Joseph Mussey, Chairman
Mr. Mussey was recently appointed as Chairman to the Board of Directors at US Spine. Mr. Mussey contributes nearly thirty years of outstanding corporate leadership experience to US Spine, being responsible for the exponential increase of sales and shareholder value with his previous companies. Mr. Mussey served as President and Chief Operating officer of Interpore Cross International driving sales from $30 million to $100 million during his tenure. Prior to that, he served as President and chief Executive Officer of Cross Medical Products, Inc., diversifying the company into multiple segments, which forced sales growth from $.3 million to $13 million in 1997. A graduate of the United Sates Navy Officer Candidate School, Mr. Mussey served in the United States Navy for four years, holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, and an MBA from Harvard University.
James
G. Koman
Mr. Koman, 44, is Founder and Manager of MSK Investments, LLC, a venture capital and equity fund that invests in both start up ventures and existing companies. Koman has been activity in the VC arena as an angel investor since the late 1990s and launched MSK in 2002. Since then MSK has invested in a variety of successful companies, including: Semaphore Pharmaceuticals, SOMA Networks, EBETS, Espeedient, Akermin, Force 10 Networks and Augry Fund
Mr. Koman is a Co-founder of US Spine and continues to serve on the company’s board. He also is a member of the St. Louis Arch Angels investment group, which has invested a total of $14 million in a variety of start up and early stage companies since 2005. He is Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Equity Capital Management, LLC and the ECM Income & Growth Fund, LLC, a private real estate investment company. In addition, he is President of Koman Properties, Inc., a Midwest-based retail development company through which he has developed more than 4.5 million square-feet of office, retail and casino assets throughout the United States. He is Co-owner and President of the Casino Queen gaming operation in East St. Louis, Ill., directly across from St. Louis’ Gateway Arch.
Mr. Koman serves on the board of the Missouri Growth Association, is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and has been a member of numerous panels for ULI, the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association, and the International Council of Shopping Centers. He also maintains or has had recent Board of Director involvement with several local and national charities, including Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, the Alzheimer’s Association, John Burroughs School, Junior Achievement and Gateway Trailnet.
Mr. Koman and his various real estate developments have also been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, most notably in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and a variety of real estate trade journals.
He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986 with an AB degree in Economics.
Doris M. Blake
Ms. Blake is a veteran in the spine and orthopedic industry, with
over 25 years of sales, marketing, management and operations
experience in the medical device field. For two decades, she has
held leadership positions with publicly traded and privately held
companies, establishing new vision, developing strategic direction,
recruiting management, sales and marketing teams consistently
resulting in 'over market growth'
as well as rapid development and FDA approval of Class II and Class
III medical devices.
Recent assignments include the implementation of a strategic plan
for Encore Medical’s spine
products group, culminating in triple
digit growth, as well as providing strategic guidance to an early
stage spine implant company acquired by Medtronic. Ms. Blake's vast
experience in the spine /
orthopedic markets, her track record for establishing surgeon
focused organizations as well as strong established relationships
within the medical community provide additional depth to the team
that she has created to lead the company’s
continued product development and commercialization efforts. Prior
to her work in the medical device industry, Ms. Blake held a
leadership position for a multicenter provider organization,
developing a novel, computerized patient
assessment database
program in affiliation with the Harvard
Center for Community Health. Ms. Blake completed the University of
Tennessee’s program for Health Care Administration, graduating in
1973.
Casey L. Gunnell
Mr. Gunnell brings over thirty years of broad business experience
in Senior Executive positions in entrepreneurial and rapid growth
sales based companies. Mr. Gunnell has held pivotal positions
in startup, turnaround and mature organizations. He has served
on the Board of Directors for several private companies and one
publicly traded company.
In addition to US
Spine, he is currently a director eProcessLink, Inc. a startup
shared services software
provider. Mr. Gunnell was a key member of the HealthSouth Corp.
restructuring team and a major contributor to that successful
turnaround. In addition, Mr. Gunnell has been very active in
the local community with past service on the Boca Raton Chamber
of Commerce and the Florida Atlantic University Foundation
where he served as Chairman of the Investment Committee.
Mr.
Gunnell
received a Bachelors of Business Administration degree from
Florida Atlantic University in Accounting and is a Florida
Certified Public Accountant, inactive.
John Cobb
John Cobb, M.D. is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons since 1976 and certified by the American Board of Spine surgeons since 2001. He has been practicing in Lafayette Louisiana after graduating in 1970 from Louisiana State University School of Medicine. He did his internship and residency at New Orleans charity Hospital.
He is currently involved in a wide range of associations as founder and partner including; Lafayette location of Meadowbrook Rehabilitation Hospital (12 years), Lafayette Surgical Specialty Hospital (3 years), Southern Spine Institute¿s out-patient facility (10 years), Practical Healthcare (15 years), Surgical Spine, and Acadiana Imaging.
Hospital affiliations include; Lafayette Surgical Specialty Hospital, Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Lafayette General Medical Center, Southwest Medical Center and Heart Hospital of Lafayette.
Dr. Cobb is currently active in the following business ventures; Jeunesse, which is Medispa (aesthetics, longevity, age management and cenegenics), as a founder of C-C Medical where he invented and patented the Allograft prep instruments, along with being actively involved as founder and managing partner at the Lafayette Bone and Joint Clinic.
His previous business ventures include the following; Swenson Ice Cream Factory as owner/operator for 10 years, founder of Copper Rivet Retail Clothing for 15 years, founder/operator of Land Development Company, an acquisition and development property company for mobile home parks, founder of the Blue Water Charter Company, which is an offshore sport-fishing company in the Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas, founder/operator of a vehicle and equipment leasing company called Oil City Leasing, and a partner in a building company called Home Construction Company.
Other associations that Dr. Cobb is currently involved in as a founder/owner include, Environmental Solutions, Revenue Management Solutions, Woodland Hills Equestrian Center, and Corporate Aviation.
Ted Schwarzrock
Ted Schwarzrock, a seasoned executive in the healthcare field, has held numerous positions in publicly traded and privately held companies including "Fortune 500" firms.
Mr. Schwarzrock joined Dermatrends, Incorporated, as Chairman, CEO and President in 1999. Dermatrends is a privately held medical research and development company dedicated to the development of proprietary technologies for use in transdermal drug delivery.
From 1993 through 1998, Ted was part of the executive management team at SpineTech, Inc. an innovative spinal implant company. His accomplishments at SpineTech included the development of their sales organization and the launch of a revolutionary spinal implant device, driving sales from $2M to $50M in a 15 month timeframe. SpineTech was purchased by Sulzer Medica in January 1998 for $595M with trailing revenues of $50M.
From 1991 through 1993, Ted was Vice-President of Ergodyne Corporation, a privately held manufacturer of products designed to reduce the incidence of back injuries. He was previously Vice-President and General Manager of Glassrock Home Health Care, a $175 MM division of British Oxygen Corporation.
Mr. Schwarzrock has held other senior management positions with: Biomedical Dynamics Corporation; Space Labs, Inc.; Aequitron Medical, Inc.; and, Cobe Laboratories, Inc.
Ted Schwarzrock holds a Bachelor of Medical Science degree from the University of Minnesota where he also attended the University of Minnesota Medical School. He resides in Minneapolis with his wife Ruth and three children.
