Patients and the ProPep AdvantageTom Stone Chief Executive Officer
Tom Stone brings a breadth of entrepreneurial experience in development and late stage medical device and drug therapy companies. Tom’s prior experience includes the fields of Cardiovascular, Diabetes, and HIV. Tom has previously served in senior positions responsible for commercialization, sales, and the development and implementation of reimbursement policy in both commercial and government sectors. Tom received a Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois University.
Jim Schneider Chief Operating Officer
Jim Schneider is a senior medical device executive with over 30 years of US and international medical device development and commercialization experience. With over 16 medical device patents, Jim also has extensive experience with organization building, strategic planning, execution of virtual business models, intellectual property estate development and management of multi-functional project teams.
As President of Leto Medical, LLC, Jim developed electrical stimulation technology to free individuals from having to wear colostomy bags. As President & CTO – Zassi Medical Evolutions, LLC, Jim developed GI tract products focused on continence control and waste management.
Jann Bonfils-Rasmussen Co-founder and VP of Sales
Jann is an experienced medical executive with over 30 years of International and Domestic Marketing experience in specialized medical capital equipment and related disposables including: Urodynamic systems for evaluation of the Lower Urinary Tract, Neurodiagnostic systems (EMG, EP, EEG, IONM, Polysomnography, TCD) for evaluation of the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems.
Jann has held senior positions with several of the leading clinical diagnostic device manufactures in the field of clinical electro diagnostics and intra-operative neurological monitoring and has been involved in taking several related products from concept to commercial launch.
Randy Fagin, MD Chief Medical Advisor
With an experience of over 2,000 da Vinci surgeries, Dr. Randy Fagin is an internationally recognized name in da Vinci® robotic surgery. He has performed surgery all over the world, has published articles on robotic surgery, serves on faculty for robotic conferences both here in the US and overseas, runs advanced courses for robotic surgery, has been a Consulting Editor for peer reviewed journals, and holds positions of senior medical advisor, medical advisory board member, and consultant for several medical device companies.
Dr. Fagin is the Chief Administrative Officer of the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery.
Dr. Fagin is board certified by the American Board of Urology.
Jim Stone Chief Financial Officer
Jim Stone has extensive experience in the management of assets, negotiation of business transactions, legal structuring, tax, and risk management for multiple projects in diversified business areas. He previously worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young where he was responsible for the management of high net worth individuals & families investment assets.
Jim brings start-up experience as a co-founder of a successful finance company. Jim is a licensed CPA & Certified Financial Planner. Jim graduated from Illinois State University with a Bachelors Degree in Finance and attended Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville for post-graduate education in accounting.
Jon Schiff Co-founder
As a co-founder of the ProPep Surgical® technology, Jon has extensive experience in Intraoperative monitoring in the Neurologic, Orthopedic, Vascular, ENT, and Urologic fields. Jon has owned and operated Intraoperative monitoring companies throughout the southern US since 1999. With the recent acquisition of his company, Jon remains active in the field as a partner through several Intraoperative monitoring companies throughout the southern United States.