BioRestorative Therapies, Inc. Announces Board Appointments
October 26, 2021 at 08:00 am
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BioRestorative Therapies, Inc. announced the nomination of two new independent members to its Board of Directors with industry and medical device experience: Patrick F. Williams, Chief Financial Officer at STAAR Surgical, and David Rosa, President and Chief Executive Officer at NeuroOne. Their election to the Board will take effect in the event the Company?s pending registration statement becomes effective. Patrick F. Williams has more than 20 years of experience across medical device, consumer product goods and technology sectors. Appointed as Chief Financial Officer of STAAR Surgical Company in July 2020, Mr. Williams is responsible for optimizing the financial performance of STAAR and ensuring the scalability of various functions to support high growth expansion. From 2016 to 2019, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Sientra, Inc. before transitioning to General Manager for its miraDry? business unit. From 2012 to 2016, Mr. Williams served as Chief Financial Officer of ZELTIQ Aesthetics, Inc., a publicly-traded medical device company that was acquired by Allergan. Previously, he served as Vice President in finance, strategy and investor relations roles from 2007 to 2012 at NuVasive, Inc., a San-Diego based medical device company servicing the spine sector. He has also held finance roles with Callaway Golf and Kyocera Wireless. Mr. Williams received an MBA in Finance and Management from San Diego State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. David Rosa has served as the Chief Executive Officer, President and a director of NeuroOne Medical Technologies Corporation, or NeuroOne, since July 2017 and served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of NeuroOne, Inc., formerly its wholly-owned subsidiary, from October 2016 until December 2019, when NeuroOne, Inc. merged with and into NeuroOne. NeuroOne is committed to providing minimally invasive and hi-definition solutions for EEG recording, brain stimulation and ablation solutions for patients suffering from epilepsy, Parkinson?s disease, dystonia, essential tremors, chronic pain due to failed back surgeries and other related neurological disorders that may improve patient outcomes and reduce procedural costs. From November 2009 to November 2015, Mr. Rosa served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Sunshine Heart, Inc., n/k/a Nuwellis, Inc. From 2008 to November 2009, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Milksmart, Inc., a company that specializes in medical devices for animals. From 2004 to 2008, Mr. Rosa served as the Vice President of Global Marketing for Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology at St. Jude Medical, Inc. He serves as a director on the board of directors of Biotricity Inc. and is Chairman of the Board at Neuro Event Labs, a privately held AI-based diagnostics company in Finland.
BioRestorative Therapies, Inc. is engaged in developing therapeutic products and medical therapies using cell and tissue protocols, primarily involving adult stem cells. The Company has two core programs that relate to the treatment of disc/spine disease and metabolic disorders. Its lead cell therapy candidate, BRTX-100, is a product formulated from autologous (or a person's own) cultured mesenchymal stem cells collected from the patient's bone marrow. It has commenced a Phase II clinical trial using BRTX-100 to treat chronic lower back pain arising from degenerative disc disease. The Company is engaged in developing a cell-based therapy candidate, ThermoStem Program, which targets obesity and metabolic disorders using brown adipose (fat) derived stem cells to generate brown adipose tissue (BAT). The Company has also licensed an investigational curved needle device designed to deliver cells and/or other therapeutic products or material to the spine and discs.