Business Development
  

Mike Mesenbrink is an Associate of Plethora Businesses conducting M&A and business brokerage activities. He works with numerous industries including medical device and services. He has been in the medical business for 34 years and has been a serial entrepreneur for the last 24 when he was actively involved with both private and public companies. He spent much of his time Starting, Growing, and Raising Capital (over $200 Million) for early stage companies creating an overall market cap of approximately $750MM.

Highlights of his background include CEO of a large bariatric laparoscopic surgery practice and he served as CEO of Innovation Sports Medicine; an international manufacturer of sports medicine devices. He was EVP of Medstone Int’l that went public and he was co founder and EVP of the first outpatient medical imaging company in the U.S., Medical Imaging Centers of America (MICA) that went public and grew to a market cap of $250MM. He was also a founder of Insight Health Services in Lake Forest (both public and private) that currently reports over $300MM in revenues. At J&J he served on the team that developed the first clinical MRI system. Mike serves on the board of directors and audit committee of Pro-Dex; a public medical device company and has been in the medical industry for 34 years.

At Johnson & Johnson Mike was a member of the New Ventures Team that developed the first clinical MRI system. Mike’s concept of comprehensive outpatient radiology services eventually developed into a new industry; now with over 5000 sites throughout the U.S. owned by numerous companies. He has worked with many products including MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Cardiac Nuclear Medicine, Mammography, artificial arteries, angiographic catheters and wire guides, thermal dilution cardiac output devices, Swan-Ganz balloon catheters, nuclear cardiology, and lithotripsy equipment for noninvasive destruction of kidney stones.

Other Highlights

Pro-Dex (a public medical device company)
Member of California Association of Business Brokers (CABB)
Member, Men in Transition
Program Committee Chairman, American Association of Senior Executives (AASE)
Co-Founder Medical Imaging Centers of America (MICA) ($250MM Market Cap)
Co-Founder Insight Health Services ($300MM Market Cap)
Exec. VP Medstone, Int. ($150MM Market Cap)
CEO Center for Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Inc.
CEO Innovation Sports Medicine
Sr. VP, Mobile PET Services, Inc (public company) (first US mobile Positron Emission Tomography PET company)
Founder & President of American Foundation for Obesity Research
Mentor UCI Business School Annual Business Plan Competition
Mentor LARTA Business Plan Presentations
Director Lido Isle Yacht Club
Charter Member, Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club
Charter Member, The Navigators (nonprofit Newport Harbor High School fundraising organization)
Scholarship athlete in football & foreign exchange student

After completing postgraduate studies at the Menai Bridge Ocean Science Laboratories, University of Wales, UK and receiving a BA in Zoology/Chemistry at San Jose State University. In his early career he worked as a Marine Biologist. Married, he resides in Newport Beach where he enjoys flying and maintaining his competition aerobatic biplane, motorcycles, bicycling, scuba diving, tennis, golf, sailing, and his domestic and Int’l friendships.