Team Group: Board of Directors

Leo Petrossian is the current Chief Executive Officer of Neurolutions, Inc. He is an experienced nanotechnologist searching for challenging opportunities in biotechnology and medical device entre- and intrapreneurship. Previously he co-founded Neural Analytics and is also the CEO of Nile AI, Inc.

Dr. Petrossian earned his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2014 and earned his Ph.D. & MS in Biomolecular Nanotechnology & Solid-State Device Physics as an NSF IGERT fellow at Arizona State University in 2007. He also holds a double B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering from California State University, Long Beach.

Kevin Reilly joined Ally Bridge Group in 2021 and is a Managing Director, Head of Medtech, for the private equity strategy, focused on transactions across healthcare subsectors. Before joining Ally Bridge Group, Kevin was a Principal at CRG, a healthcare investment management firm providing growth capital to companies through the form of long-term debt and equity. Kevin began his career in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Stifel. Kevin holds a B.S. in Finance and Information Systems from the University of Maryland.

Fred Khosravi is a Silicon Valley medical device entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in medical technology, including management and executive positions in both large and small enterprises. He has co-founded Incept LLC and serves as its managing director, focusing on technology innovation and entrepreneurship in the life-sciences field and occasionally extending to information technology.

Fred is credited as an inventor or co-inventor on over 200 patents and patent applications globally, holds degrees in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Tech University, and is involved in various organizations such as the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Spirit of America, and Technology for America.

Amarpreet Sawhney is the President and CEO of Ocular Therapeutix, a company that specializes in ophthalmic surgical wound management and drug delivery. Before that, he founded and led Confluent Surgical, a biosurgery company that was acquired by Covidien. He was also the Chairman of MarketRx, a pharmaceutical marketing and sales analytics provider that was acquired by Cognizant. Dr. Sawhney has founded and is a member of the board of several companies, including Ostial Corp., TiE Boston, Ocular Therapeutix, Augmenix, and Incept LLC.

He has also received numerous awards, including the MassDevice “Five Most Innovative Medical Device CEOs” award and the MIT Global Indus Technovators Award. Dr. Sawhney has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi.

William Tai is a successful entrepreneur and investor with over 30 years of experience in the technology industry. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Amed Ventures, a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital fund focused on Medical Device and Medical Technologies investments.

He is also the former VP of Business Development at CTBC Bank Corp. William has earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from National Chengchi University and an MBA from Baruch College.

Stavros G. Vizirgianakis was the former Chief Executive Officer of Misonix (MSON) from 2016- 2021. He has a distinguished career in the medical devices field having worked for United States Surgical Corporation as director of sales for sub-Saharan Africa and later Tyco Healthcare in the capacity of General Manager South Africa.

In 2006, Vizirgianakis co-founded Surgical Innovations, one of the largest privately owned medical device distributors in the African region which later became part of the Ascendis Health group. He also served on the boards of Tenaxis Medical and Bioventus. Current board positions include Tally Surgical and Theragenics.

He is a strategic investor and advisor to numerous startups and established companies in the medical device field. Vizirgianakis has a Degree in Commerce from the University of South Africa.