The Product

Irvin Pierskalla

 
Senior Vice President/Chief Technical Officer

 
Mr. Pierskalla joined ExoStat Medical in 2012 and has over 20 years of experience in the medical device industry in a variety of functions: Project Management, Product Development, Research, Compliance and Operations. Mr. Pierskalla’s experience has been focused on consumables and non-invasive sensors including; blood gases, electrolytes, tissue pH, and tissue perfusion. Prior to his experience in the medical device industry, Mr. Pierskalla was an analytical chemist at an independent testing laboratory. In addition, Mr. Pierskalla is an inventor on 6 issued patents pertaining to medical device design and sensor technology. Mr. Pierskalla holds a B.S. in Chemistry from St. Cloud State University.

Jim Hays

President/CEO, Board Member

Mr. Hays has served ExoStat as President/CEO since 2012.  Prior to his ExoStat involvement, Mr. Hays was active as management, investor, and Board positions in a myriad of private startups and early stage businesses in various industries including natural gas gathering/processing, oil and gas drilling, oil field services, commercial banking, commercial insurance, country club acquisitions/operations, high speed sorting technology, restaurant operations, and other medical ventures.  ExoStat is his seventh startup in over 50 years of work.

Mr. Hays was CEO/Chairman of MEGA Natural Gas Co., a company he co-founded when it was sold in 1991.  Due to a non-compete provision in the Sale Agreement for MEGA, Mr. Hays deviated from the business world to play professional golf on the U.S. and European PGA Senior Tours until he retired in 1999.

Mr. Hays has written numerous articles centered on entrepreneurship, business morals/ethics, and business preparation.  He currently lectures advanced business classes at several selected universities.

Mr. Hays has served multiple charities and church organizations including the International Business Leaders Advisory Council with the mission to add business/management skills to seminaries in training at Santa Croce University, a pontifical university in Rome.

Mr. Hays served six years in the Army National Guard and was a scholarship recipient (Baseball) at Oklahoma State University where he received a BS/BA in Economics and Accounting.

Kent Winger

 
Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer, Board Member

 
Mr. Winger has over 28 years of extensive medical device development and manufacturing experience. Mr. Winger’s career experience includes management positions within operations, manufacturing and quality engineering, production management, product and process development, purchasing, material control, and facilities management. Mr. Winger joined ExoStat Medical in 2009, yet he has extensive prior experience with the MicroStat system over ten plus years of employment with Vasamed. From 1998–2008, Mr. Winger was in charge of manufacturing at Vasamed, including production of probes and sensors for the predicate MicroTrend product and oversaw contract manufacturing of hardware for the device. He was intimately involved in the development of the predicate hand-held MicroTrend product. Mr. Winger’s prior experience includes Lumen Biomedical, Inc. (2008-2009) where he served as Vice President of Operations, Vasamed Inc. (1998-2008) where he served as Vice President of Operations, Boston Scientific Corp. (1986-1998) where he served as Operations Manager, Engineering and Process Development Manager, and Sr. Engineer, and Plastech Corp. (1984-1986) where he served as Project Manager. During Mr. Winger’s career he has been directly involved with the development and commercial launch of over 35 successful medical products. Mr. Winger holds an A.A.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Normandale College and an M.M.S.E. from University of St. Thomas – St. Paul, MN.

Michael R. Pinsky, MD

 
Senior Medical Advisor

Dr. Michael Pinsky is a Professor of Critical Care Medicine (primary), Bioengineering, Cardiovascular Diseases, Clinical & Translational Science, and Anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Docteur Honoris Casusa at the Universite Rene Descartes Paris V, School of Medicine in Paris, France. Dr. Pinsky is currently an Attending Physician Emeritus at Presbyterian and Magee Hospitals UPMC as well as a faculty member of the Center for Critical Care Nephrology at Pitt.

Dr. Pinsky received his MD from McGill University in 1974. He completed his post-graduate internal medicine residency training and pulmonary fellowship training at Stanford University, Stanford, California; Senior Medical Residency at Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, Florida; and advanced physiological training at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland.

Currently, Dr. Pinsky serves as the Principal Investigator of two R01 “Using biological time series analysis to identify cardiorespiratory insufficiency” in ICU patients (MLADI) and during emergency air transport (ADMIT), and Co-Principal Investigator of another R01 on “Predicting patient instability noninvasively for nursing care (PPINNC)” and scientific PI on a DoD contract “Trauma Care in A Rucksack” (TRACIR). He is also a Co-I on a related R01 on assessing instability in patients during surgery (MLORD). He has been the Director of the Cardiopulmonary Research Laboratory for the past 39 years. Dr. Pinsky was the program director for an NIH National Research Service Award entitled “Experimental Therapeutics in Critical Illness” until last month, a program he directed for the last 20 years. He was part of the inaugural group to receive Masters of Critical Care Medicine (MCCM) from the SCCM, part of the first North Americans to receive “Honorary membership” in ESICM and is a Fellow of the American Physiological Society and the American College of Chest Physicians.

Dr. Pinsky has edited 27 Medical Textbooks, authored >400 peer-reviewed publications, >250 chapters and supported >450 abstract presentations. Dr. Pinsky is the Editor-in-Chief of MedScape’s Critical Care Medicine section. Dr. Pinsky is on the editorial boards of the Critical Care, Journal of Critical Care, Current Opinion in Critical Care, the International Journal of Critical Care, the Annals of Critical Care, and Intensive Care Medicine. He is an ad hoc reviewer for NHLBI K and R awards annually. He also provides journal referring for numerous publications.

View a list of Dr. Pinsky’s publications here

David C. Gordon

 
Board Member
 
Mr. Gordon has provided investment banking services to the healthcare industry for over 25 years. Mr. Gordon has represented both not-for-profit and investor-owned companies and has extensive experience working with general acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities, specialty hospitals, physician practices, HMO’s and medical office buildings. Mr. Gordon is Co-Founder of Juniper Advisory, LLC in Chicago, IL. Prior to forming Juniper in 2006, Mr. Gordon co-led the healthcare M&A group of Ponder & Co. (2001–2006) and the healthcare services group at U.S. Bancorp/Piper Jaffray (1998–2001). Prior to rejoining Nuveen in 1998, Mr. Gordon was the Managing Director in charge of investment banking healthcare services for ABN AMRO, Inc. North America. While at ABN his group provided financial advisory services and secured private and public equity for healthcare clients. From 1986–1996, Mr. Gordon worked with Nuveen where he specialized in the firm’s healthcare, merger, acquisition, and divestiture practice. From 1979–1986, Mr. Gordon was employed by Ernst & Young in Chicago providing consulting services. His engagement experience, while with Ernst & Young, concentrated on M&A for middle-sized commercial companies and financial institutions. In addition, he was involved in various aspects of strategic and capital planning for large national and multi-national corporations. Mr. Gordon holds a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University (1977) and an M.B.A. from University of Notre Dame (1979).

Hayden R. Fleming

 
Co-Founder and Board Member
 
Mr. Fleming has been active in the development of ExoStat Medical, Inc. since its formation in August, 2009. From 1996~2011, Mr. Fleming was Owner and President of the brokerage firm, Fleming Securities, Inc. During that time, Mr. Fleming was also Manager of two private investment funds, Circle F Ventures, LLC and Circle F Ventures II, LLC, both of which made investments in companies in various industries and of various sizes. Mr. Fleming is a founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Resuscitation International, LLC which Is an early stage resuscitation company specializing in mechanical CPR. Mr. Fleming also serves on the board of Data Transfer of Nevada, LLC. Prior to 1996, Mr. Fleming was active in structuring and selling private placements and new public issues for various start-up and early stage companies. Mr. Fleming attended St. Cloud State University but his studies were interrupted due to military service in Vietnam.

Chanda J. Romain

 
Vice President/Chief Financial Officer
 
Mrs. Romain was one of the original team members of ExoStat Medical, Inc. in 2008. She has over 20 years of accounting experience, including 10+ years of medical research and manufacturing accounting and 2 years of public accounting. Mrs. Romain’s prior experience includes Virtual Radiological, Inc. (2012-2013) where she served as Manager of Accounting Operations, Sunshine Heart, Inc. (2011-2012) where she served as Controller, and Vasamed, Inc. (2007-2011) where she served as Controller. Mrs. Romain holds a B.A. in Accounting from Mount Marty College.