Team

Management team

Steven Schwimmer, CEO

As a hands-on business leader and senior executive I have a record of success and expertise in turnarounds and restructuring, expanding to new markets, and creating high-performance corporate cultures. I excel at guiding businesses through periods of rapid growth and consistently achieve desired results for the organizations I represent.

Duncan McClure,COO

I hold a M.S. in Nanosience and Microsystems at UNM. I am a materials engineer by training and have interned at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and built valuable experience in technology development and testing. I was also the president of the Association of Aspiring Technology Entrepreneurs (AATE) from 2013-2014. While there, I worked with my colleague, Anh-Dung Le, to help bring in some paid, long lasting internships through collaboration with a high-tech recruiter.

Matt Aaron, CMO

I am passionate about people. I have worked in business with members from different walks of life, and love connecting with people and hearing their stories,I started and ran a local business with revenues up to $500k within 2 years.

Peter Rinn, Chief Strategist

I am a social entrepreneur and a retired attorney with over 40 years’ experience in successfully starting-up, rejuvenating and leading programs / organizations in the business, nonprofit and public sectors. I “throw away the box” when creating innovative solutions to intractable problems and turn tough challenges into exciting opportunities. I was a designated driver before it was cool and am committed to stopping the carnage caused by drunk drivers.

ADVISORS

DR. FRANK ETSCORN

First patent holder for the nicotine patch for use in tobacco cessation. The patent was licensed to Ciba-Geigy, now Novartis, and sold as the Habitrol patch. It is also marketed over-the-counter by Walmart (Equate), Kroger and Walgreens. He was named in most influential Kentuckians of the 20th Century. Dr. Etscorn holds the Lexington Herald-Leader “Products of the Year” and “Innovation" awards for the Nicotine Patch.

DR. JAMES LEARY

Dr. Leary received his Ph.D. in Biophysics at Penn State University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a professor, researcher and inventor for 37 years at University of Rochester Medical School, UTMB Galveston, and Purdue University. He also has 15 years' experience in development of biomolecular and nanotechnology-based biosensors with colorimetric, fluorescence, or plasmonic-based output signals.

Helene Blanchette, MBA

Accomplished business leader and B2B marketing strategist presently based in California, after a 9-year career in Asia as regional GM (VP) for Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific Pte, Ltd. Helene is currently a managing consultant for GlobalFluency Inc.(GF), assisting, from the US, clients of GF in succeeding their expansion and sustainable business implementation, including team management and coaching of country leaders (remote international management). She is also a senior collaborator/writer of the Output Links Group (OLG) for their magazines and online news platform.