GARY STACEY
SENIOR EXECUTIVE - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, MANUFACTURING, OPERATIONS
Marshfield, MA 617-***-**** ************@*****.*** Innovative engineer, inventor, and corporate executive with extensive experience in designing cutting edge medical device and consumables. Skilled at identifying market and customer needs and providing solutions that exceed expectations. Expert at managing design, construction, and validation of manufacturing facilities for medical device and high volume complex medical consumables. Skilled at growing profitable businesses from the ground up while maintaining fiscal control. Mentor and problem solver who thrives in a fast- paced market-driven environment. Passionate about changing the world by developing and delivering game-changing technologies. CORE COMPETENCIES
● Accessing Customer Needs
● Discovering Market Opportunities
● Invention
● Managing Product Development
● Design For Manufacturing
● Team Leadership and Development
● Global Product Marketing
● Critical Thinking
● Mentoring
● World-Wide Regulatory Compliance
● Manufacturing Medical Devices
● Manufacturing – Medical Consumables
● Manufacturing – Contract Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CO-FOUNDER, VICE PRESIDENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, Centrifon Corporation 2018 - PRESENT
● Started and grew this business as cash positive from its first year with an EPA approved product in use worldwide.
● Invented and developed game changing technology that provides rapid isolation of contaminants in food and water.
● Improved accuracy, reduced time, and beat the costs of all similar techniques with previously unattainable sensitivity.
● Worked to eliminate mass recalls of food and related injuries, death, and multi-million $ losses in the food industry. CONSULTANT
• Abiomed Corporation 2019 – Present
SR. VICE PRESIDENT, WORLDWIDE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, Haemonetics 1991 - 2018
• Grew a startup to a successful publicly traded company.
● Architected products that touch thousands of patients and donors each day with extreme safety and world-class efficiency.
● Oversaw design, production, and marketing of medical instrumentation and high-volume medical disposables.
● Founded and managed large R&D organizations in US, Europe, and Asia.
● 30+ US and International patents.
● Managed the design, construction, and validation of domestic and International large-scale production facilities
● Managed major outsourcing alliances for manufacturing of key equipment and disposable assemblies.
● Drafted and submitted regulatory filings which transformed blood collection and transfusion industry.
● Functioned as a corporate officer and expert representative/witness in worldwide patent and business litigation.
● Created and facilitated presentations to the investment community.
● Co-invented a series of industry-shaping products for the collection, processing, transfusion, and testing of blood.
● Released a worldwide technology to automatically collect, clean, and transfuse shed blood back to patients.
● Eliminated transfusion reactions and disease transmission and provided best possible blood for patient.
● Achieved a display at the Smithsonian Museum regarded as a revolutionary medical advancement.
● Adapted technology for use by U.S. military and NATO from front lines to fixed military facilities.
● Expert in military contracts and logistics. Founded the division that supports this business.
● Developed first automated apheresis blood system which drastically increases efficiency of donor blood collection.
● Held positions of VP, Technology & Product Dev., VP, Business & Technology Dev., and VP, Division Management.
● Responsible for successful strategic acquisitions to broaden the product offering and provide substantial business growth.
● Managed all aspects of acquisitions from identification and negotiation through due diligence and purchase agreements.
● Owned Full profit and loss (P&L) responsibility for 4 major divisions.
• Military & Government Operations Division
• Life Support Division
• Red Blood Cell Apheresis Division
• Canada & Latin America Sales Division
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT CONSULTANT
● Expert consultant to multiple Angel Investment and Private Equity Investment Groups CO-FOUNDER, TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS ADVISOR, Kairos Partners
• Healthcare investment partnership with concentration on midcap medical device companies. CO-FOUNDER, Belmont Instrument Corporation
• Worldwide leader in fluid management and high-speed infusion systems.
• Co-Inventor of RIS (Rapid Infusion System) technology. Collaborated with physicians at Pittsburgh Presbyterian to design technology that is capable of heating blood products from cold to body temperature and automatically infusing at up to 1.5 liters per minute. Technology now standard of care in trauma, transplants, and high blood loss surgeries. Specialized products created for use in combat operations.
EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, Northeastern University PRODUCT EXAMPLES