Management Team

H. Clark Adams, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman
Mr. Adams has over 30 years in sales, marketing and managing of pharmaceutical and innovative medical device companies. He has a B.S. in Business Administration from Murray State University and received an MBA from Southeastern Nova University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He was awarded the "Distinguished Alumni Award" from the College of Business and Communications, Murray State University in 2002.

Mr. Adams has worked with several of the most innovative medical device companies in the industry, Cardiac Pacemakers Inc (Guidant), St. Jude Medical, and IVAC (Alaris Medical). Mr. Adams cofounded two medical device companies, Deltec Systems and Ablation Technologies, and he has raised over $30 million in seed and venture funding.

Charles Kerber, M.D., Founder & President, Board Member
Professor, Radiology and Neurosurgery, UCSD
Dr. Kerber received a B.S. in chemistry with honors from the University of Pittsburgh, then graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Following his surgical internship, Dr. Kerber joined the Marines and became flight surgeon for Squadron 533.

After active duty, Dr. Kerber began basic research to develop a new medical specialty, Interventional Neuroradiology. He is the author of more than 120 scientific articles and 10 medical textbook chapters. Dr. Kerber combines this research with teaching young doctors to perform brain therapy procedures at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.

In 2006, The American Society of Neuroradiology presented Dr. Kerber with the Gold Medal Award for his contribution to the growth and respectability of the ASNR, primarily through his contributions to the evolution and advancement of Interventional Neuroradiology.

Dr. Kerber has founded two prior device companies, Biodyne Inc (sold to Cook Inc) and ProHold Medical Technologies (sold to Provasis Inc).
Franklin D. Brown, Board Member
Franklin D. Brown is Chairman of Endologix, Inc. Mr. Brown has more than 30 years of multinational management experience and has served on the board of several domestic and international companies. In 1991, he was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year Award and in 2001 was awarded Director of the Year for his contribution in Corporate Governance.

Jeffery Sunshine, M.D., Ph.D., Board Member
Interventional Neuroradiologist , Vice Chairman, Department of Radiology, Associate Professor, Departments of Radiology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.

Robert Elms, BSCE, Director of Operations
Mr. Elms, B.S., Chemical Engineering, MBA, has 26 years of experience in manufacturing, packaging and materials management, and facilities and engineering management including proficiency in scale-up, validation and financial/budgetary aspects of operations.

Peter Friedman, Ph.D., Director of Product Formulation & Master Chemist
Dr. Friedman received his B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Tel Aviv in Israel, followed by completing his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, in 1996.