Management Team
Dr. Robert Wilkins
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Wilkins is a former anesthesiologist and
critical care physician, with 10 years of clinical practice and
some two decades of international healthcare industry experience
in product development, marketing and business development. In addition
to positions at Abbott Laboratories and Baxter Healthcare, and in
small start-up environments, he ran a successful practice as a marketing
and business development consultant to Fortune 500 and start-up
healthcare companies.
Dr. Wilkins received his medical training in
Manchester, England, subsequently becoming an attending staff anesthesiologist
and critical care specialist at the University Hospital of South
Manchester. After leaving medical practice in 1987, he was medical
director of Hausmann/Vifor, a Swiss pharmaceutical company in Geneva.
Four years later he joined Abbott Laboratories as medical director
in the Hospital Products Division, with key roles in the development
of new medical devices. Later, as marketing director for Abbott’s
HealthSystems Division, he was responsible for marketing medical
devices, clinical diagnostics and pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Wilkins left Abbott in 1999 to join Baxter
Healthcare’s anesthesia group as director of business development,
and, in late 2000, became chief scientific officer and vice president
of marketing of Physiometrix, a start-up medical device company.
Since 2001, Dr. Wilkins has been a consultant to Battelle Ventures
and other venture capital organizations, as well as to such medical
device companies as the Cardiac Assist Division of Datascope and
GlucoLight Corp.
Widely published on the topics of critical care
and anesthesiology, Dr. Wilkins earned his MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine
and Bachelor of Surgery degrees awarded in the U.K., equivalent
to M.D. qualification in the United States) from the University
of Manchester in 1977. In 1982 he became a fellow of the Royal College
of Anaesthetists, receiving the designation FRCA, which is equivalent
to board certification stateside. He is a member of the Association
of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Society
of Critical Care Medicine.
Todd Tomba
Vice President, Research & Development
Todd Tomba, who has almost two decades of experience
in the healthcare/medical device industry, manages Endovalve’s
outsourced product development program, overseeing some 20 Foster-Miller
engineers.
During Mr. Tomba’s career, he spent 12
years with Abbott Laboratories (1988-2000), advancing through several
engineering and program management roles. In his last role there,
he was responsible for R&D for a $100M+ medical device business
unit within the Ross Products Division, where he developed and managed
the development of many innovative durable and disposable medical
products.
In 2000, Mr. Tomba joined Battelle Memorial
Institute, as vice president of the Medical Device Solutions business
unit of the Health and Life Sciences Division. There he was responsible
for identifying and developing high-potential health care technologies
and new venture opportunities – negotiating and closing business
deals with major pharmaceutical and medical device companies and
leading universities; and developing/managing intellectual property
protection and investment strategies. In that role, Mr. Tomba had
general management responsibilities for the division’s contract
R&D business and supervised more than 110 engineers, scientists
and sales, marketing and business support staff.
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