The people
Built around the risk that actually decides device companies: getting through clearance and into manufacturing.
Jonathan Kiev, MD, FACS
Founder and Chairman
Practicing board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon of thirty-plus years, Armed Forces veteran, fellowship-trained at the Mayo Clinic, Pittsburgh, and Loma Linda; invented K-CAD and leads Kiventa's clinical direction.
Stewart Skomra
Chief Executive Officer
Forty years commercializing advanced technologies as founder, chief executive, and senior leader at IBM, Qualcomm, Intel, and Trimble; leads Kiventa's business strategy, capital formation, and commercialization.
Alisha Bergin
Chief Operating Officer
Twenty-five years advancing medical devices from concept through commercialization; leads Kiventa's operational execution from funding through regulatory clearance and commercial launch.
The program is supported by specialist consultants in regulatory strategy (Mark Kramer, former founding director of FDA's Office of Combination Products, consulting to Kiventa Foundry) and in manufacturing and quality systems (Brian McCollum, GSD Medical Device Consulting). Advisors spanning capital strategy, emergency medicine, clinical evidence, air medical operations, and tactical medicine support the team, including Howard Ragsdale, advisor to PatientCare EMS Solutions and Grant Avenue Capital on ground EMS acquisitions after business development and strategic alliance leadership at Air Methods and Apollo MedFlight. Names are available on request.