Management Team

The VeraLight Management Team

David VanAvermaete, CEO

22 years of experience in the diabetes field with specific expertise in home blood glucose monitoring and medical diagnostics. He is a former US president of the LifeScan division of Johnson & Johnson, who during his 13 year tenure grew annual sales from under $100 million to over $1.0 billion and the number one position in the market. Prior to LifeScan, David was the Director of Marketing for home blood glucose monitoring products at Roche Diagnostics.

M. Ries Robinson, MD, COO

Initiated research into non-invasive blood chemistry monitoring in collaboration with University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Sandia Laboratories in 1988. He has co-authored several US patents and has authored several peer-reviewed technical articles, received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the NM Inventor of the Year Program in 1992, and was named the New Mexico Inventor of the Year in 1994. Dr. Robinson, currently the COO of VeraLight, continues to serve as Chairman of the Board for InLight Solutions, Inc. and as a director for VeraLight, Luminous Medical, and Lumidigm—all spinout companies of InLight Solutions. He has an M.D. from the University NM School of Medicine and a M.S. and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford.

Marwood Ediger, CTO

Is a specialist in fluorescence spectroscopy and tissue optics. Prior to joining InLight Solutions in 2003, he spent 16 years at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, leading a research program in the applications of lasers and optics in medical devices. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois.

John Maynard, Executive Vice President

Co-founder of VeraLight and InLight Solutions with 20 years of electrical engineering and product development experience. Led a 44-person product development team that successfully designed, built and tested low cost, high performance engineering prototypes of a noninvasive glucose monitor following the design control requirements of the FDA quality systems regulations. Prior to co-founding InLight, John was a project lead and embedded systems engineer at BBN, Inc

Scott Dolin, VP of Operations

Mr. Dolin has over 27 years of medical device industry experience, with the last 15 years as vice president of operations & engineering. He served at IMED (acquired by Cardinal Health), an intravenous infusion therapy company, for 13 years with his last position as director of operations and worldwide engineering. Mr. Dolin has managed the successful commercialization of numerous major device platforms domestically and internationally and has successfully been involved with medical device startup companies. Previous to his medical device industry career, he served 8 years at the University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, Department of Reproductive Endocrinology, as a research specialist.

Mirasol Panlilio, VP of Marketing and Sales

With nearly 20 years of life science industry experience - over 15 years at LifeScan, Inc. (a Johnson & Johnson company), and most recently at Abbott Diabetes Care. Prior to joining VeraLight, she served as director of worldwide strategic marketing of Abbott's in vivo business. At LifeScan, she headed the marketing efforts of the company's hospital business unit, championed its first joint product venture with Inverness Medical, and led the sales and marketing teams for its Asia Pacific business. Additionally, she managed the development and successful commercialization of several new products.