Seno

Seno’s management team has extensive experience in the commercialization of medical device products. This team has been selected based upon their experience in development in imaging, manufacturing and regulatory hurdles in commercialization.

Ron Branstetter, President and COO, Seno Medical Instruments

Don Herzog, Director of Engineering, Seno Medical Instruments

Bill Ackerman, Principal Engineer, Seno Medical Instruments

This team is well supported by experts in such specific fields as electronic design, human subject clinical testing, acoustic transducer materials, ultrasound and laser systems, ergonomics and user interfaces, software structure and design.

Biographies

Ron Branstetter is the co-founder of Seno Medical Instruments and serves as President and COO. Previously, he was the president and COO of Colin Medical Instruments (CMI), a medical device company, where he held full responsibility for company performance. While leading CMI he designed and commercialized four families of patient monitoring products, set-up and managed all manufacturing functions, including establishing GMP procedures, hosted FDA inspections and created the engineering department. Prior to Colin Medical, Mr. Branstetter was the manager of the bioengineering section of Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX. SwRI is an independent, non-profit contract research and development organization with approximately 2,600 employees, where he led the creation of system concepts and designs, and developed more than a half dozen medical device products. Mr. Branstetter holds nine patents and is actively pursuing new patents for Seno Medical Instruments. Inc.

Don Herzog, Director of Engineering, has extensive project management skills and expertise in diagnostic ultrasound, medical information systems, image management, recording, image processing, image printers, laser systems and electro-optics. He recently led the development of the first real-time, 4D Doppler-based diagnostic system for vascular application. This technology has been acquired by a West Coast company, where it is being used to develop a method for the non-invasive measurement of intracranial pressure. This company is a multi-billion dollar medical device company. He was the individual at RCA responsible for inventing the optical recording and laser diodes as used in today’s CD’s and DVD’s, which was one of RCA’s most profitable patents.

Bill Ackerman, Principal Engineer, has more than 30 years experience in development, design and test of electronic systems, many of which have been first of a kind, very complex, high speed and challenging. Ackerman is highly skilled in his expertise which ranges from analog to very high-speed, complex, digital electronic designs. He recently designed digital and analog circuits as well as firmware for the first real-time, 4D Doppler-based system for vascular application. His involvement in the testing and evaluation of the system resulted in many successful system improvements.