Jim Kasic, President and CEO
Jim Kasic is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the Class II and III medical device industry. Jim is the President and CEO of Sophono, Inc. a manufacturer and distributor of implantable hearing devices. He is also the founder of Boulder BioMed, Inc. a medical product commercialization consulting firm and 7L, LLC, a company that is pioneering a new treatment for morbid obesity. His range of experience is with large, multi-national organizations as well as start-ups with a domestic and international scope including W.L. Gore and Associates, Boston Scientific, Battelle Memorial Institute, and Otologics. Among his accomplishments can be listed the development of several unique implantable medical devices in vascular and otolaryngology fields. Mr. Kasic has been responsible for creating and successfully executing strategies in product and market development having built engineering, research, and sales and marketing organizations. These activities have resulted in over 30 US and International patents and dozens of scientific publications. Mr. Kasic holds a B.S. in Physics, a M.S. in Chemical/Biological Engineering and an MBA.
Professor Ralf Siegert
Ralf Siegert is Professor and Director of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Prosper Hospital, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. He qualified from Hamburg Medical and Dental School, Germany and trained in oral-maxiofacial surgery, plastic surgery and otorhinolaryngology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and the University of Minnesota, USA. Before taking up his present position, he worked in the ENT Department at the University of Lübeck, Germany. His main academic interests are malformation of the auricle, hearing rehabilitation, plastic-reconstructive and esthetic surgery of head and neck.
