Mike is a sophisticated, modern-day executive with a long list of accomplishments. He has been a serial entrepreneur for the last 24 years actively involved with both private and public companies, spending much of his time Starting, Growing, and Raising Capital (over $200 Million) for early stage companies.
Mike has been in the high tech medical business for 34 years and at Johnson & Johnson was part of the team that developed the MRI system. Mike’s concept of comprehensive outpatient 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 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.
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, 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 friendships scattered worldwide.
Current
CEO cardiology drug eluting stent company
Board Member & Audit Committee of Pro-Dex
Member of California Assoc of Business Brokers
Member of Men in Transition
Prior
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 large bariatric minimally invasive laparoscopic surgical practice
CEO Innovation Sports Medicine
Sr. VP first US mobile Positron Emission Tomography (PET) company (took public)
Sr. VP Mobile PET Services, Inc (took public)
Program Chairman of the American Assoc. of Senior Executives
Founder & Pres 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 fundraising organization)