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
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
Chief Strategy Officer, Brado
Board of Directors

Bobby Azamian
CEO, Tarsus Pharmaceuticals

Kelly Barba
Associate Director of Business Development, 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

Tim Brandt
Managing Partner, Orange County Office, Deloitte

Janelle Brunette
Chief Administration Officer, Octane

John Casalaspi
Sr. Business Development Executive, AVT Technologies / Tech Data

Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS
Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer, CHOC

Hazem Chehabi, MD
Radiology, Newport Diagnostic Center

Sean Crafts
Chief Growth Officer & Co- Founder, Mavenlink

Martha Daniel
Founder, President & CEO, IMRI

Pete Deutschman
CEO, The Buddy Group

Linda DiMario
Executive Vice President, Greater Irvine Chamber

Shawn Dougherty
Founder & CEO, Exoio

Randy Fisher
Strategy Marketing Manager – Capital Innovation, Insperity

Daniel Flynn
Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Development, Western Digital

Rick Gallagher
Chief Investment Officer and Director of Global Strategy and Development, Experian

Russ Garcia
CEO, Menlo Micro

Marinela Gombosev
President & CEO, Evoke Neuroscience

Fauad Hasan
CEO, Ornvoi

Reza Jahangiri
Founder & CEO, America Advisors Group

Kim Kovacs
Managing Director, Arroyo Ventures

Jason Lantgen
Executive Vice President, JLL

Sabing Lee
Partner, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear

Steven Litchfield
CFO, MaxLinear

Andrew Lyon
Founding Dean of the Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University

Joe Manna
CTO, Experian Consumer Solutions

Goran Matijasevic
Executive Director, Chief Executive Roundtable, UC Irvine

Thomas Mitro
President & COO, Aerie Pharmaceuticals

David Perry
Retired, Former Administrative Partner, K&L Gates, LLC

Tom Piechota
Vice President for Research, Chapman University

Stacey Pugh
Vice President and General Manager, Neurovascular & CSF, Medtronic

Aidan A. Raney, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Former Medical Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hoag Hospital

Ehsan Sadri
Founder and CEO, Visionary Eye Institute

Neil Sahota
IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) Artificial Intelligence (AI) subject matter expert, and Lecturer at UC Irvine

Dean Stoecker
Chairman & CEO, Alteryx

Carrie Strom
SVP, AbbVie, and President, Global Allergan Aesthetics at AbbVie

Katie Szyman
Corporate Vice President, Critical Care & Vascular, Edwards Lifesciences

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
Retired Managing Partner, Ernst & Young

Jim Corbett
CEO, CathWorks, Ltd.

Peter Craig
Former CEO, OC Tech Alliance

Reginald Gilyard
Dean, The George L. Argyros School, Chapman University

Mike Gottfredson
Partner, 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
President & CEO, Western Digital

James McCluney
Former CEO, Emulex Corp.

Dave Meltzer
CEO, Sports 1 Marketing

Tom Moebus
Former Vice Chancellor, UC Irvine

Juli Stone Moran
Managing Director, San Diego Office, Deloitte Consulting, LLP

Michael Mussallem
Chairman & CEO, Edwards Lifesciences

David Pyott
Former CEO, Allergan

Robert Rosenbluth
Chairman & Founder, Inceptus Medical

Marc Samuels
President & CEO, Advi

Paul Symczak
Retired, VP Entrepreneurship, Octane

Earl Slee
VP of Technology, Strategy & Business Dev.
Medtronic (Retired)

Daniele Struppa
President, Chapman University

Gerard Von Hoffman
Partner, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear

Brian Ward
Independent
Medical Advisory Chairs

Gregory A. Buford, MD, FACS
Beauty by Buford

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
Ava MD

Elizabeth Yeu, MD
Partner, Virginia Eye Consultants

Steven G. Yoelin, MD

Kamakshi R. Zeidler, MD
Founder & Managing Partner, Aesthetx
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