Management Team

Robert (Bob) Kay brings over 40 years of executive management experience in both early-stage and growth companies doing business domestically and internationally, along with having served on numerous private and public company boards. From 2006 to 2012, Bob served as COO and CFO of Drilling Info, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based online data and analytics software company serving the global oil and gas exploration and related financial industries, until early 2012, when the company was sold to a major private equity group. Since 2012, Bob has spent his time investing in private growth companies and serving on related Boards of Directors, including nContact Surgical, Inc., Myocardial Solutions, Inc., and other early-stage medical device, pharmaceutical, and online data companies. Bob also serves on the board of MSC Income Fund, Inc., a side-by-side Private Equity and Mezzanine Debt investor to Main Street Capital, Inc. (NYSE), Houston, Texas, and is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business.

With over 18 years of global experience leading and transforming teams across Biotech, Pharma and Medical Devices, Rafael Rivero, MD leads the initiative in expanding MyoStrain clinical utilization and advocacy within the medical community. Dr. Rivero received his MD at the Superior School of Medicine in Cuba in 1992 and his professional experience includes Monogram Biosciences, Gilead Sciences, Abbott Laboratories, Stereotaxis and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics.

Clete has over 35 years of experience in healthcare operational and business development leadership roles. Clete previously served as President of Outpatient Imaging and Joint Ventures at US Radiology, a WCAS privately-equity backed platform, President of Touchstone Medical Imaging, a national outpatient imaging operator acquired by US Radiology, Chief Development Officer of RadNet, and a Healthcare Partner and National Industry Director for KPMG. He most recently was the CEO of Pacesetter Health. Clete is a Board Member of Medisend College of Biomedical Engineering which is a premier educational center for training US veterans in biomedical engineering technology as well as The Warren Center, which advocates, serves, and empowers children and their families impacted by development delays and disabilities. Clete graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with high honors with a BBA in Accounting.

Richard Roberts brings over 20 years of sales and marketing leadership experience in the medical and healthcare industry. Richard is a forward-looking, cutting edge, market creating leader with a track record of building, scaling, and steering commercial teams and companies to peak performance. Richard’s dynamic sales and commercial executive leadership background has been proven over these past 20+ years at Forest Pharmaceuticals, Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., CHF Solutions and, currently, as President and Chief Operating Officer at Myocardial Solutions, Inc. The breadth of Richard’s experience spans initiating commercial operations, raising funds in multiple series rounds, sales, marketing, and product launch healthcare start-ups while adding millions of dollars in shareholder value. Richard is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University - Rusche College of Business.

Nael Osman founded Myocardial Solutions after developing MyoStrain’s technology as a professor at Johns Hopkins University. As a known leader in cardiac MRI technology, Nael has pushed the frontiers of measuring regional function of the heart using MRI. Nael is an accomplished researcher and academician with a track record of academic publications (60+ scientific papers, 100+ conference presentations and abstracts), research contribution, teaching and life science innovation.

Jim Whayne joined Myocardial Solutions to direct clinical initiatives. He has 25 years of medical device and entrepreneurial experience, having cofounded 3 device companies – nContact, Cayenne Medical and Converge Medical. Mr. Whayne holds a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor Degree in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from Duke University. He is also an inventor on over 200 issued US patents.

Sidney Fleischman has 25 years of experience in bringing medical devices from concept to commercialization. He has cofounded several successful medical device companies, including nContact, Cayenne Medical, and Converge Medical. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and is an inventor of more than 100 issued patents in the medical device area.