Investor Relations

Board of Directors

  • Lishan Aklog, MD

    Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

    Lishan Aklog, M.D. has served as PAVmed’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since he co-founded the company in 2014, based on a portfolio of his and his co-founders’ inventions. He also serves as Executive Chairman of PAVmed’s major subsidiaries—medical diagnostics company, Lucid Diagnostics Inc., and digital health company, Veris Health Inc. Dr. Aklog has been active in the life sciences for several decades, including as an executive, entrepreneur, public company director, technological innovator, corporate advisor, and, previously, as an innovator in cardiac surgery at leading academic medical centers, including Harvard Medical School and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is a medical technology industry leader who serves on the Board of Directors of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the world’s leading medical technology trade association, and was recognized as one the Top Healthcare Technology CEOs of 2021 by Healthcare Technology Report.

    Dr. Aklog began his career as a medical technology entrepreneur and executive in 2007, as co-founding Partner of both Pavilion Holdings Group (PHG), a medical device holding company, and Pavilion Medical Innovations (PMI), its venture-backed medical device incubator. He co-founded Vortex Medical Inc., a PHG portfolio company which developed and commercialized the revolutionary AngioVac® system, and served as its Chairman and Chief Technology Officer from its inception in 2008 until its acquisition by AngioDynamics Inc. (Nasdaq: ANGO) in October 2012. Dr. Aklog is an inventor on 35 issued patents and dozens of patent applications, including the patents of the AngioVac system and the majority of the PAVmed’s products.  His patents have been honored by the Boston Museum of Science and the Boston Patent Lawyers Association

    Dr. Aklog has served in various other capacities across the life sciences industry including on the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee of Contrafect Inc. (Nasdaq: CFRX), a biopharmaceutical company, since June 2020 and on the Board of Directors and as Chair of the Audit Committee of Viveon Health Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: VHAQ), a healthcare special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) from September 2020 to April 2021. Over his career, Dr. Aklog has served as a consultant to numerous medical technology companies including Biomet Inc., now Zimmer Biomet (NYSE: ZBH), AngioDynamics, Edward Lifesciences Corp. (NYSE: EW), On-X Life Technologies Inc., now CryoLife Inc. (NYSE: CRY), and Atricure Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRC). He also previously served on the Scientific Advisory Boards of numerous leading medical device companies, including Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT), St. Jude Medical Inc., now Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT), Guidant Cardiac Surgery, now, Getinge AB, and Cardiovations, then, a division of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), as well as numerous early-stage medical technology companies.

    Prior to transitioning to a full-time career as an entrepreneur and life sciences executive in 2012, Dr. Aklog had a distinguished academic and clinical career as a technological innovator in cardiac surgery.  serving as Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory and an attending cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston from 1999 to 2002; Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Surgical Director of the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, and Associate Director of the Thoracic Surgery Residency Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, from 2006 to 2012; and Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery and Chair of The Cardiovascular Center at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center’s Heart and Lung Institute in Phoenix, Arizona from 2006 to 2012.

    Dr. Aklog received his clinical training in general and cardiothoracic surgery at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, during which he spent two years as the Medtronic Research Fellow at the medical school’s Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory. He was awarded the American Association of Thoracic Surgery Traveling Fellowship pursuant to which he received advanced training in heart valve surgery under renowned cardiac surgeons Sir Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital in London and Professor Alain Carpentier at L’Hopital Broussais in Paris.  Dr. Aklog is a co-author on 38 peer-reviewed articles and 10 book chapters and has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery since 2006. He is a member of numerous professional societies and was elected to the American Association of Thoracic Surgery in 2011. He served on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery from 2006 to 2009 and as President of the 21st Century Cardiothoracic Surgery Society in 2011. During his clinical career he was a perennial honoree as one of America’s Top Doctors in the Castle Connolly Guide from 2002 to 2013.

    Dr. Aklog received his A.B. degree, magna cum laude, in Physics from Harvard University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and his M.D. degree, cum laude with a dissertation in the field of molecular genetics, from Harvard Medical School. He has been active in philanthropic organizations, including currently serving on the International Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch.

  • Michael Glennon

    Vice Chairman

    Michael J. Glennon has served as PAVmed’s Vice Chairman and a Director since October 2014. Mr. Glennon has served as a co-founding Partner of both Pavilion Holdings Group (“PHG”), a medical device holding company, and Pavilion Medical Innovations (“PMI”), a venture-backed medical device incubator, since their respective inceptions in 2007 and 2009 and also serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PMI.

    Mr. Glennon has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Saphena Medical since February 2013 and Cruzar Medsystems since July 2013 and as a director of Kaleidoscope Medical since January 2013. Mr. Glennon was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Vortex Medical from its inception in 2008 until its acquisition in October 2012 by AngioDynamics.

    From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Glennon was Senior Vice President – Sales and Marketing for Accellent Inc., a market-leading provider of outsourced precision manufacturing and engineering services to the medical device industry. Accellent was a portfolio company of DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and was acquired in 2005 by KKR and Bain Capital. From 2004 to 2005, Mr. Glennon was a Cardiac Rhythm Management District Manager at Medtronic. From 1996 to 2004, Mr. Glennon was a Sales Manager at Guidant including seven years at Guidant Cardiac Surgery (now, Maquet Cardiovascular). He was instrumental in the launch and rapid growth of VasoView, the first endoscopic vessel harvesting technology, which became the standard of care in coronary bypass surgery. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Glennon worked for Origin Medsystems which was acquired by Eli Lilly and subsequently spun out as part of Guidant. Previously, Mr. Glennon was with Stryker Endoscopy and Storz Instrument Company.

    Mr. Glennon received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire.

  • Ron Sparks

    Director

    Ronald M. Sparks has served as a Director of PAVmed since January 2015. Mr. Sparks has more than 37 years of executive experience in the medical device industry and has launched over 50 products across a wide spectrum of specialties, including orthopedics, endoscopy, wound management, cardiology, interventional radiology, diagnostic imaging, ophthalmology and otology. From 2007 to October 2013, he served as a Healthcare Industry Executive at Avista Capital Partners, a private equity firm. Mr. Sparks served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Navilyst Medical Inc., which was formed by Avista Capital to acquire the fluid management and venous access business units of Boston Scientific, from its inception in 2008 until its acquisition in May 2012 by AngioDynamics for $372.0 million.

    From 2003 to 2007, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Accellent, a market-leading provider of outsourced precision manufacturing and engineering services to the medical device industry. Accellent was a portfolio company of DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and was acquired in 2005 by KKR and Bain Capital. During his tenure at Accellent, he was recognized as the Credit Suisse/DLJ Merchant Bank 2005 CEO of The Year. From 1986 to 2003, he served in various leadership roles at Smith & Nephew as a member of the Group Executive Committee, President of the Endoscopy Division, President of the Wound Management Division and Vice President of Finance.

    Earlier in his career, he served in various finance roles at Richards Medical, Dyonics and Union Carbide Imaging. Mr. Sparks is a fellow of the American Sports Medicine Institute, a Trustee of the Arthroscopy Association of North America Education Foundation and Honorary Lifetime Member of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopedic Sports Medicine. He has previously served on numerous boards and industry councils, including AdvaMed, the National Subacute Care Association, the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, the American Council of Orthopedic Surgeons and the Society of Interventional Radiology.

    Mr. Sparks received his B.S. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Massachusetts and attended the INSEAD Advanced Management Program at the European Institute of Business Administration in Fontainebleau, France.

  • James Cox, MD

    Director

    Dr. Cox has served as a Director of PAVmed since January 2015. Dr. Cox is a cardiac surgeon, scientific investigator and medical device entrepreneur who pioneered the field of surgical intervention for cardiac arrhythmias, including the eponymous Cox-Maze procedure for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.

    From 1983 to 1997, Dr. Cox served as Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine and Cardiothoracic Surgeon-in-Chief at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. During this tenure, he became the first Evarts A. Graham Professor of Surgery and Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery. He is currently the Evarts A. Graham Professor of Surgery Emeritus. Dr. Cox was also previously Professor and Chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Georgetown University Medical Center and Associate Professor of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center.

    Dr. Cox has had a distinguished and highly productive academic career. He has published 360 peer-reviewed scientific articles and has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including Circulation, the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the Annals of Surgery, and the Journal of Electrophysiology. His laboratory has received continuous NIH funding for its research on the surgical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Dr. Cox has served in leadership positions at numerous professional organizations. He was the 81st President of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery and a director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He has been invited to lecture and perform surgery as a visiting professor at dozens of institutions around the world. He has received numerous awards and honors for his clinical and scientific work, most notably as one of 30 “Pioneers in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery” at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the specialty. Dr. Cox holds 15 issued patents. He has been instrumental in the founding of six medical device companies, including Epicor Medical, which was acquired by St. Jude Medical in 2004 for $200 million, and 3F Therapeutics, which was acquired in 2006 by ATS Medical for $40 million. At such time, he became Medical Director of ATS Medical, which was subsequently acquired by Medtronic in 2010 for $370 million.

    Dr. Cox has served on numerous scientific advisory boards, including Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Atricure and CorMatrix. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Heart Foundation, a not-for-profit organization devoted to improving access to cardiac surgery, which is active in over 75 developing countries around the world. Dr. Cox received his general and cardiothoracic surgical training at Duke University School of Medicine, during which time he spent two years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps.

    Dr. Cox received his M.D. from the University of Tennessee, where he received the Alpha Omega Alpha Distinguished Graduate Award as the outstanding student in his class.

  • Tim Baxter

    Director

    Mr. Baxter spent thirteen years in senior executive roles during a rapid-growth period at Samsung Electronics Co., LTD, the world’s second-largest technology company. He was its first non-Korean-born C-suite executive and rose to become President and Chief Executive Officer, North America – responsible for 6,000 employees and $30 billion in revenue. He was lauded for capitalizing on emerging trends, scaling businesses, building teams, strengthening brand loyalty, deploying emerging technology platforms, and successfully managing unanticipated challenges. Before retiring, he developed the company’s long-term strategic plan for capitalizing on emerging technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, cloud-based computing, and Internet of Things (IOT).

    Prior to Samsung, Mr. Baxter spent ten years in various senior marketing and general manager roles at Sony Corporation, where he helped navigate the analog to digital shift in its crown jewel television business unit and successfully led all Hollywood studio negotiations in the Blu-Ray packaged media format war win. Earlier in his career, he served in senior sales and marketing roles at AT&T Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc., where he was instrumental in launching go-to-market plans, lifecycle management as well as building and globalizing its brand for a $1 billion business unit. 

    Mr. Baxter has served as an industry-wide leader, including as a member of the Executive Board of CTIA, a leading wireless communication industry trade association, and as a Director of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the leading consumer technology association. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Co, Operating Partner at Centre Partners Management LLC, a leading middle market private equity firm, Executive Chair of private-equity backed Tastemakers Holdings LLC, a leading developer and marketer of specialty gaming products, Lead Outside Director of First Orion Corp., a technology software company, Advisory Board member of Almo Distribution, the largest independent U.S. distributor of appliances, consumer electronics, professional audio/video equipment, furniture and housewares, and as an advisor to Raxium Inc., a start-up company developing next generation display technology. Mr. Baxter received his undergraduate degree in Marketing and Finance at Roger Williams University and currently serves as Chairman of its Board of Trustees.

  • Joan Harvey

    Director

    Ms. Harvey has more than two decades of health care experience serving in a variety of leadership roles dedicated to improving whole person health and advocating for patients. She is the president of Care Solutions for Evernorth, Cigna Corporation’s (NYSE: CI) health services business. In this role, she oversees Evernorth’s medical, behavioral, and pharmacy clinical programs to meet the diverse needs of health plans, employers, government organizations—and the people they serve.

    Prior to joining Evernorth, Ms. Harvey served in senior leadership roles at Cigna, Medco Health Solutions Inc., WellPoint 360 Health. a subsidiary of Anthem, Inc., American Imaging Management, and Oxford Health Plans, LLC, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. She is a founding member of the Disease Management Association of America, and author of “Asthma Disease Management in the 21st Century” for the Managed Care Handbook: Best Practices in Medical Management. Ms. Harvey holds a Master of Business Administration from the American Graduate School of International Management and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Bates College.

  • Debbie White

    Director

    Ms. White currently serves on the board of directors of Howden Joinery Group PLC (LSE: HWDN), a UK-headquartered FTSE250 multinational building trade supplier with 10,000 employees and over $2 billion in revenue and as a trustee of Wellbeing of Women, a UK charity which invests in medical research and development of specialist clinicians in women’s health. Ms. White recently served as a strategic consultant to Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd., a UK biotechnology company that develops and commercializes DNA/RNA sequencing technologies, and its emerging Oxford Nanopore Diagnostics business unit.

    Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms. White worked with the UK government to help establish COVID-19 testing facilities across the nation.

    Ms. White previously served as Group CEO of Interserve Group (LSE: IRV), a UK-headquartered multinational group of support services and construction companies with 75,000 employees and over $4 billion in revenue, during a challenging period which required her to implement complex strategic financing and operational programs prior to its restructuring and sale to its creditors.

    Prior to Interserve, Ms. White spent 13 years in senior executive roles at Sodexo SA (EuroNext: SW), a Paris-headquartered multinational diversified services company with 440,000 employees and over $20 billion in revenue, including as Chief Executive Officer of Sodexo UK & Ireland, Chief Financial Officer of Sodexo North America, an $8 billion subsidiary, and finally as Executive Board member and Global Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare and Government, two global businesses with a combined 100,000 employees and over $7 billion in revenue. While at Sodexo, she served on its global body that promoted the development of women across the company and was inducted into the industry’s Women 1st Top 100 Club, which highlights the female role models and leaders who have achieved success at the highest levels.

    Prior to Sodexo, Ms. White served for 3 years as a Director at PWC Consulting, advising a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, on integration, financial performance improvement and post-merger integration, and for 13 years in various financial and strategic roles at AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN), a UK-headquartered multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company. She began her career as a senior tax advisor at Arthur Andersen & Co. Ms. White received her master’s degree in Economics from Cambridge University, Cambridge UK.