BrainScope is a medical neurotechnology company that is improving brain health by providing objective, diagnostic insights that enable better patient care. BrainScope is leading the way in the rapid and objective assessment of brain-related conditions, starting with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), utilizing multiple integrated assessment capabilities, artificial intelligence (AI), and digitization. The Company’s technology supports the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Choosing Wisely® campaign to avoid CT scans of the head in Emergency Department patients with minor head injury. BrainScope’s innovative neurotechnology platform uses EEG-based, AI-derived algorithms empowering physicians to quickly make accurate head injury assessments, addressing the full spectrum of traumatic brain injuries from structural (brain bleed) to functional (concussion) injuries, providing for the first time a full picture of the injury, and doing so in less time and without radiation.
Chief Medical Officer
Diku Mandavia MD is an experienced Chief Medical Officer with expertise in commercializing disruptive healthcare technologies. Dr. Mandavia, a recognized expert in emergency medicine, brings 28 years of emergency medicine experience and 15 years of medical device experience.
Previously, Dr. Mandavia served as the global Chief Medical Officer of FUJIFILM Sonosite Inc. since 2009 and FUJIFILM Medical USA since 2015. He joined Sonosite as a medical advisor in 2007 and played a pivotal role in establishing point-of-care ultrasound as the new standard of care in the ED and ICU. At Sonosite, he was instrumental in taking a disruptive technology in miniaturized ultrasound and developing new care pathways at the point of care. Dr. Mandavia led market development efforts focused on the core markets of emergency medicine, critical care and anesthesia that ultimately led to better patient outcomes at a lower cost. He also previously served as Chief Medical Officer for Ceribell developing novel point of care EEG for the ED and ICU.
As attending staff physician at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center Dr. Mandavia is a recognized educator and lecturer with >100 publications and >200 speaking engagements. He received his medical degree from Memorial University in Canada, residency at LAC+USC Medical Center and is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program. He is also a diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Aditya Dalvi has 20 years architecting and developing Class I, II and III medical devices for small and large companies. Prior to joining BrainScope, Mr. Dalvi held senior leadership roles at Exactech and Medtronic (neurosurgical devices). Mr. Dalvi began his career at Terumo BCT and has played a pivotal role in the global launch of numerous medical device products over the past two decades. He has successfully taken products from concept to market and managed all aspects of the product life cycle.
Mr. Dalvi holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a B.E. in Telecommunications Engineering from Mumbai University, India.
Clayton Collier, Ph.D. leads the company’s customer operations and customer support functions for North America. In this role, he is responsible for driving a culture of customer success and continuous improvement ensuring excellence across all post-sales services including implementation, training, and ongoing customer service and support. Dr. Collier has spent his 28-year career as a driven leader who builds, leads, and manages customer-facing support teams to drive customer success and excellence. Before joining BrainScope in 2017, Dr. Collier held several senior management positions all focused on building and managing customer facing support and services organizations. Half of Dr. Collier’s 28-year career was spent at Digene Corporation where he built a full-service customer operations organization responsible for supporting the commercialization of Digene’s HPV DNA test which became a standard of care in cervical cancer screening. Dr. Collier continued after the acquisition of Digene by Qiagen in a Global Training leadership position. After Digene/Qiagen, Dr. Collier spent time developing customer support organizations with several mid to small startup organizations in both life sciences and medical diagnostics.
Dr. Collier received a Ph.D. and master’s in microbiology from Miami University of Ohio and a BS in Biology from Clarion University of PA.
Leslie S. Prichep, Ph.D. is the Chief Scientific Officer of BrainScope, where she directs the Company’s scientific research and algorithm development efforts using machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify and scientifically validate biomarkers of traumatic brain injury and concussion. She is also responsible for the scientific integrity of the product.
Dr. Prichep came to BrainScope from a significant academic tenure as a neuroscientist at NYU School of Medicine where she was the Director of the Brain Research Laboratories (BRL) and Professor of Psychiatry. The BrainScope platform has at its core, the technology she co-developed while at BRL and which were licensed from NYU.
Dr. Prichep is highly respected and known as a pioneering innovator in quantitative electrophysiology and clinically applied translational research in a number of brain-related disease states including traumatic brain injury, dementia, addiction, depression, and schizophrenia. Dr. Prichep has over 150 peer-reviewed publications, with another 55 book chapters, books, published proceedings, and monographs, holds a number of patents, and is considered one of the preeminent research scientists in the field of computerized electrophysiological. In recognition of her contribution to neurotechnology development, Dr. Prichep was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2019.
Dr. Prichep has been working with BrainScope since its inception in 2006.
Laurie Silver is the Chief Executive Office of BrainScope, a medical neurotechnology company that is improving brain health by providing objective, diagnostic insights that enable better patient care. Laurie has been with BrainScope since its inception, having previously served as both Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. With 30 years’ experience in strategy, operations, M&A, corporate development, finance and accounting, Laurie has been instrumental in helping shepherd the company through both its development and commercialization stages. Prior to BrainScope, Laurie served as Director of Services Mergers and Acquisitions at Symantec, where she led the integration of the customer service, consulting and education organizations upon the $13 billion merger of Symantec and Veritas. Laurie has also served as VP of Finance and Administration of a subsidiary of Sallie Mae; Director of Corporate Development and M&A at a GTCR-backed technology firm; Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis across all business units of ABC/Disney; and a Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young LLP in New York. Laurie graduated from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and earned a CPA license from the State of New York.
Dr. Stauffer is a Johns Hopkins trained Anesthesiologist and was a part-time clinical instructor/adjunct assistant professor for 16 years in the Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine. Joe also served eight years as a Medical Officer in the US Navy. He joined the FDA in 2000 as a Medical Review Officer, subsequently being recruited by Abbott Laboratories as Global Medical Director. He received his MBA from a joint program (TRIUM) between New York University (NYU), Stern School of Business, London School of Economics (LSE) and HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales) School of Management in Paris.
Serving over 22 years at both public and private companies, he built teams of physicians, scientists, statisticians, medical science liaisons, regulators, and safety experts in support of clinical development projects for both drugs and medical devices. He led global clinical development, clinical operations, pharmacovigilance, biometrics, regulatory and medical affairs teams at Alpharma and Ikaria; both of which were acquired in $1.6B cash deals in 2009 and 2014, respectively. He has been intimately involved with raising over $650M of new equity and/or deal related financing between 2010-2024 at five different companies.
Chris Randby leads BrainScope’s commercialization efforts and drives go-to-market strategies across Emergency Departments, Outpatient Clinics, and Sports. Chris joined BrainScope from MedTech startup Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, where he was FY22 Sales Representative of the Year and voted Employee of the Year by his colleagues. Before Perimeter, Chris worked in Product Management with increasing seniority at Merit Medical (Breast Oncology) and MicroVention Terumo (Neuroendovascular).
A native of Pennsylvania, Chris graduated summa cum laude from Penn State University; he worked for the Penn State Football Team during his tenure and was on staff during Coach Joe Paterno’s final season.
Chris lives in California with his wife, Catalina, and three children Audrey [9], Braxton [7], and Eloise [3]. Chris is a voracious reader, Lego builder, and avid motorcycle rider.
Susan is an innovative and successful healthcare executive with over 30 years of diagnostics, products, and services experience. She joined BrainScope in June of 2019.
Most recently, Susan was Chief Executive Officer of private equity-backed Prelude Fertility, a comprehensive fertility services company. In just two years, Susan drove the commercial strategy, built the team, and created the largest and fastest-growing fertility services company in the country with over 28 locations in 14 states. She also completed a first of its kind deal with NYU Langone. Prelude completed a merger with Inception Fertility in April of 2019.
Prior to joining Prelude, Susan spent more than six years as President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Heart Diagnostics, a diagnostics services start-up backed Bain Capital Ventures. During her tenure at Boston Heart, the company grew organically from $4M to just under $95M in 5 years, went from 30 to 550 employees, and tested over one million patients. Susan led the successful exit of Boston Heart in January 2015, in a deal valued at just under $200M.
Prior to Boston Heart, Susan was Chief Executive Officer at Ipsogen Inc, a molecular diagnostics company with products focused on blood and breast cancers. In less than 3 years, she built the US into the largest market within Ipsogen and along with the Founder CEO co-led the M&A that resulted in the sale of the company to Qiagen. Susan spent the earlier part of her career at Quest Diagnostics where she held various executive positions including head of marketing, corporate identity, payer contracting, and supply chain and materials management. She also spent time at Abbott Diagnostics and Oxford Health Plans (now part of United Healthcare).
Susan’s deep experience in a variety of diagnostics, provider services, and payer contracting companies have given her a unique perspective on the market. She has successfully anticipated shifting healthcare trends throughout her career and has used this to innovate and drive growth under a variety of conditions.
Susan received an MBA from Columbia University and is an EY “Entrepreneur of the Year.” (2014). She serves on the board of directors of BreastCancer.Org and is a strategic advisor to the Founders Affiliate Board of Directors of the American Heart Association.
Miles Gilburne has been active for more than 25 years as a venture capitalist, corporate strategist, and technology lawyer. He is currently a managing member of ZG Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on media, information technology, and health sciences.
Prior to forming ZG Ventures in 2000, Gilburne served for five years as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for America Online, where he was responsible for strategic planning, corporate acquisitions, joint ventures, and alliances. He was elected to the board of directors of AOL in 1999 and, after the merger of AOL with Time Warner, continued to serve on the board of the combined company until stepping down in May 2006.
Gilburne has been an early investor in or served on the board of a wide variety of public and private companies, including media companies such as AOL, Time Warner, and Cricket Media, technology and government service companies such as Macromedia and SRA, drug development companies such as Pharmacyclics and GlycoFi, and medical device companies such as BrainScope.
Gilburne has also served as a board member of numerous non-profit organizations, including the Board of Trustees of The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. He received a B.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Michael A. Epstein was a senior partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he practiced law for over 40 years until he retired in 2022. He is the founder and former head of Weil’s Technology & Intellectual Property Transactions practice and the co-head of the Firm’s Privacy & Cybersecurity group. Mr. Epstein also founded the Firm’s office in Silicon Valley which specializes in technology and intellectual property and served for many years on the Firm’s Management Committee and the Corporate Department Leadership group.
Mr. Epstein is the Immediate Past Chairman of the Board of Northwell Health System having served as Chair for the full four-year term (2019-2023). In addition to continuing to serve on Northwell’s Board, he is a member of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee, and a member of the Compensation, Finance, Legal Affairs, and Quality Committees. He is also a member of the board of Northwell’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Mr. Epstein is also Immediate Past Co-Chair of the Board of the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and continues to serve on the Board. He is Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, at the Zucker School of Medicine where he teaches medical ethics. In addition, Mr. Epstein is a member of the Board of the Jonas Salk Foundation and the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, where he is also on the Executive Committee. Mr. Epstein is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Arts & Sciences at Lehigh University. He has served on advisory panels to Congress and to the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine.
Mr. Epstein is the author of the treatise Epstein on Intellectual Property, and co-author of On-line - Internet Law, International Intellectual Property, and a co-editor of Drafting License Agreements and The Corporate Counsellor’s Deskbook. He is a founder and co-editor of Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal and a member of the Editorial Boards of Computer Lawyer, Intellectual Property Strategist, and Cyberspace Lawyer. He is the author of more than 60 articles on intellectual property law, has lectured worldwide on intellectual property matters, and has served as a guest lecturer at many of the leading law schools in the U.S.
James Peake was United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from 2007 to 2009. In 2004, he retired from a 42-year United States Army career. He also served as the 40th Surgeon General of the United States Army. Peake received his Bachelor of Science degree from U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry. He served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division where he was awarded the Silver Star, a Bronze Star with "V" device, and the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster. Following his service in Vietnam, he attended Cornell University’s Weill Cornell Medical College and was awarded a medical doctorate in 1972. He is also a graduate of the United States Army War College, in 1988. He retired from the Army in 2004, as a Lieutenant General.
Dr. Peake served for four years as the United States Army Surgeon General. He also served as commander of several Army medical units. Previous key assignments include Commander, U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School and Installation Commander, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Commanding General, Madigan Army Medical Center/Northwest Health Service Support Activity, Tacoma, Washington; Commanding General, 44th Medical Brigade/Corps Surgeon, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Deputy Director, Professional Services/Chief, Consultant, Office of the Surgeon General, Falls Church, Virginia; Commander, 18th Medical Command and 121st Evacuation Hospital/Command Surgeon, Seoul, Korea; Deputy Commander for Clinical Services, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii; Assistant Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Staff General Surgeon/Chief, General Surgery Clinic, DeWitt Army Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Va.; and General Surgery Resident, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
After retiring from the Army, Dr. Peake served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Project Hope, a non-profit international health foundation operating in more than 30 countries. While at Project HOPE he helped to orchestrate the use of civilian volunteers aboard the Navy Hospital Ship Mercy as it responded to the Tsunami disaster in Indonesia and also as part of the Hurricane Katrina response aboard the Hospital Ship Comfort.
Dr. Miller is the co-founder, chief executive officer and chairman of Corvus Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that is focused on the development and commercialization of novel oncology and immunology therapies. He also currently serves as adjunct clinical professor of medicine (oncology) at Stanford University Medical Center. A successful serial entrepreneur, Dr. Miller founded several private and public biotech companies. These include Pharmacyclics (acquired by AbbVie), where he was co-founder and CEO and led the initial discovery and development efforts for Imbruvica® (ibrutinib); IDEC (which merged to form Biogen IDEC, now Biogen), where he led research efforts on lymphoma culminating in the development of Rituxan® (rituximab); Principia Biopharma, Inc.; and CellPro, Inc. Dr. Miller received the Drug Hunter Award from the University of California Drug Discovery Consortium in 2020. Dr. Miller currently serves on the Board of Bolt Biotherapeutics, Inc, a public biotechnology company and Leapfrog Bio, Inc, a private biotech company.
Cynthia Ringo is a Senior Partner of DBL Partners and a Managing Partner of a prior fund managed under DBL Investors. Cynthia Ringo currently sits on the board of directors of The RealReal, Urbansitter, Maiyet, RubyRibbon, Siva Power, and the Bay Area BUILD and is a member of WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) Foundation. She also served on the board of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs from 2000 to 2004, and as Chair of the Board from 2001 through 2003. Ms. Ringo was formerly a Managing Director of VantagePoint Venture Partners from 2002 to 2008. Prior to VantagePoint Venture Partners, she served as the CEO of Coppercom, a next-generation network switching company, from 1998 to 2001 and was the Chairman of the Board from 2001 to 2002.
Ralph Terkowitz is an experienced executive and investor who has had a long career operating and investing in disruptive innovation. He believes that success in this domain requires out-of-the-box thinking. This mindset led to his founding or investing in operating companies such as establishing Digital Ink/WashingtonPost.com, Junglee now Amazon’s marketplace business, and Alarm.com.
Mr. Terkowitz has a keen interest in supporting research to facilitate the long-term understanding of the brain. This interest led Mr. Terkowitz to his current commitment to the Packard Center at Johns Hopkins. Mr. Terkowitz is co-chair of the Board of Governors of the Johns Hopkins Packard Center, a leading early-stage research effort that is investing in early-stage research to expand our understanding of ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Mr. Terkowitz's other board experience includes American Military University, Brassring/IBM, Innovation Interactive, Truste, eCornell, and Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute. He holds an A.B. in Chemistry from Cornell University and an M.S. in Chemical Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Gail Wilensky is an economist and a senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health education foundation. She serves as a trustee of the Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mineworkers of America and the National Opinion Research Center, is on the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), and the Visiting Committee of Harvard Medical and Dental Schools. She recently served as president of the Defense Health Board and chaired their Health care Subcommittee, was a commissioner on the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, and co-chaired the Dept. of Defense Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care.
She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and has served two terms on its governing council. She is a former chair of the board of directors of Academy Health, a former trustee of the American Heart Association, and a current or former director of numerous other non-profit organizations. She is also a director on several corporate boards. From 1990-1992, she was Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (now known as CMS), directing the Medicare and Medicaid programs. She also served as Deputy Assistant to President (GHW) Bush for Policy Development, advising him on health and welfare issues from 1992-1993.
From 1997-2001, she chaired the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on payment and other issues relating to Medicare, and previously chaired one of its predecessor commissions, the Physician Payment Review Commission. From 2001 to 2003, she co-chaired the President’s Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation’s Veterans and in 2007, served as a Commissioner on the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors (Dole/Shalala Commission).
Dr. Wilensky testifies frequently before Congressional committees, serves as an advisor to members of Congress and other elected officials, speaks nationally and internationally before professional, business, and consumer groups. She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan and has received several honorary degrees.
Michael (“Mike”) Kelly has been active for more than 40 years as an executive of broad management and finance, including serving as Chief Financial Officer of two Fortune 50 companies and Chief Executive Officer of International Operations. He has extensive experience with all aspects of financial operations, capital raising and financing activities, as well as investor relations.
Since 2006, Mr. Kelly has served as an active private investor, strategic advisor and Board Member to a number of organizations on strategic, financial and organizational matters. This includes firms listed on the NYSE, small venture firms, and not for profit organizations, such as INOVA Health Systems, Catholic Charities and Ingleside Retirement Community.
Prior to 2006, Mr. Kelly was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AOL International and Web Services. Mr. Kelly previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Time Warner.
Mr. Kelly is a Certified Public Accountant and a graduate of Gettysburg College with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration. He currently serves on the Finance Counsel of the Archdiocese of Washington, Chairman of the Catholic Investment Trust of Washington, and Chairman of Catholic Charities Foundation of Washington. He is a member of the Board of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and a Trustee Emeriti of Gettysburg College and on the Board of Cricket Media and Patrocinium Systems.
Our mission is to improve brain health by providing objective diagnostic insights that enable better patient care
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Dr. John O’Neill |
Allegheny General Hospital |
Dr. Rosanne Naunheim |
Barnes Jewish Hospital/Washington University St. Louis |
Dr. John Garrett |
Baylor University |
Dr. Tamara Espinoza |
Emory University- Grady Hospital |
Dr. Joao Delgado |
Hartford Hospital |
Dr. Tracey Covassin |
Michigan State University |
Dr. Kenneth Podell |
Rice University |
Dr. Christopher Neville |
SUNY Upstate Medical University |
Dr. Robert Elbin |
University of Arkansas |
Dr. Douglas Casa |
University of Connecticut |
Dr. Neeraj Badjatia |
University of Maryland Medical Center/ R. Cowley Shock Trauma Hospital |
Dr. Gillian Hotz |
University of Miami |
Dr. Andrew Mayer |
University of New Mexico |
Dr. Jeffrey Bazarian |
University of Rochester Medical Center |
Dr. Susan Yeargin |
University of South Carolina |
Dr. Rebecca Lopez |
University of South Florida |
Dr. David Schnyer |
University of Texas at Austin |
Dr. J. Stephen Huff |
University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA |
Dr. Elizabeth Jones |
UT-Houston Health Science Center Houston, TX |
Dr. Brian O’Neil |
Wayne State University/ Detroit Receiving Hospital & Sinai Grace Hospital |
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