Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Emory has over 32 years of experience in the healthcare, consumer electronics and data communications industries. He joined Intuity Medical as the President and Chief Executive Officer in September, 2008. Prior to Intuity Medical, Emory served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Adeza Biomedical, a public company focusing on women's reproductive healthcare. At Adeza, Emory lead the company to a successful IPO in 2004 and eventual acquisition by Cytyc in 2007. Before Adeza, Emory served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Indesys, a data communications company, which he co-founded in 1984. Previously, he held the position of Director of Finance for Atari, in the Consumer Electronics Division.
John HowardVice President of Research & Development
John has over 20 years of progressive design and leadership experience in product development. Prior to joining Intuity Medical, John held roles as Vice President of Device Manufacturing and Principal Fellow of Delivery Systems at Nektar, where he helped develop a proprietary drug delivery system for Pfizer's Exubera™ inhaled insulin. Before Nektar, John led multiple Product Design teams in the development of desktop and notebook computers at Apple. Since 1989, John has been a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Design Division at Stanford University.
Nelson O. LamVice President of Regulatory Affairs & Quality Assurance
Nelson has over 23 years of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs experience in the defense, medical and in-vitro diagnostic device industries. He last served as Vice President of Operations and R&D at CoolSystems, maker of innovative cooling/compression medical devices. Previous to CoolSystems, Nelson held various RA/QA executive and leadership positions with a number of public and private stage medical companies which included Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC), TheraSense, Ethicon J&J, W.L. Gore and Stryker Corporation. Most notably, at TheraSense, Nelson served a key role as the VP of RA/QA/CA in support of the company’s successful launch of it’s FreeStyle™ glucose monitoring product line.
Kelley LipmanVice President of Marketing
Kelley has over 16 years of experience in healthcare marketing and sales, with a heavy concentration in medical devices and diabetes. She has a proven track record in developing strategic market entry plans for companies with new and emerging technologies. She was Global Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Metrika and helped to set the stage for the acquisition of Metrika by Bayer Diabetes Care. At TheraSense, she served as the National Sales Director and was instrumental in the commercial success of the FreeStyle™ product line, leading to a successful IPO and acquisition by Abbott.
Combined with an experienced Board of Directors
- Emory V. Anderson,III, President and CEO, Intuity Medical
- Glen Bradley, former CEO of CIBA Vision
- Stephen Campe, Managing Director, Investor Growth Capital
- Anders D. Hove, M.D., Partner, Venrock
- Pete McNerney, General Partner, Thomas, McNerney & Partners
- Rebecca Robertson, General Partner, Versant Ventures
- Casey Tansey, Chairman of the Board, Intuity Medical and General Partner, US Venture Partners
- Richard Thompson, President and CEO of Luminous Medical, Past President of LifeScan and former Board Member of TheraSense
