Management Team

Ishmael Bentley - Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Jeremy Mercuri - Founder, Chief Scientific Officer

Matt Pursley - Founder, Chief Operations Officer

Jens Johnson - President of Engineering

Richard DiMonda - Founder, Chief Regulatory Officer

Jerry Chang - Founder, Board Member

Mr. Pursley, BSME has spent over 35 years developing and commercializing Medical Devices. Mr. Pursley has founded or cofounded multiple companies that have taken devices from Concept to Commercialization. In these endeavors, Mr. Pursley has worked with leading Physicians to address unmet clinical needs that have resulted in several patented and commercialized devices. Mr. Pursley has conducted product development, established manufacturing facilities, conducted bench and preclinical trials and developed intellectual property strategy. Mr. Pursley holds over 30 Medical Device and/or Process Patents.

Jeremy Mercuri, PhD has spent the last 20 years of his industry and academic career developing biomimetic and tissue-based biomaterials for orthopaedic and general surgery applications. Jeremy started his career in research and development at Medtronic Spine & Biologics and Stryker Orthobiologics. He also spent 12 years running an academic research lab in the Department of Bioengineering at Clemson University (The Laboratory of Orthopedic Tissue Regeneration & Orthobiologics). His lab’s research focused on developing biomimetic, extracellular matrix-derived biomaterials for intervertebral disc, osteochondral and point-of-care approaches to rotator cuff repair. Jeremy has extensive experience leading product development initiatives as well as designing and managing pre-clinical studies and clinical trials. Jeremy has 45+ senior / first author peer-reviewed publications, 85+ peer-reviewed scientific abstracts, 20+ invited seminars a well as multiple issued patents.

Trained in both electrical and biomedical engineering, and an MBA, Richard brings over 40 years of medical device commercialization experience from a variety of public and private medical companies. He has executive management as well as hands-on experience with regulatory, clinical research, reimbursement, product management and marketing. He has helped commercialized products across 14 different fields of medicine, managed FDA Panel Meetings for Class 3 products, and is Founder of two startups.

Ishmael has worked in the medical device industry for 25 years, dating back to his time in graduate school. Upon completion of graduate school, Ishmael started his career at Sulzer Spine-Tech, working there for 4 years. Ultimately, in 2004, he moved into the start-up world, where he has been ever since, serving in various roles, including engineer, project manager, and executive management. Ishmael holds an A.S. in mathematics, a B.S. in both physics and mechanical engineering, as well as an M.Sc. in Bioengineering. He is the inventor on over 25 patents and is a contributing author on multiple peer-reviewed publications.