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BioIonix Management Team and Board of Directors
Management Team
The BioIonix management team is composed of seasoned business executives focused on the bottom line. They are supported by a highly qualified team members, all of whom are motivated by an equity opportunity in the company.
James A. Tretheway - President and CEO
Jim Tretheway is a seasoned business executive with a strong background in early-stage, high-technology businesses. He is a co-founder of BioIonix, Inc. and has served as its president and CEO since its inception.
As general manager for the medical device manufacturer
Orascoptic Research, Inc., he grew the company from a negative net worth
to high sales growth and profitability, leading to a sale to a private
investment group. Mr. Tretheway’s international business experience
includes managing a turnaround situation in
Mr. Tretheway has extensive experience evaluating, patenting and licensing early stage technologies for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), where he managed its medical device and electrical engineering portfolio along with other technologies. He has served on the board of directors of other high-tech companies and non-profit medical research foundations.
Mr. Tretheway has an MBA and a degree in mechanical
engineering from the
David T. Wildes – Vice President of Sales
With over twenty-four years in the food processing industry in processing and capital equipment sales roles, Dave Wildes heads BioIonix’s sales program. Immediately prior to joining BioIonix, Mr. Wildes led regional sales programs for JBT Corporation (formerly FMC Foodtech) in the vegetable processing and canning equipment sectors.
Earlier Mr. Wildes was vice president of sales and marketing for Sani-Matic Systems, a leading manufacturer of food and pharmaceutical industry sanitation equipment. He also headed marketing and domestic/international sales for Alkar-RapidPak, Inc., a major supplier of meat and poultry processing ovens, packaging and related equipment.
Mr. Wildes brings a strong understanding of the challenges faced by food processors from his time at Holly Farms Poultry and Perdue Farms. He has a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from Virginia Tech.
Karl Marschke – Engineering Manager
Karl Marschke is the company’s engineering manager. He has an MS in electrical engineering (power electronics) and years of engineering management and extensive electromechanical design experience.
Mr. Marschke was vice president of engineering for Marquip, Inc., an industry leading capital equipment manufacturing company. There he was responsibility for worldwide product design, with an engineering staff of 40 reporting to him. His experience includes managing the German division of that company.
Mr. Marschke background includes engineering positions with Continental Teves AG and extensive manufacturing engineering expertise. His previous entrepreneurial activities include developing a custom manufacturing process and machinery for a food processing company.
Ajit K. Chowdhury, PhD - Senior Development Manager
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Dr. Chowdhury previously worked for RMT, Inc., a global consulting engineering company based in Madison, and Zimpro (now Siemens Water Technologies) on commercial applications. He brings a strong knowledge of chemical process reactions to complement our team’s other engineering skills. His experience with the use of catalysts is being used to further enhance process efficacy and operating efficiencies.
Dr. Chowdhury also heads up the company’s government grant program, which leverages investor funding with government grants to develop new applications for the BioIonix technology.
Board of Directors
The BioIonix board of directors consists of six members, including four outside directors.
James A. Tretheway, BSME, MBA. Co-founder, President and CEO.
James A. Tretheway, BSME, MBA. Co-founder, President and CEO. Please see his management team description earlier in this section.
Kenneth J. Schlager, Ph.D. Co-founder and technology resource.
Dr. Schlager is the primary inventor of the company’s original technology and has over 30 years experience in designing cutting-edge electrical engineering products. He has led the development of high tech products for a number of companies, including an successful startup company that serves the water/wastewater instrumentation market. Dr. Schlager has a PhD in Electrical Engineering, an MS in Industrial Management, and is a registered professional engineer.
T. Rockwell Mackie, Ph.D. Outside director, investor, and business/technology resource.
Dr. Mackie is founder and chairman of the board of Tomotherapy, Inc. Over a period of ten years Tomotherapy has grown from a startup to a rapidly-growing and profitable maker of advanced radiation therapy equipment with over 500 employees. Tomotherapy is now a public company with a valuation in excess of one billion dollars. Prior to Tomotherapy, Dr. Mackie was a founder of a medical software company, Geometrics, that has been sold and is now part of Royal Philips, N.V. Dr. Mackie also is a professor of medical physics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and holds dozens of patents worldwide. His work with electromagnetic fields has many commonalities with the technology BioIonix is commercializing. Dr. Mackie brings strong business and technical expertise to the board. He invested in BioIonix in the most recent funding round.
Ronald L. Bond. Outside director and industry/marketing resource.
Mr. Bond is president and CEO of Marshall Bond Pumps, Inc. This company is a supplier of capital equipment to the water and wastewater industries. He brings extensive industry experience and knowledge of market opportunities, industry contacts and potential customers. Mr. Bond provides strong input on customer needs and process applications, as well as important direction to the company’s laboratory development work and interpretation of results. He offers particular expertise in evaluating competitive technologies and the customer benefits associated with the BioIonix process.
Mark T. Nelson, MBA. Outside director, investor, and industry/marketing resource.
Mr. Nelson's background includes being an owner and senior executive of Nelson-Jameson, Inc. This company is a respected supplier of products used by the food, dairy and beverage processing industries. Mr. Nelson brings extensive business experience and knowledge of market needs in a number of the industries that BioIonix expects to serve. BioIonix particularly benefits from his expertise in marketing and sales through distributors and independent representatives. Mr. Nelson invested in BioIonix both at an early stage and in a later stage funding round. He is also a member of a regional investment group whose members are major shareholders of BioIonix.
Jack LaSee. Outside director, investor and manufacturing/purchasing resource.
Mr. LaSee is president and CEO of All-Metal Stamping, Inc. This company uses extensive automation and internally developed rapid changeover tooling to provide component parts to the building industry as well as precision components to the medical research market. The company provides just-in-time delivery of components to window and door manufacturers and a two day lead time from order to shipment on many custom products. He has demonstrated that a Wisconsin firm using creative plant layout and tooling is fully capable of of competing with overseas manufacturers in a highly cost-conscious industry. A serial entrepreneur, Mr. LaSee has invented breakthrough products for other industries, including the sporting goods market, and has started the companies that currently manufacture and market them. Mr. LaSee has invested in all three of BioIonix's investment rounds.