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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Texas based CEO’ operating in the Health Diagnostics space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sarah Jones Simmer
CEO of Found
CEO @ Found. Sarah has spoken at SXSW, the Global Partnership for Education, and UN special sessions on topics ranging from girls’ and women’s rights to the future of ethical business. She has a Masters’ in Public Policy from Northwestern University. She used to run marathons and has completed an Ironman, but now spends her time outside of work raising two amazing young daughters.
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About Found: Found is dedicated to improving people’s overall wellbeing by making evidence-based weight loss accessible and affordable.
Dr Toby Hamilton
Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer of Emerus Hospital Partners
Dr. Hamilton is a founding partner, member of the board of directors and Chief Executive Officer of Emerus Holdings Inc. A Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and Board-Certified in emergency medicine, Dr. Hamilton has previously served as a Regional Medical Director of Cypress Creek Emergency Care Center and was a practicing physician at Denton Regional Medical Center in Denton, Texas. Dr. Hamilton graduated Magna Cum Laude with an undergraduate degree in Biology at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. He earned his medical degree from Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine in El Paso and Lubbock and completed his residency at Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine in El Paso.
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About Emerus Hospital Partners: Emerus Hospital is an emergency care facility providing prompt diagnosis, treatments and advanced emergency care services for patients.
Thomas Umbel
Chief Executive Officer of Seno Medical Instruments
Thomas Umbel is Chief Executive Officer of Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. Tom Umbel brings more than 30 years of medical device and diagnostics leadership experience to Seno Medical. He has lead several start-up companies, including one through a successful acquisition. He has also managed large organizations through significant growth leading both the strategic development and M&A efforts in his previous roles. Tom was most recently the VP of Business Development for Bioventus, a privately held ortho-biologics company in Durham, NC. Tom has led the Business Development efforts at both Bioventus and Hologic, the largest dedicated Women’s Health company in the U.S. Tom’s role in managing mergers and acquisitions helped to grow Hologic from a small single-product company with $100 million in revenue to a large diversified company with more than $2.5 billion in sales in his 15 years with the company. Prior to Hologic, Tom was the President of Direct Radiography Corp. (DRC). He led the development and commercialization of the digital x-ray detector technology, which he ultimately sold to Hologic in 1999. This company’s technology became the core to Hologic’s market leading digital mammography system and was the engine to Hologic’s significant growth. Prior to DRC, Tom worked at Sterling Diagnostic Imaging for 3 years and DuPont for 20 years. At those two companies, Tom held senior management positions in operations, engineering, sales and marketing. Tom has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Grove City College.
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About Seno Medical Instruments: Seno Medical is commercialization efforts in opto-acoustic imaging of breast cancer.
Robert N. Helms
CEO of Victory Healthcare
Bob oversees and manages the overall operations of Victory Healthcare. Bob began his career as a Medicare Auditor and has been working in healthcare for more than 40 years. Over that time, he has served as CEO of several large regional healthcare providers in both short term acute care and long term acute care in Florida, Texas and Illinois. In 1993, he focused his attention on long term acute care (LTAC) as CEO for Transitional Hospitals Corporation’s (THC) Tampa, Florida facility. In 1996, Bob assumed the position of Divisional Vice President where he was responsible for management oversight of eight long-term acute care facilities in seven states as well as the development and opening of five new LTAC facilities in his region. In 1997, he transitioned to President and Chief Operating Officer of Spectrum Comprehensive Care Corporation (SCCI), the long term acute care hospital company, in Dallas, Texas. While at SCCI, he was responsible for the startup and operations of 10 facilities in six states. In 1999, Bob founded Triumph HealthCare, which became recognized throughout the LTAC industry as the leader in the continuum of intensive care services. In October 2004 Triumph was sold to a venture capital group who used Triumph as a vehicle to acquire other LTAC companies as an industry consolidator. Triumph HealthCare has since merged with RehabCare, a publicly traded healthcare company. Bob has served on the Board of Directors of the Acute Long Term Hospital Association and the University of Houston Healthcare Administration Program. He holds a B.A. in Accounting from the University of West Florida. He is presently the primary owner and CEO of Victory Healthcare and is also currently Chairman and CEO of Innova Healthcare as well as being Innova’s largest shareholder.
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About Victory Healthcare: Victory Healthcare is a growing network of specialized surgical hospitals dedicated to providing leading-edge technology.
Michael E. Steadman
Chief Executive Officer of URGO Medical North America
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About URGO Medical North America: URGO Medical North America provides medical devices and products for hospitals, wound care centers, nursing homes, and home health agencies.
Hubert Zajicek
Co-Founder, Partner & Chief Executive Officer of Health Wildcatters
Hubert Zajicek is CEO & Co-founder of Health Wildcatters, a healthcare seed fund and accelerator in Dallas, TX. Health Wildcatters provides mentorship, capital and guidance to up to 12 healthcare related startups during an intensive 12 week program which culminates in a pitch day annually. Health Wildcatters three funds are invested in over 30 healthcare startup companies. Dr. Zajicek has extensive experience with startups and is an active speaker, panelist and thought leader on healthcare innovation, startups, entrepreneurship & financing. He serves as advisor, mentor and board member on various organizations and startup companies. He was managing director – medical technology at NTEC (North Texas Enterprise Center), where he ran what eventually became the Southwest’s largest medtech investment conference, showcasing startups that attracted in excess of $300M. Prior, he was on faculty at UT Southwestern, as an NIH funded principal investigator, in the Departments of Internal medicine and Cell Biology. He is president and founder of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs – DFW chapter, co-founder & partner of Lone Star Angels and is on the Board of the Southwest Venture Forum. He has an MD from the University of Vienna and an MBA from SMU.
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About Health Hacking Crisis Network, Health Wildcatters: Health Wildcatters is a mentor-driven seed accelerator focused on improving healthcare by supporting entrepreneurs and healthcare startups.
Darren Davis
Founder, President & CEO of ApoCell
Darren Davis is a world recognized cancer researcher who has published 40 scientific articles and edited the book Antiangiogenic Cancer Therapy. Dr. Davis founded ApoCell in 2004 to commercialize biomarker technologies that monitors the effectiveness of cancer drugs by measuring biomarker expression patterns in tumor biopsy specimens. The proprietary method was developed to discover and validate methods to assess the effects of cancer drugs directed at specific molecular targets including antiangiogenic therapies. Dr. Davis received his doctorate from the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Biomedical Sciences and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
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About ApoCell: ApoCell is a privately held molecular biomarker development, services, and diagnostics company headquartered in Houston.
Yael Katz
CEO of BrainCheck
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About BrainCheck: BrainCheck is a mobile interactive test for cognitive health, allowing users to track their brain health to share results with clinicians.
Debra Weidanz
Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Scientist of Resonant Sensors Inc.
Debra Weidanz is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Abexxa Biologics.
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About Abexxa Biologics, Resonant Sensors Inc.: The mission of Resonant Sensors Incorporated (RSI) is to become a global leader for rapid biosensor screening systems for the.
Derek Maetzold
President, CEO & Founder of Castle Biosciences
Derek J. Maetzold founded Castle Biosciences in September 2007 and has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since inception. Previously, Mr. Maetzold held leadership roles at Encysive Pharmaceuticals, Schering-Plough Corporation (now Merck), Integrated Communications, Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now a division of Novartis). Mr. Maetzold currently serves as a director of the Ocular Melanoma Foundation. He has contributed to the discovery, development and commercialization of five diagnostic and prognostic tests in cancers, has co-authored multiple scientific publications and is a co-inventor of a number of technologies at Castle Biosciences and Encysive Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Maetzold holds a B.S. degree in Biology from George Mason University and completed additional coursework at the University of Calgary Health Sciences Center and the MBA program at the University of California, Riverside.
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About Castle Biosciences: Castle Biosciences is a biotech company that develops and validates diagnostic tests and technologies for the treatment of cancer.
David Michel
President & CEO of Catapult Health
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About Catapult Health: Catapult Health provides worksite preventive checkup services such as diagnostic blood works and tailored personal health reports.
Jonathan Cohen
President, CEO & Founder of 20/20 Gene Systems
Jonathan Cohen is the President, CEO & Founder at 20/20 GeneSystems, Inc.
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About 20/20 Gene Systems: 20/20 GeneSystems (‘20/20’) was founded in May of 2000 to develop and promote an innovative proteomics product line that provides drug
Edward Allegra
Co-Founder & CEO of BioLum Sciences
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About BioLum Sciences: Innovating Chronic Disease Management
