Founders and Executive Leadership Team

Owen O’Neill

Chief Medical Officer, Board Member & Interim CEO

  • A Director of Value Based Healthcare, President of Twin Cities Orthopedics, and CEO of 2 Physician Owned Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
  • Practicing hip and knee surgeon at Twin Cities Orthopedics, with over 25 years experience.

Tommy Vollmar

VP/GM of Commercialization & Co-Founder

  • An accomplished healthcare executive formerly at Medtronic’s Spine division US Region with $1.5B in sales; led integration of robotics, navigation, and enabling technologies.
  • An experienced marketeer with 20+ device launches into global markets and 4 PMA IDE clinical studies across spine, orthopedics, and biologics.

Josh Kutzler

Chief Financial Officer

  • Former CFO & COO of HealthEZ, a Minneapolis based medical third-party administrator.
  • Serial entrepreneur with 30 years experience in fast growing companies including successful Merger, Acquisitions, Commercial Growth, and multiple startups.

Tom Cassou

VP, Development Operations

  • Diverse background in product development and manufacturing across numerous Medtech sectors, including electrosurgical devices, patient monitoring systems, disinfection technologies, and infusion platforms.
  • Expertise in lean operations and manufacturing, with a focus on right-sized, fit-for-purpose strategies that align with each product’s unique needs and lifecycle stage.

Doug Kohrs

Board Member & Co-Founder

  • Former CEO of Tornier, AMS, and Responsive Orthopedics.
  • Serial entrepreneur with 40 years experience in medical device including successful IPO, Merger, Acquisitions, Commercial Growth and multiple startups.

John Zehren

Board Member & Co-Founder

  • A medtech executive and serial entrepreneur formerly at Medtronic’s Neurovascular division, taking it from $45M to $1B globally.
  • Expertise in developing channel distribution and commercial scaling, taking 3 product launches to over $100M annually.

Dawn Norman

Senior Director, Quality & Regulatory

  • Over 20 years in the medical device industry working with venture capital backed start-ups and to fortune 100 device manufacturers.
  • Certified ISO 13845 quality system lead auditor.
  • Focus on quality systems, regulatory strategy and submissions, along with clinical study design and study execution, for class I, II, and III products such as neurosurgical, neurovascular, cardiac, cardiac ablation, bone fusion, orthopedic, and imaging technologies.