Marc is a biomedical engineer with a 23-year career in medical device R&D. He has led multiple product development programs at both large companies and startups including stents, stent grafts, cerebrovascular coils, synthetic heart valves, and laparoscopic surgical devices, among others.
Marc’s immediate and extended family suffer from IBD, including his father, his son, and himself. He invented Regentys’ core technology and founded the company in an effort to leverage an existing, proven technology to the treatment of IBD. Marc founded Regentys to commercialize ExtraCellular Matrix Hydrogel, a product that creates a favorable environment for the body to grow new tissue in place of diseased or damaged tissue. He has eight US patents, including one for Regentys’ core technology, several publications, and a history of speaking engagements at conferences and universities.
Jon Margalit, a startup entrepreneur, is one of millions who suffers from IBD. Jon set out to discover a convenient, nutritious solution made from real food that would both fill and settle his stomach. Jon is leveraging his expertise in business and sales, along with his success from prior startups to share his discovery with the world. Complete Start was founded in 2017 and is experiencing ongoing growth.
Prior to founding Complete Start, Jon launched and sold a multi-million dollar finance company, invented and patented a sport towel line, and revived a software company.
PJ has held executive management positions for over 20 years in sales, IT and health care with prestigious companies. Following her entrepreneurial spirit, she began her career by founding Computer Resource International, Inc. which sold hardware and software solutions to the federal government.
Her experience with her son, Dane, and his fight with Crohn’s disease convinced her to combine her business skills with her passion to help others. She began the Crohn’s & Colitis Nutrition Foundation to help heal chronic disease using financial technology. The foundation provides matching tax-exempt donations for patients who desire to utilize alternative medical options to fight chronic disease.
Cindy is an innovative and entrepreneurial leader with almost 25 years of business management experience, spanning digital marketing, television production and internet services. Cindy helped raise almost $10 million dollars in venture capital and founded a digital media firm, How2TV.
Inspired by her son Caleb who has Crohn’s disease, Caleb’s Cooking Company creates frozen meals for children based on The Specific Carbohydrate Diet, which has helped millions of people with various forms of inflammatory bowl disease. Their products are all grain, gluten, sugar and preservative-free.
Danny has suffered from GI disorders including Crohn’s disease and IBS since his early teens. He was motivated to create change because of his experience in knowing how painful and disruptive IBD can be. His personal IBD experience and drive, together with his diverse background in architecture, children’s computer game design, management of consumer-oriented software projects, and entrepreneurship made him well-qualified to lead a digital therapeutic company. He is the founder and CEO of metaMe Health, a company that develops and delivers digital therapeutics to manage and treat IBD symptoms.
Steve has led teams delivering numerous best in class systems in both medical devices and industrial automation. Some examples are nuclear basis weight, x-ray and infrared absorption sensors, and a unique miniature therapeutic x-ray radiation source. He worked as a director at Measurex- Honeywell for 15 years and in 2003 entered the medical device field.
Steve became CEO of G-Tech Medical in November 2011. This work combines his experience leading high performance R&D teams and expertise in creating sophisticated measurement systems. G-Tech Medical is developing an “EKG for the gut,” a wireless, wearable patch-based system that reads electrical signals from the digestive tract. His enduring passion for the work comes from his daughter Lindsay, who was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at age 13.
Brianna Wolin is a passionate entrepreneur, biomedical engineer and food blogger. Find Your Ditto, FYD, began as a student project during her time at the University of Michigan, has earned Brianna several awards at the University as well as recognition by SPARK Ann Arbor, including a fully-funded entrepreneurial bootcamp experience and a commitment to continued guidance. Brianna has lived with Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease the majority of her life. Her food blog, A Different Survival Guide, grew out of her need to cook all of her own low carb, gluten free meals unavailable in campus dining halls. Brianna is the Chief Executive officer of Find Your Ditto, responsible for engagement with universities and healthcare systems, marketing, legal matters, and company finances. Find Your Ditto is the only mobile platform that connects individuals living with the same chronic illness locally for on-demand, in-person peer support to mitigate feelings of loneliness and depression. Users can find their “dittos” and begin to feel like “it’s not just me.”
Shai Rozen is the co-founder & CMO at Suggestic Serial entrepreneur, a marketing guy, and a product builder. At a co-founder at Suggestic, he use artificial intelligence to tackle health and nutrition. He is passionate about putting an end to disease and the inevitability of immortality.Best advice ever received: don’t panic.
Lindsay Jurist-Rosner is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wellthy, Inc. a company dedicated to helping the 66 milllion Americans who are caring for their sick and aged loved ones. Before Wellthy, Lindsay served as the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Simulmedia. Prior to Simulmedia, Lindsay ran Marketing Research at Machinima; worked in product and strategic marketing at Microsoft; worked in marketing at LA-based startup, Spot Runner; and ran the west coast advertising and marketing relationships for the magazine, The Atlantic. Lindsay has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics‐Operations Research from Columbia University. Lindsay lives on the Upper West Side in New York City.
In late 2015, during his freshman year of college, Grady was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the age of 18. Throughout the past few years, he has experienced the emotional and physical impacts of IBD. His experiences with various medications, medical appointments, and complications have made him highly aware of the challenges of chronic illness. As a result, Grady is passionate about advocating for patients and healthcare rights. Today, Grady is involved with the IBD community as a writer for inflammatoryboweldisease.net. He has written and spoken on a number of issues from body image to the mental impacts of illness. He has worked with organizations such as Improve Care Now’s Patient Advisory Council on patient resources. In addition, he is an alumnus of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation’s National Council of College Leaders. In that role, he served as chair of the communications workgroup. He is a current Crohn’s and Colitis Young Adults Network fellow. Along with other young leaders, he works to raise awareness of IBD through advocacy, outreach, and creativity. He is passionate about advocating for the chronic illness community and motivated to create new resources for patients. Grady is excited to continue developing his advocacy through his work with Lyfebulb.