Tony provides consulting services to the medical device industry and has more than 25 years of senior executive medical device experience. As VP and General Manager for Covidien’s Custom Solutions Division, he ran a $250 million-dollar division and had P&L responsibility for markets outside the Hospital and Alternate Site. He has held senior leadership roles in sales, marketing and manufacturing with direct responsibility for developing and directing growth strategy into non-hospital markets including Medical OEM, Animal Health, Rehab and Dental Markets. Tony holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Framingham State University MA. He completed the Babson College MA. Corp Entrepreneurship Program. Tony is also a Licensed U.S. Coast Guard Master Captain.
Brian T. Dougan, Esquire, is a founding partner of Cifra, Gibson & Dougan, LLP, a northeast regional law firm. He practices corporate/transactional law and civil litigation and has worked in matters involving fortune 500 companies including breach of contract, premises liability, employment law, and corporate structure. Mr. Dougan is an accomplished trial attorney with significant trial verdicts to his credit. He has written and presented on legal topics related to insurance defense, civil procedure, and corporate structure. Mr. Dougan is a member of the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Bar Associations and the Trial Lawyers Association of America. He earned his J.D. from University of Dayton (OH) and his B.S. from University of Florida and is admitted to practice law in the State and Federal Courts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Dr. LeRoy Jones is currently in private practice with Urology San Antonio in San Antonio Texas. He opened the Center for Men’s Health and Wellness, a division of Urology San Antonio. He is also a Clinical Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Previous academic appointments include The University of New Mexico Health Science Center and at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Jones received his medical education at Washington University St. Louis. Surgical and Urological training was at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston respectively.
Dr. Jones is considered an authority in the field of sexual medicine, having performed over 3000 prosthetic surgeries. He has numerous publications in the field of sexual medicine. Dr. Jones is internationally recognized and has taught surgery in over 26 countries throughout the world. He is the past president of The Society of Urologic Prosthetic Surgeons and is an active member of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America.
Prior to being a Board Member of Signati Medical, Warren joined AngioDynamics as the Senior Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs. Before joining AngioDynamics, Warren was a quality and regulatory consultant to clients in FDA-regulated industries, specializing in execution and management of quality systems implementation, remediation and product approvals. Previously, Warren served as the Executive Vice President of Global Clinical, Quality Affairs a Regulatory Affairs at Haemonetics Corporation, Vice President of Quality/Regulatory/Clinical/Technical Services at St. Jude Medical’s Atrial Fibrillation Division, and Corporate Vice President of Quality/Compliance at Tyco Healthcare/Covidien (Medtronic). Warren earned a Bachelor and Master of Science in Nursing from Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences.
John has been in the medical/surgical arena for more than 25 years as a proven sales leader, starting as a surgical sales representative and working up to executive management. He has represented companies including Conmed/Linvatec, where he was awarded Representative of the Year, Biomet, Dilon Technologies, Orthovita, and was Director of Sales for Benxyla Health. In 2005 John formed Maloney Medical Sales, a medical/surgical products distributor, and has hired, trained and guided many successful representatives. He has extensive experience in building and managing sales organizations as well as introducing new technologies to the medical community. John is a graduate of Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.
Drew is currently self-employed with investments in various real estate and business entities. Formerly he was the owner and Chief Executive Officer of Allied Frozen Storage, Inc. As CEO, Drew managed all finance and tax related matters for the company and indirectly oversaw the management of all warehousing and non-warehousing operations. Additionally, he was responsible for all facets of Allied’s real estate activities including sales, leasing, acquisitions, site selection, financing, and brokerage. He is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University with a Finance degree in Business Administration. He has over 35 years of experience in a variety of financial, appraisal, and facilities management positions and has held a Series 7 Brokerage license, NYS Certified General Appraiser license, MAI real estate appraisal designation and RPA property management designation.
Dr. Pannell is the inventor of the Signati Medical noninvasive vasectomy procedure. He is currently the Surgical Clerkship Director of The Medical College of Georgia Southwest Clinical Campus. He also serves as the Chairman of the Crisp Regional Hospital Authority and The Crisp County Board of Health. Although his career has been primarily devoted to caring for major trauma patients and managing general and vascular surgical problems, he never forgot the young mother who died while he was a medical student. Following a complicated pregnancy, she was undergoing a procedure to ligate the fallopian tubes and had an anesthetic complication. Dr. Pannell became a strong advocate for vasectomies in family planning and has worked diligently to promote the acceptance of male sterilization procedures which are less complicated and dangerous than female surgery.