diagnostics Assay Design, Abbott Laboratories
  • Senior Advisor, Scientists for Africa
  • Biologics Process Design, Abbott Laboratories (former)
  • Co-Founder & Director of Process/Product Development, OrthoAccel Technologies (former)
  • Senior Research Specialist, University of Illinois Medical Center (former) 

Dr. G. Randall Green, Member  

Areas of expertise: Cardiothoracic surgeon, attorney, medical devices

  • Founder, Secant Therapeutics
  • Program Director, Cardiac Surgery, St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center
  • Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellow, University of Virginia Health System (former)
  • General Surgery Resident, Stanford University Medical Center (former)
  • Cornell University, S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, MBA; Syracuse University College of Law, JD; Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine, MD
    

Dr. Marco Quarta, Member  

Areas of expertise: Biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, R&D

  • Director, Institute for Bioengineering in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
  • BioMed Consultant at Scheiman RF, Inc
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University
  • President, former CEO and Co- Founder, WetWare Concepts S.r.l.
  • Co-founder and former Chairman, Young European Biotech Network (YEBN)

Dr. Kate Rosenbluth, Member  

Areas of expertise: Medical devices, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disease, drug delivery, entrepreneurship

  • Fellow, Stanford Biodesign Innovation Program
  • Lecturer, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
  • Biomedical Imaging Intern, Genentech (former)
  • Post-Doc, Image-Guided Neurosurgery at the University of California San Francisco (former)
  • University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.; Stanford University, B.S.

Dr. James Su, Member  

Areas of expertise: regenerative medicine with specialties in gastrointestinal, ophthalmologic, and cardiovascular systems; medical devices industry; biomaterials R&D; management of biotechnology

  • Senior Research Engineer, Abbott Vascular
  • Materials Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
  • Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Ophtherix (former)
  • William C. Ezell Fellow, American Optometric Foundation (former)
  • Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkley (former)