Holly McGarraugh, President and CEO
Holly has over 20 years of experience in medical devices. Most recently, she was the Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for in-vivo products at Abbott Diabetes Care and led the commercialization efforts, including clinical acceptance and reimbursement, of a new product category called continuous glucose monitoring. Prior to this, she was a vice president at the successful start-up, TheraSense (now Abbott Diabetes Care). She was an early member of Lifescan Inc. (a division of Johnson & Johnson) where she held multiple roles including the Director of Customer Service and Marketing, and Vice President of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs. She holds an M.Ed. in medical education from Vanderbilt University and a BS in Dietetics from David Lipscomb University.
Bhairavi Parikh, PhD, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
Bhairavi has deep domain expertise in the development of medical biosensors with numerous published articles and several issued patents. She has over 10 years of experience in the field of medical devices and diagnostics. She designed and developed a sensor for the measurement of therapeutic inhaled nitric oxide and led the instrumentation team for medical device clinical studies while at the University of Massachusetts Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Bhairavi was also involved in new product development at Natus Medical. Bhairavi has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from a joint program with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and University of Massachusetts Medical Center. She also earned an MS in Biological Engineering from the University of Connecticut and a BS in Biochemistry from the University of New Hampshire.
Steve Bubrick, Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Steve has more than 20 years of operational and commercial experience in the medical device industry, mainly in diabetes management. Prior to joining Apieron, Steve was the Vice President of Customer Care & Reimbursement for Bedford, Massachusetts-based Insulet Corp., where he contributed to the company's 170% revenue growth in 2008. Before joining Insulet, Steve was Director, Worldwide Marketing for in-vivo products at Abbott Diabetes Care, which was formed by Abbott's acquisition of TheraSense, at which he was a commercial and operational director. Prior to TheraSense, Steve was with LifeScan Inc., now a division of Johnson & Johnson. Steve earned his BA at the University of California, Berkeley.
Bryan Miller, Vice President of Finance
Bryan, most recently served as a Principal at Berkshire Financial Management LLC where he handled financial and management consulting and equity management of properties in California, Nevada and Arizona. Prior to that, Bryan was the Senior Director of Finance at eV3, the medical device company, where we was responsible for financial planning, forecasting and analysis as well as the internal reporting and SOX compliance teams at its FoxHollow Technologies, Inc. division. Bryan has an extensive background in financial leadership roles, having held additional senior positions with Trimble Navigation, Shopping the Globe, Inc. and Sega of America. He earned his MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and his BS at University of California, Los Angeles.
Nina Peled, Global Head and Vice President of Regulatory & Clinical Affairs
Nina has held executive management positions in the areas of Regulatory and Clinical Affairs, as well as Quality Assurance, in a number of medical device companies including Hansen Medical, Lumenis, Amira Medical and Cygnus. Previously, Nina held various leading management positions in Regulatory and Clinical Affairs, Research and Development and Business Development at i-STAT Corporation and for 16 years at Boehringer Mannheim Corporation (Roche Diagnostics). Earlier in her career, she served as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Rice University in Houston. Nina holds a BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an Executive MBA from the University of Houston.
Brad Steadman, Vice President of Operations
Brad has over 25 years of experience in engineering, quality and operations management. His experience in the medical device industry ranges from wound care, respiratory management and dialysis, to neuro and cardiovascular implants. Brad has worked in a variety of companies, from start-up to Fortune 100, including Converge Medical, Somnus Medical, Wilshire Medical Products, Pfizer and Boston Scientific. He holds a BS degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Arizona and has completed advanced studies in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.