MedWand Advisory Board

Thomas Leffler

Transitioning CEO, Entrepreneur, Investor

Shan Padda

CEO, Entrepreneur and Investor

George C. Carpenter IV

CEO, CGI Biomed Investments

Greg Bakan

CEO, Entrepreneur and Investor

Team Member Biographies

Todd Cornell

President & CEO

Todd is a strategic, growth-focused executive with over 30 years of experience in the medical device industry, including experience across startups, public companies, and high-growth ventures. A proven track record scaling operations, building global commercial infrastructure, and navigating regulatory pathways. Actively participated in building two companies that successfully listed for Initial Public Offering on the NASDAQ and HKEX. Todd is a member of the MedWand Board of Directors.

Toby Wilson

Chief Technology Officer

Toby brings over 34 years of executive leadership managing and directing technical operations in Manufacturing, Engineering and Information Technology. He is experienced in the engineering design and manufacture of consumer electronics systems and technology platforms, as well as software application and web development. He has a successful track record of building and leading product development teams, and a sustained track record of delivering high-quality solutions on-time and on-budget. He has served as Chief Technology Officer for both public and private companies and served as an avionics technology specialist in the US Army with the 82nd Airborne.

Mike Welch

Global VP of Sales and Marketing

Mike has over 30 years of experience bringing first-of-kind medical device technologies to market. He has partnered with clinicians in over 40 countries to gather early clinical experience with novel devices. Mike went on to build and manage networks of direct sales forces and distributors to commercialize those devices once regulatory approval was obtained. Mike has served this role across numerous organizations ranging from small, early stage start-ups to large multinationals. His prior work experiences include EBR, Relievant, Medtronic/Ardian, Emphasys Medical and Abbott/Perclose. Mike holds a B.S. in Natural Resources from Colorado State University and a M.Div. from Bethel University.

Danforth F. Lincoln

General Counsel

Dan is a graduate of Northwestern University and Boston University School of Law. He is an A-V rated attorney and has counseled small and mid-sized businesses regarding business practices and transactions ranging from contracts, real estate transactions, business purchase, and sale to employment matters. He is a business litigator and a member of MedWand’s Board of Directors.

Michael Kurliand

VP of Clinical Quality and Integration

Mike is a veteran healthcare professional who started his career as an oncology and emergency psych nurse in Philadelphia. He made the leap to health information technology and has worked at prestigious children’s and older adult missioned organizations. Mike is dedicated to advancing healthcare and is keenly aware that there is no one single approach in building successful relationships and change management.

Stacey Uston

Controller

Stacey is a dynamic senior accounting professional with over 20 years of progressive experience, in public, private and start-up companies of all sizes. She has a broad range of industry experience within medical insurance software for service, manufacturing, wholesale distribution, big-box retail, e-commerce, property management, and construction services & installation.

Her professional expertise includes; preparing timely and accurate financial statements and monthly reporting packages for c-suite management team with strategic financial analysis and guidance to the senior leadership team. Managing cash flow and working capital and overseeing the budget and forecast process. Develop and implement financial controls and procedures to ensure the integrity of financial reporting and identify opportunities for process improvements and cost savings. Manage relationships with external tax professionals and financial institutions.

She holds a degree in Accounting from Eastern Washington University.

Jeff Woodruff

Director of Manufacturing

Jeff’s career began as a manufacturing engineer for a contract manufacturer to learn the fundamentals of electronics manufacturing, process development, and quality systems right after college. He then transitioned to work for a customer of the CM and worked on the OEM side doing product engineering, new product introductions, and design work along with worldwide engineering support of high-volume manufacturing of electronics facilities. He continued with roles that comprised design, manufacturing, test, systems/process development, and supplier development throughout my career both as an engineer and a hands-on manager of staff in various technologies from raid servers to high end digital cinema cameras and everything in between. His last 3 roles have been working for startups and commercializing products.

Scott Coleman

Director of Engineering

Scott has over 35 years’ experience in the design and test of electronic systems. After initially working on manufacturing test development for a few years, Scott moved into the design of electronic systems in consumer electronics, including the world’s first PCMCIA memory and I/O cards, and the TV broadcast industry, including the first HD video recorder used by the NHL for goal review. Scott founded and operated his own design consulting company for 20 years where he developed his experience in the medical and military industries. Scott has authored or co-authored 3 patents and holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering.

Michael Fox

Director of IT / Software Engineering

Mike brings over 30 years of experience in leading innovative software development solutions and driving technical excellence. His experience ranges from creating consumer front-end and company back-office applications, to cloud architectures that communicate across multiple API platforms. He has served as IT Director, and President of multiple startup companies.

Advisory Board Biographies

Thomas Leffler

Transitioning CEO, Entrepreneur, Investor

Thomas Leffler is an accomplished leader with a proven record of success in both corporate and entrepreneurial settings, spanning a diverse range of industries and organizations of all sizes. He is recognized for his expertise in scaling and growing companies, executing transformative turnarounds, and achieving successful exits. Thomas currently serves as a Senior Consultant at MAP (Management Action Programs), a premier consulting firm that empowers leaders and organizations to achieve breakthrough performance through proven systems, coaching, training, and accountability. He has held numerous board positions and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Project Insight, as well as the Advisory Boards of MedWand Solutions and The Jonathan Foundation. He holds an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University and BA degrees in Business and Marketing from Carthage College.

Shan Padda

CEO, Entrepreneur and Investor

Shan is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, scaled and sold three healthcare companies prior to Harvard MedTech. Two of them were medical device companies and the third a technology enabled services company. One of his medical device companies did a successful IPO on Nasdaq prior to eventually being sold to a strategic acquirer Shan was named to the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame and was chosen as the KPMG High Tech Entrepreneur of the year for Illinois in 1998. He is a former member of the World Economic Forum and a current member of YPO. Shan earned a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University with a major in Biology.

George C. Carpenter IV

CEO, CGI Biomed Investments

Founder/CEO of multiple biomed startups with aggregate exit value over $1 billion, George is a results-oriented biomedical executive with a passion for leading high growth and turnaround companies. He has specialized in building companies with unique clinical data assets and machine learning/clinical algorithms into market leaders. Currently a limited partner in funds that invest in small molecules+diagnostics using AI. George serves on a variety of biomedical advisory and fiduciary boards, and is a frequent speaker and writer on healthcare technology and financing issues. He earned his MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and a BA with Distinction in Policy & International Law from Dartmouth College.

Greg Bakan

CEO, Entrepeneur and Investor

Greg has nearly 35 years of experience in the medical device industry. Following an undergraduate degree in biology and an MBA, he spent 10 years working for large strategics such as Eli Lilly & Company, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. He then pivoted his career to medical device start-ups where he held senior management positions in marketing, sales, and ultimately CEO. The start-ups Greg worked for (which includes Ardian, Emphasys Medical, Nevro and Fox Hollow) have returned more than $2.5 billion to their investors. Most recently Greg worked for Fogarty Innovation, a non-profit, medtech incubator where he served as coach and mentor for early stage companies and young entrepreneurs. Though now retired, Greg continues to engage in consulting, coaching and advisory roles, and occasionally lectures and mentors at Stanford University's Mussallem Center for Biodesign.

The Story of MedWand™

In late 2013, having just finished working with Google on telemedicine projects, Dr. Samir Qamar received a call from his sister, complaining of a cough. Wanting to listen to her lungs, he asked her to place the smartphone's mic against her chest -- to his surprise, he heard lung and heart sounds. Always receiving calls from patients, family, and friends for medical advice and not being able to examine them, Samir saw an opportunity to supercharge telemedicine by housing multiple diagnostics into a singular handheld device that could be used to examine patients remotely…..and the idea for MedWand was born.

Dr. Qamar met Bob Rose, the founder and CEO of Cypher Scientific, and the MedWand design was first conceived. Cypher Scientific was a contract engineering company that specialized in medical equipment, video, and specialty computing products, making the design initiative for MedWand a perfect fit. MedWand Solutions was founded in 2014. Together, they raised the initial funding and began building the company. MedWand was designed to replicate as many in-office tools for gathering vital signs as possible within a single device and to place them under the control of the examining clinician, regardless of the clinician's or patient's physical location. By leveraging decades of experience and insights in design, manufacturing, and operations across healthcare, aerospace, defense, communications, and consumer electronics, the team transformed a basic idea in 2014 into an FDA-cleared, disruptive, industry-leading product dedicated to fulfilling the potential of Telemedicine.

Cypher Scientific was merged into MedWand in 2021 to enable the engineering team to continue to focus all their energy on MedWand and its supporting ecosystem. MedWand received FDA 510(k) clearance on July 22, 2022, and has obtained multiple regulatory clearances in additional global markets since then.