Our Board & Advisors
Octane’s Board and Advisors range from partners to industry experts throughout Southern California’s technology and medical technology community. These individuals are at the forefront of Octane’s mission and are Octane brand ambassadors to help us Build the SoCal of Tomorrow.
Executive Committee
Board of Directors
Senior Advisors
Medical Advisory Chairs
Executive Committee
Bill Carpou
CEO, Octane
Jag Dosanjh
Senior Vice President, Medical Therapeutics (Eye Care & Botox Therapeutics), Allergan, an AbbVie Company
Bruce Feuchter
Shareholder, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth
Emile Haddad
Chairman & CEO, FivePoint
Bruce Hallett
Managing Director, Miramar Venture Partners
Bob Jacobson
West Region Consulting and Private Equity Leader, RSM
Jennifer Leuer
Board Member, BigRentz & Former CEO, CyberScout
James Mazzo
Executive Chairman, Neurotech, Advisor, ZEISS
Jim Peterson
Founder, Peterson Capital Group
Brett Wall
President, Brain Therapy, Medtronic
Scott Whitcup
Founder & CEO, Akrivista & Whitecap Biosciences
Clay Wilemon
This Stone, Inc.
Board of Directors
Kelly Barba
Director of Client Engagement, K&L Gates
Thomas Berryman
President, Soft Health Technologies
Reynolds Bish
CEO, Kofax Limited
Charles Black
Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Caitlin Blanche
Partner, K&L Gates
Janelle Brunette
Chief Administration Officer, Octane
John Casalaspi
Sr. Business Development Executive, Tech Data
Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS
Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer, CHOC
Hazem Chehabi, MD
Radiology, Newport Diagnostic Center
Daveen Chopra
Corporate Vice-President and General Manager, Surgical Structural Heart, Edwards Lifesciences
Sean Crafts
Chief Growth Officer & Co- Founder, Mavenlink
Martha Daniel
Founder, President & CEO, IMRI
Pete Deutschman
CEO, The Buddy Group
Linda DiMario
Director of Community Engagement, Octane
Shawn Dougherty
Founder & CEO, Exoio
Randy Fisher
Strategy Marketing Manager, Capital Innovation, Insperity
Daniel Flynn
Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development, Western Digital
Rick Gallagher
Chief Investment Officer, Experian
Russ Garcia
CEO, Menlo Micro
Marinela Gombosev
COO, SPARK Neuro
Fauad Hasan
Founder & Director, Appiell.ai
Reza Jahangiri
Founder & CEO, America Advisors Group
Dr. Edward Kim
Physician-in-Chief, City of Hope
Kim Kovacs
CEO, The Arcview Group
Jason Lantgen
Executive Vice President, JLL
Sabing Lee
Partner, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Steven Litchfield
CFO, MaxLinear
L. Andrew Lyon
Founding Dean of the Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University
Joe Manna
EVP, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Experian
Goran Matijasevic
Executive Director, Chief Executive Roundtable, UC Irvine
Thomas Mitro
President & COO, Aerie Pharmaceuticals
Aziz Mottiwala
Chief Commercial Officer, Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
David Perry
Retired, Former Administrative Partner, K&L Gates
Tom Piechota
Vice President for Research, Chapman University
Stacey Pugh
Chief Commercial Officer, Butterfly Network, Inc.
Aidan Raney, MD, FACC
Former Medical Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hoag Hospital
Ehsan Sadri, MD, FACS
Founder & CEO, Visionary Eye Institute
Neil Sahota
IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Subject Matter Expert, Lecturer at UC Irvine
Dean Stoecker
Executive Chairman, Alteryx
Carrie Strom
President, Global Allergan Aesthetics, SVP, AbbVie
George Wall
Partner & Chair of M&A Development, Glaser Weil
Gregory Washington
President, George Mason University
Jeffry Weinhuff
Managing Partner, Visionary Ventures
Ted Wilm
Managing Partner, PwC
Ashlie Woods
Vice President, Goldman Sachs
David Zollinger
Senior Director, Corporate Strategy, Edwards Lifesciences
Senior Advisors
John Belli
Former Managing Partner, Ernst & Young
Jim Corbett
CEO, CathWorks, Ltd.
Peter Craig
Former CEO, OC Tech Alliance
Reginald Gilyard
Former Dean, The George L. Argyros School, Chapman University
Mike Gottfredson
Former Vice Chancellor & Provost, UC Irvine
Raouf Halim
Former CEO, Mindspeed Technologies Inc.
Matthew Jenusaitis
Chief of Staff, UCSD Healthcare System
Jeffrey Kimball
President & CEO, Jeffrey J. Kimball & Associates
Rick Leckey
Partner, Charting Success
Matthew Massengill
Chairman, Western Digital
James McCluney
Former CEO, Emulex Corp.
Dave Meltzer
CEO, Sports 1 Marketing
Tom Moebus
Former Vice Chancellor, UC Irvine
Juli Stone Moran
San Diego Office Marketplace Leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP
Michael Mussallem
Chairman & CEO, Edwards Lifesciences
David Pyott
Former CEO, Allergan, Chairman, Bioniz Therapeutics
Robert Rosenbluth
Chairman & Founder, Inceptus Medical
Marc Samuels
President & CEO, ADVI
Paul Symczak
Former VP of Entrepreneurship, Octane
Earl Slee
Former VP of Technology, Strategy & Business Development, Medtronic
Daniele Struppa
President, Chapman University
Gerard Von Hoffman
Partner, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Brian Ward
Independent
Medical Advisory Chairs
Gregory A. Buford, MD, FACS, PCEO
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, Beauty by Buford, Published Author
John Hovanesian, MD, FACS
Private Practice, Harvard Eye Associates, Laguna Hills, CA Clinical Faculty, UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Ehsan Sadri, MD, FACS
Founder & CEO, Visionary Eye Institute
Ava Shamban, MD
Founder & CEO of AVAMD and SKINFIVE, Co-Host of The Gist
Elizabeth Yeu, MD
Partner, Virginia Eye Consultants
Steven G. Yoelin, MD
Kamakshi R. Zeidler, MD
Founder & Managing Partner, Aesthetx