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Lee H. Lytton, III
Professor Lee Lytton graduated from St. Mary’s Law
School (San Antonio, TX) with High Honors in 1968. Following
graduation, he served as briefing attorney to the late Judge
K.K. Woodley, Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals. He was a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, subsequently joining the St. Mary’s law
faculty at the behest of Dean James N. Castleberry in
January 1987. He has published a book on Texas Real Property
Law and he has served as a member of the Institutional
Review Board of Southwest Methodist Hospital in San Antonio;
and he is a ten year member of the Board of Directors of
Fairway Medical Technologies, Inc.
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William McLucas
William McLucas is currently
President of Medical Center laboratory LLP II, Houston
Texas. (MCL). MCL is a provider of full service clinical
laboratories to all aspects of the Houston medical
community. From November 1, 2003 to January 15, 2006 he was
President of mergers and acquisitions for Clinical Labs USA,
of Houston Texas (CLUSA). This company is a full service
medical laboratory providing work to the long term care
industry. The company was conceived and developed by a group
of lab owners and an investment banki^l g group. It became
one of the largest privately held laboratories in the
southwest. From June, 1986 to November, 2003 he was
President and CEO of Alliance Clinical Laboratories. This
company was built and started in Houston Texas. At the time
of its merger with Clinical labs USA, it had offices in six
cities, three hundred workers and sales in excess of twelve
million dollars. Beginning in January, 1983 throughout
June 1986 Mr. McLucas was Founder and President of National
Medical Financial Services (NMFS). NMFS was a home
healthcare company that specialized in the sale of durable
medical equipment. The company sales included the sale of
all types of home use walkers, wheelchairs, hospital beds
and home use medical needs. The company was also a provider
of continuous use oxygen for people with respiratory
failure. NMFS was sold to a public company in 1986.
Mr. McLucas developed a program for veterinary laboratory
service for clinics throughout the country. Based in
Houston, it serviced over twenty five hundred veterinarians
from our Lab. With sales of over four million dollars the
lab was sold to Vet Centers of America, a public company.
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D. Bradley McWilliams
Mr. D. Bradley McWilliams, a Certified Public
Accountant and Attorney at Law received his BBA and JD
requires at the University of Texas (Austin). He did post
graduate work at New York University and Harvard University.
He spent 32 Years with Cooper Industries LTD, (CBE – NYSE),
and retired as their chief Financial officer in 2003, after
32 years of service Mr. McWilliams has served on many
corporate boards both for profit and non-profit boards, he
is a life member of the Board of the YMCA of the Greater
Houston area Inc. (which includes 42 branches in the greater
Houston area) and he recently joined the University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston (UT- Houston) development
board. Mr. McWilliams currently serve as a Board member,
chairman of the Audit committee and a member of the Finance
committee of McDermott International Inc. (MDR – NYSE); Mr.
McWilliams is a major shareholder and member of The Board
of Directors of Fairway Medical Technologies Inc.
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Morteza Naghavi, M.D.
Dr. Naghavi is an innovative medical doctor and researcher with interests in preventive cardiology, medical technology, and home healthcare. He graduated as a M.D. from Tehran University and was trained as a cardiovascular physician scientist under distinguished cardiologists Dr. S. Ward Casscells III and Dr. James T. Willerson at the Texas Heart Institute and the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Dr. Naghavi is internationally recognized as a leader in heart attack prevention initiatives. Through his years of efforts in advancing the field of preventive cardiology, Dr. Naghavi founded the Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication (SHAPE) and is the Executive Chairman of the SHAPE Task Force, an international non-profit coalition to overhaul the traditional (ineffective) methods of identifying individuals at risk of a near future heart attack. In 2009, the SHAPE organization helped pass Texas legislation HB1290 as the first heart attack preventive screening law in the United States. Dr. Naghavi has a number of collaborative academic research projects including NIH and NSF funded studies. He has numerous publications in scientific journals, most notably two major consensus statements (Part I and Part II) and the SHAPE Guidelines. He is also the editor of “Asymptomatic Atherosclerosis: Pathophysiology, Detection and Treatment”, the most comprehensive textbook on risk assessment of the Vulnerable Patient. Along with academic activities, Dr. Naghavi is also an inventor and entrepreneur with over 30 patents and 5 companies one of which is listed on NASDAQ: VOLC. He is currently the President and CEO of Fairway Medical Technologies and IN3 Ventures. Dr. Naghavi is passionate about transforming new ideas into healthcare solutions, and welcomes innovative proposals from physicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
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Ken Walz
Kenneth G. Walz a partner and co-founder of Popper
and Company has spent more than 19 years in the biotech and
medical device industries in business development and
finance roles and has broad experience in the structuring
and negotiation of collaborative arrangements, strategy
development, and financial planning and analysis. At Popper
and Company he assists early stage companies in all aspects
of financial planning, capital raising, and business
development including deal structuring and negotiation.
Prior to co-founding Popper and Company, Mr. Walz was
employed as VP Commercial Development at MDS Proteomics
where he led the negotiation of a $50 million research
collaboration with a leading biopharmaceutical company
focused on discovery of therapeutics to treat diseases of
the central nervous system. Previously, he managed business
planning and analysis for BDGene, a unit of Becton Dickinson
& Company. While at BDGene, he played a lead role in the
evaluation of alliance candidates, creation of a business
development strategy, deal valuation and structuring, and
negotiation and closing of agreements. Mr. Walz earned a
Master’s of Science in Finance from Loyola College of
Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the
University of Maryland.
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Leo Womack
Leo B. Womack, has been the President and a
director of Gulf Equities Realty Advisors, Inc., a
diversified real estate portfolio management company, since
1986. He has been and continues to serve as the Executive
Chairman of Fairway Medical Technologies, Inc., a medical
device commercialization company and a portfolio company of
the Baylor College of Medicine Venture Fund since 1996. From
1969 to 1978, Mr. Womack was the managing partner of a local
and later national CPA firm. He has served on the Board of
several public companies and is a past president and
Chairman of the Houston Angel Network. Mr. Womack is
licensed as a certified public accountant, and as a real
estate broker. He is also an active member of NACD the
National Association of Corporate Directors.
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