Jerry Katzman, MD - Chairman, President & CEO

Jerry Katzman, MD, is the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Dr. Katzman has always been an entrepreneur, scientist, and pioneer in medical science. His focus has targeted various biotechnology companies, biopharma, and Wall Street. Upon completion of his medical training, Dr. Katzman joined a multi-specialty group practice in Brandon, FL where he founded and established the group’s department of ophthalmology. 

He then entered into a private practice where he designed and built one of the first state-licensed in office freestanding ambulatory surgical centers. The center also provided a multitude of services, including pharmacy, audiology, retinal dx, and treatment, as well as, general eye care, eye surgery, and optical. In 1993, Dr. Katzman founded EyeCare International, the nation’s first and largest non-insurance based discount vision network consisting of over 13,000 provider locations.

After 17 years with Amacore Group, Inc. (successor to EyeCare International) he retired as its Chief Medical Officer and continued his work on healthcare initiatives to promote affordable healthcare and an emergency electronic medical records program. 

Thereafter, in 2008, co-founded Core Corporate Consulting Group, Inc. a private company designed to purchase and rejuvenate ailing public companies which were headed into bankruptcy. 

In 2013, founded Disruptor Technologies Inc., a marketing and consulting company, and served as the CEO. Disruptor was developed to research, identify, evaluate, obtain, develop, promote, manufacture, and/or market groundbreaking technologies in health and science. 

Dr. Katzman is also the host of the podcast Healthy, Strong, and Active: Your Strategy for Life.

Dr. Katzman graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 1974 and thereafter earned his M.D. from the Universidad de Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico.
 

Erhan Gunday, Chief Technology Consultant

Sony Corporation
  Founded Sony Medical Electronic Division - internal venture company           
  Grew company to over $100 million in 6 years. Patent coordinator
  Developed imaging technologies, still the Gold Standard today

Circon ACMI (Olympus) 
  Developed First Miniaturized Digital 3-Chip Endoscopic Camera System
   Built 7 new Minimally Invasive Surgical technology platforms 
   Managed 30 man team on a $2M Budget

Optimize (Stryker)
   Built Medical Industries first 3-D eyewear for surgeons
   Developed first disposable CMOS imaging sensors 
   Developed High Resolution Mega Pixel Surgical Camera System
   Managed start-up operations of 12 man scientific team 
   Helped Raise $22M in Start Up Capital

Reuters Corporation
   Developed the First Financial Data system for Home Delivery
   Developed The Traders ‘Ticker Tape’ for Television

Former Co-Founder & VP of Engineering for Sony Medical Electronics Division. Erhan possesses over 27 years of medical device development expertise as a VP of RD&E for ACMI Circon (Olympus) and Optimize (Stryker). He is an experienced Start-up Executive and technical manager with a strong background in patent investigation, execution and consultation. Erhan has domestic and international experience in management, strategic planning, new product and market development, regulatory compliance and Intellectual Property development. Mr. Gunday started his career as a Senior Engineer for AutoNumerics, designing and developing Hardware and Software for the companies CNC products. He then moved on to IDR, Inc., a division of Reuters, designing the data discriminator portion of the electronic data terminal for capturing and displaying real-time financial news over TV Cable Channels – The Ticker Tape!

Mr. Gunday was recruited to Sony Electronics as the Director of Product Planning and Development, where he led two large projects managing electronic data delivery for their US Broadcast, Cable and Subscription Television division; generating revenues between $20 Million and $50 Million, respectively.

Mr. Gunday was then promoted to Vice President of Engineering for Sony Medical; a new, start-up division of the company.  As a founding member he successfully established the new divisions, provided product planning support for the Sony Manufacturing Groups and achieved sales of over $100 million in 6 years; while managing a team of 16 hardware, software and field service engineers along with managing the contributions of outside engineering consultants and contract manufacturing firms. 

Herbert L. Gould, MD, FACS - Director, Chief Science Advisor

Dr. Gould graduated from Bowdoin College and received an MD from Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.  He served his internship at the 1stMedical Division, Bellevue Hospital, and was a resident at the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, where, as a senior resident, he initiated the Contact Lens Clinic. He continued his medical studies at the Institute of Ophthalmology (London), Harvard Medical School, and the Downstate Medical Center, NY, where he received a corneal fellowship which included Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. 

He was a co-founder of the Contact Lens Society of Ophthalmologists and the New York Intraocular Lens Implant Society. He was a founding member of the American Intraocular Lens Implant Society, now ASCRS, was elected to the International Intraocular Lens Implant Club (IIIC), and later was a founding member of the International Society of Refractive Surgery. Dr. Gould was the founder and first president of the New York Keratorefractive Society. He has been a Teaching Fellow at the State University of New York, was Assistant Clinical Professor in Ophthalmology at State University of New York (Downstate), Associate Clinical Professor at New York Medical College, and served as an Instructor at the American Academy of Ophthalmology.   

Numerous presentations were made to professional associations in the US and throughout the world, including ophthalmological meetings in Athens, Prague, Stockholm, London, Vienna, Milan, Alexandria (Egypt), Shanghai, Korea, Algarve (Portugal), and Cannes, where he was also awarded a Bronze Medal from the Cannes Film Festival (Best Surgical Film: Corneal Transplant & Intra-Ocular Lens Implantation). He has published over 80 articles and chapters in professional books and journals. He has numerous professional memberships. 

He implanted the first intraocular lens in China with the IIIC. He trained in Russia and introduced radial keratotomy to the US and later helped develop the Lasik technique.  He had one of the first lasers in NYC after FDA approval, and later helped set up the laser center at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.   He served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force, where he served as a Flight Surgeon, for five years.

 

Alex Hsia - Mechanical Engineering

Alex has contributed to high-quality products that have benefited millions of patients. He is a highly experienced mechanical design engineer focused on medical devices. Alex specializes in minimally invasive surgical device design, development, and manufacturing. He has a proven track record in mechanical, electro-mechanical, pneumatic, and digital device design; automated data collection, Optical imaging device, and system integration for capital equipment.

He brings over twenty years' experience with tooling, die making, metal stamping, plastic molding, and equipment in electronic components manufacturing and is an expert at new product/process creation from concept to development and implementation with knowledge of ISO 13485, Design Control, and DFM.

Mr. Hsia holds 10 US and international patents.

Bell Industries P.M. Division, 1984-2000

Design Engineer to Engineering Manager

• Tooling-die making, precision metal stamping with large 250-ton punch presses
• Tooling and fixture design with hands-on metal fabrication experience
• Design and implementation of large automated production line with motor, pneumatic and

hydraulic components.

Medtronic/Kyphon Engineering Manager,  2000- 2011

Principal Design Engineer and Engineering Manager

• A successful, hands-on engineering team leader, Alex invented 95% of the custom-made automated equipment for Kyphon’s clean room and new product and processing development and implementation with custom designed equipment and managed all aspects of the model shop.

• Alex’s group successfully supported a small start-up company’s growth from scratch to a $4.2 billion company in 8 years. Production yield increased from 40% to 98%.  He designed every type of the Kyphoplasty balloons, the unique balloon molds, variety of the components and surgical tools attachment including catheter thermo-bonding, RF distal-bonding, cannula tip forming, reduce neck balloon mold, and non-contact laser balloon wall thickness measuring.

Sanovas, Inc.   2011 – 2016,  2017-2018

Staff Engineer/Engineer fellow in charge of medical device products

• Design Concepts for hand-controls for MicroCam
• Opto-Mechanical design for SteriView and MicroCam Cameras
• Injection mold features for 2nd generation scope handle
• Optical Stylet Top-level Conceptual Illustrations and models
• 3D models for SteriView (hand-controls, PCA Allowance, IP67)
• Catheter Profile and Concept refinement (taper and Bump geometry)
• Camera head improvements and manufacturability
• AWC top-level concept
• Vas Zeppelin Conceptual Illustrations, Models, and Molds
• MicroCam Proximal Connector
• Responsible for critical components design for micro cam products, such as Steerable flex Neck-Adapter, Mini (4mm) multi-connector and micro-LED ring from design, development to manufacturing automation equipment.

Procept-Biorobotics,  2016-2017

Sr. Mechanical design Engineer where he designed and implemented the 2nd generation of the robotic arm system, including the Arm, TRUS stepper and Device Holder.

Rani Therapeutics,  2019-2020

Mechanical Engineer, Automation

Education

Mr. Hsia holds a BSME, Chinese Science & Technology University, Shanghai, China

Vinay Mehindru, MD, MBA - Medical Advisor

Dr. Mehindru is an accomplished physician executive with over 25 years of healthcare experience that includes population health, physician performance management, and building physician alliances with clinical and financial integration. He is well known for taking a vision and transforming it into reality through sound strategy development and execution.

Despite his humble origins in North India, his accelerated track in education included starting college at the age of 14 and graduating from medical school at age 21 as one of the youngest graduates in the country. Moving to the United States he completed a Residency in Internal Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and a second Residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida. At the University of Texas, he received an MBA with honors.

Dr. Mehindru joined a private group of physicians and worked in a Level Two trauma center for 10 years. He has been an instructor for both Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) for 16 years. As Chief Medical Officer at AdventHealth Waterman, he spearheaded the establishment of a new hospitalist program and received recognition for excellence in seven metrics under Partnerships for Patients. With a focus on population health management, he managed 40,000 covered lives made up of: a self-funded employee health plan, a commercial health plan, and Medicare beneficiaries.

In his continued passion to improve outcomes for patients, Dr. Mehindru led the initiatives between the two major health systems in the Tampa Bay, Florida area, consisting of an exclusive health and wellness innovation partner for the first planned “Smart Gigabit Community,” a Home Health Care company, and a Joint Venture with the largest local radiology physicians group including 16 outpatient imaging centers.

 

Jerry Katzman, MD - Chairman, President & CEO

 

 

 

 

 

Herbert L. Gould, MD, FACS - Board of Directors

 

 

 

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Medical Advisors

 

Dr. Larry Perich D.O, Medical Advisor

Founder, Perich Eye Centers

​Team Leader in pharmacogenetics mapping in Retinal and systemic Disease

Dr. Perich is a special subject matter expert Consultant and Team Leader in pharmacogenetics mapping in Retinal and systemic Disease. As a scientist and investigator, Dr. Perich has assisted in the development of multi-focal intraocular lens implants and laser cosmetic surgery. He brings his expertise in pharmacogenetics mapping technologies to RetinalGenix Technologies.

Dr. Perich, a board-certified Ophthalmologist, has been in practice for the past 39 years in the Tampa Bay Area, developing one of the first laser refractive centers in SE and 3 ambulatory surgery centers in addition to 6 offices in four counties with 94 employees. He has performed over 75,000 cataract surgeries in addition to excelling in corneal transplants, glaucoma, and cosmetic surgical procedures. 

The Perich Eye Centers is also one of the largest providers of several Medicare advantage plans in the state of Florida for the past 37 years, providing eye care to over 120,000 patients annually.

Dr. Perich is the Program Director for an ophthalmology residency for HCA/USF Bayonet Point, presently training for the past 8 years.

He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1973, studying Biochemistry and cinema photography. Dr. Perich graduated from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1978, an Internship at Sun Coast Hospital in Largo, Florida, and completed an Ophthalmology residency at Metropolitan Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1983.

Larry Perich was born in Warren, Ohio to his parents, Pete and Anne, whose careers as a professional photography family, provided the education for Dr. Perich to excel in the photographic business. He used his skills as an accomplished photojournalist to become the editor /photographer for the yearbooks for high school, college, and medical school.

 

 

Dr. Marguerite B. McDonald, Medical Advisor

Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology NYU Langone Medical Center New York, New York

Adjunct Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology Tulane University Health Sciences Center New Orleans

Louisiana Ophthalmologic Consultants of Long Island 

Dr. MacDonald has been a legend in ophthalmology since she performed one of the first laser corrections of the human eye in 1994. She also performed the first wavefront-based laser surgeries in the U.S. Since then she has been globally recognized as an authority in laser refractive procedures and ocular surface disease.  She has given nearly 600 presentations worldwide and published chapters in over 80 textbooks.  She is a member of many prestigious ophthalmological societies. In 2012 she became the first person to receive the Visionary Woman Award from the group Ophthalmic Women Leaders. Dr. McDonald has also been nominated for woman of the year in ophthalmology by her alma mater, The Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.