William P. Wiesmann M.D., Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder
Dr. Wiesmann, co-founder of HemCon, is the President and Founder of a consulting company and several small biotech companies collectively called the BioSTAR Group. Dr. Wiesmann served as the Director for Combat Casualty Care at the US Army Medical Research and Material Command Post, at Ft. Detrick in Frederick, Maryland until he retired from the Army as a Colonel in 1997. Throughout his career, Dr. Wiesmann has garnered extensive business expertise, including formation of R&D partnerships and teaming agreements between government, industry, and academic laboratories, as well as directing multi-million dollar programs for DARPA, NASA, and the Army Medical Research and Material Command. Dr. Wiesmann has successfully led or assisted in taking six medical products successfully through FDA approval to the market and has overseen simultaneous multi-million dollar awards on development of medical products with successful performance and delivery.
Dr. Wiesmann has been published in over 70 scientific publications, authored 5 book chapters and has 45 patents awarded and pending. He is a member of the University of Cincinnati Department of Biomedical Engineering External Advisory Board, and a member of the National Council at Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Wiesmann received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Cincinnati and his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He completed advanced research training as a fellow at the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Wiesmann served as a senior scientist at the Walter Reed Institute of Research and as an attending nephrologist at Walter Reed Hospital. In 2008, Dr. Wiesmann was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Cincinnati.
Kenton Gregory M.D., Board Member
Dr. Kenton Gregory, co-founder of HemCon, is an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology and an assistant professor of medicine at Oregon Health and Science University. He also holds an endowed chair in laser medicine and surgery at the Providence St. Vincent Medical Center and serves as director at the Oregon Medical Laser Center (OMLC), which collaborates nationally in investigating such fields as hemorrhage control, laser thrombolysis for stroke, and elastin biomaterials for the repair and replacement of tissues.
Gregory received his undergraduate degree in engineering and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Southern California. He completed his internship, residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Cardiology at the Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles, California, and an additional research fellowship in Cardiology at the Irvine Medical Center in Orange, CA. He has held teaching positions at the University of California, Irvine Medical School, Harvard University School of Medicine and served as staff cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Gregory has been awarded 19 domestic patents, 3 international patents, has authored and/or co-authored 11 original reports, 4 book chapters, 36 manuscripts, and 80 abstracts. He has been Principal Investigator on 5 FDA sponsored clinical trials and received over $25 million in grants to research novel techniques for the repair and replacement of tissues. He is a member of numerous medical societies including the American Medical Society, American Heart Association, Society for Biomaterials and the American College of Cardiology, and he chairs a Cardiovascular Section at The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Andrew Miller, CEO, Stimson Lumber, Board Member
Andrew W. Miller is the President/CEO of Stimson Lumber Company in Portland, OR. Stimson is an integrated timberland and wood products manufacturing company with operations in OR, WA, ID, and MT. Prior to joining Stimson in 1991, Mr. Miller was employed in the Forest Products Industry with Plum Creek Timber and Weyerhaeuser.
Mr. Miller serves on multiple regional and national industry association Boards, and several non-profit Boards in the Portland area.
Mr. Miller graduated from Grinnell College (Grinnell IA) with a BA in Economics, and earned an MBA in Finance from Columbia University (New York NY).
Richard M. Berkeley, Board Member
Mr. Berkeley is a Partner and joined Camden Partners in 2002. Prior to joining Camden, he spent 19 years with Alex. Brown & Sons, Inc. and its successor organizations, Bankers Trust Corporation and Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. Mr. Berkeley focuses on investments in the business and financial services, health care and education markets for the firm.
Previously, Richard was Managing Director and Global Head of the Equity Private Placements Group at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., where he was responsible for the origination, structuring, and consummation of private equity financings for private and public companies. During his tenure, Mr. Berkeley and his team members completed more than 135 private equity financings for private and public companies.
He has served, or is currently serving, on the Boards of Directors of a number of public and private companies, educational institutions, and charitable organizations including RealPage, Inc., WageWorks, Inc., HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc., TradeBeam Holdings, Inc., IncentOne, Inc., and Barton-Cotton, Inc.
Following graduate school, he practiced law at Dell, Craighill, Fentress & Benton between 1980 and 1983. He also served as an officer in the United States Air Force between 1974 and 1976. Mr. Berkeley is a former member of the Board of Managers of the University of Virginia Alumni Association, and he is former President and a current member of the Board of Directors of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia.
Mr. Berkeley earned his B.A., J.D., and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Virginia.
Gregory Newbold, Board Member
Gregory Newbold is a retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General and current partner in Torch Hill Investment Partners. In the Marine Corps, he commanded units from platoon to the 1st Marine Division, and his last job was as Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He serves on the Board of Directors of Camelbak, Capgemini Government Solutions, Jameson Lighting, and Diamondback Tactical. General Newbold also chairs the Torch Hill Professional Partners Group.