2024 Speakers
Leaders, executives and trailblazers speaking at Octane’s Medical Innovation Forum.
2024 Speakers
Aileen J Anderson, PhD
Director, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, UC Irvine
Kamran Ansari
CEO, FluxWear
Haleh Armian, MSc.
Director of Biomedical Innovation Ventures, Hoag Hospital
Andy Bank
Co-Founder & CEO, Myochron
Len Brandt
CEO, D2M Venture Development
Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD, FACR
Vice President,
Clinical Research Administration,
CATALiST (Center for Accelerating Technology and Life Sciences Translation),
Addiction Services,
Hoag Hospital
Janelle Brunette
COO, Octane
Greg Buchert, MD
CEO, Makani Science
Clint Carnell
Founder & Managing Partner, Greyspace
CEO, Inbrace
Founder, OrangeTwist
Bill Carpou
CEO, Octane
Uma Chandrashekhar
Global Product Security Officer, Alcon
Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS
Chief Intelligence and Innovations Officer, CHOC
Shawn Collins
Partner, Stradling
Jennifer Cook
Chief Business Officer, Autonomix
Charles J. De Mesa, DO
Chief of Interventional Pain, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Hoag Spine Institute;
Director of the Chronic Pain & Neuropathy Program, Hoag Pickup Family Neuroscience Institute
Mark Dickinson
Worldwide President Neurovascular, Johnson & Johnson Medtech
Jag Dosanjh
Senior Vice President, Abbvie;
President, Neuroscience and Eye Care, AbbVie.
Christopher Duma, MD, FACS
President and Founder, Regeneration Biomedical, Inc.;
Medical Director, Brain Tumor Program, and Chief of Service, Parkinson’s and Movement Disorder Programs, Hoag Hospital
Ben Esque
Founder & CEO, Corstasis
Doug Faunce, PhD
Executive Director, Head of Search and Evaluation, Eye Care, AbbVie
Randy Fisher
Director, Private Capital Development, Insperity
Sima Ghafari
CEO, Allera Medical
Eric Gildenhuys
President and CEO, Rezultant Inc.
Natalie Harney
Certified Business Performance Advisor
William Harrity, MD
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Automedicus
Fauad Hasan
Director, Appell.ai
Mark Herbet
VP of Biopharma Business Development, Varda Space Industries
Christine Heyninck-Jantz
Vice President R&D, Transcatheter Heart Valves, Edwards Lifesciences
Mike Hill
Managing Director, Octane Capital Markets
Jean-Pierre Hubschman, MD
Co-Founder & CEO, Horizon Surgical Systems
Tom Jackson
Director of Product Security – HW and Embedded Security, Alcon
Jennifer Johnston, MD, CCFP
CEO, Elle MD
Scott Joslyn
Chief Innovation Officer, UCI Health
David Kaiser
Founder & CEO, MemoryCare AI
Nir Katchinskiy, PhD
CEO & Co-Founder, Pulse Medica
Abubaker Khalifa
Co-founder & COO, Moonrise Medical
Amreesh Khanna, DDS, BMed.Sc., GPR Cert., FICOI
CEO & Founder, Oraq.ai
Sam King, FHFMA, FHIMSS, EHRC
Past President, HFMA and HIMSS SoCal; Faculty, USC Price School of Public Policy.
Mohammad E. Kondri, MPH, MBA
Sr. International Business Development Officer, Trade Commissioner, Life Sciences, Consulate General of Canada
Jason Lee
Partner, K&L Gates
Percy Lee, MD, FASTRO
Medical Director, Orange County and Coastal Regions Radiation Oncology
Vishwanath Lingappa
CEO, CTO, and Board Member, Prosetta Biosciences
Adam Lohr, CPA
Partner and Western Region Life Sciences Leader, RSM
Josh Makower, MD
The Yock Family Professor, Professor of Medicine and of Bioengineering, Stanford University Schools of Medicine and Engineering;
The Byers Family Director and Co-Founder, Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign;
Chairman & Founder, ExploraMed Development, LLC
Ken Mariash
CEO, Sinaptica Therapeutics
Naama Mashiach
CEO & Co-Founder, Buzzy Platform
Yosuke Matsubara, PhD, PMP
Senior Manager of Business Development & License Department, Teijin Pharma Ltd.
Jim Mazzo
Executive Chairman, Neurotech;
Co-Founder, Octane
Allan McNichol
CEO, Zuno Medical
Biren Mehta
Vice President, Venture Investments, Johnson & Johnson
Alex C. Minella, M.D.
Medical Director, cGMP facility, Associate Clinical Professor (Hematology/Oncology), University of California, Irvine
Peman Montazemi
Founder & CEO / Co-Inventor, Finally Quiet
Azadeh Nasibi
Vice President, Business Development, Strategy & Region Led Markets, Medtronic
Thomas Nichols
President, Pretika MedTech
Ryan J. O'Connell, MD
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Clinical Informatics, Pathology, UC Irvine
Nick Olson
Sr. Director, Corporate Development, Edwards Lifesciences
Sumit Paliwal
Vice President, Diagnostics & Visualization, Surgical Instrumentation R&D, Alcon
Scott Pantel
CEO, LSI
Chip Parker
President & CEO, LabX Ventures
Rashmi Prakash
CEO, Aruna Revolution
Timothy Pratt, PhD
Executive Director and Global Head Medical Device & Diagnostics Research, ICON
Mark Price
Senior Vice President, Product Performance, InBrace
MK Rhaeja, PhD
MK Raheja Advisory Services
Matthew Sefati
CEO, Cobionix
Anthony Shao
CEO & Co-Founder, Darroch Medical
Arie Shen
Founder, Board Member, CxO, EASTM
Tanya Siddiqi, MD
Medical Director of Lymphoma, City of Hope Orange County
Mark Silverman
Director, Omnichannel Strategy, AbbVie
Carole Spangler Vaughn, PhD, MBA
CEO, Eisana Health
Leigh Steinberg
Chairman of Leigh Steinberg Sports and Entertainment Holdings
Larry Stofko
OCG Executive in Residence, Octane
Sharief Taraman, MD, DABPN, DABPM, FAAP
CEO, Cognoa
Ali Tavallaei, Ph.D
President & Co-Founder, Magellan Medical
Chi Tran
Officer-in-Charge, Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), Los Angeles
John Wiet
Director, Octane’s LaunchPad SBDC
Yu Zhao
Founder & President, Bridging Consulting
Todd Zive
CEO, ZGL Group, Inc.
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