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The team that brings regeneration technology into practice

MEET THE TEAM

Fertram

G. Fertram Sigurjonsson

Founder & CEO

  • Former Head of Wound Management at Össur, the world’s leading noninvasive orthopedics firm
  • Former VP of Business Development at biotech company Keratec (now Keraplast)
  • Experience from executive positions and board memberships in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, New Zealand and the United States
  • 2021 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Entrepreneur of the Year in Iceland 2015.
  • Awards from the President of Iceland on innovation and entrepreneurship

Mike Cadigan

Chief Financial Officer

  • Former Managing Partner of Cadigan Capital
  • Former Partner, SMS Display Group
  • Former Asset Manager, Colony Capital
  • Former Staff Accountant, Deloitte & Touche
  • M.B.A. and B.A. from the University of California – Irvine

Steve DiBiasio

Chief Sales Officer

  • Proven track record of bringing disruptive technologies into the wound-care markets
  • Former VP of Sales at SteadMed Medical, now Urgo Medical North America
  • Former sales-management roles at industry giant Smith & Nephew for more than 15 years
  • On the launch team for the first biologic skin substitute (Dermagraft) in the U.S. market
  • B.A. from New Hampshire College

Christopher Harte

Chief Operating Officer

  • Global business development, operations and finance
  • 30 years of business experience
  • Seven years as a business expatriate in Eastern Europe, Western Europe and India
  • MBA from the University of South Carolina
  • Guest professor at Penn State, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and George Mason University.
Gosk

Gudmundur Oskarsson

Executive Vice President
Medical Affairs, Education & Products

  • Former Director, Sales & Marketing, VÍS Insurance Ltd.
  • Former Chief Commercial Officer, Icelandair
  • Former Head of Marketing and Sales, Air Iceland
  • Co-Founder, MyTweetAlerts
  • B.A. in International Communications & Business Economics from Penn State University
  • Diploma, International Communication, University of Leipzig
Dan-Mooradian

Daniel L. Mooradian, Ph.D.

Chief Technology Advisor

  • 30+ years of experience in Global Medical Device R&D/Product Development
  • Former VP R&D at Synovis Life Technologies (Baxter International)
  • Former Director of Preclinical Sciences - Interventional Cardiology, Boston Scientific
  • Former Director of R&D - Cardiac Rhythm, Boston Scientific
  • PhD. Experimental Pathology (Wayne State University)/BS. Biological Sciences (University of Michigan -Dearborn)

Gunnar Johannsson, MD

Senior Vice President & Medical Director

  • Former Kerecis SVP, Research & Development
  • Co-founder of sleep-correction company Somnify
  • Background in clinical product development
  • Founding partner of inntaka.is, an interactive e-learning platform for medical students
  • Research Director for multiple clinical research projects in the U.S., including large-scale, multi-center trials
  • M.D. from the University of Iceland School of Medicine

Joe Smith

Executive Vice President Research & Product Life Cycle Management

  • 20+ years of experience in medical device development and commercialization
  • Former EVP Customer Transformation and EVP of Enterprise and Corporate Contracting at Kerecis
  • Former Technology Innovation Leader and Director of Product Management at Healogics
  • Former Ecomagination leader for GE Healthcare
  • BS Mechanical Engineering, BYU. MBA Thunderbird International School of Business

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