Tom Black, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the OEM Division of B. Braun Medical Inc, is responsible for overseeing the sales and promotion of the B. Braun OEM Division’s products and services. Black has over two decades of experience in the OEM industry with B. Braun. He enjoys working with customers and helping them meet their challenges through contract manufacturing and project management solutions.

Black holds a B.S. in Finance with a minor in Marketing from the University of South Carolina and a Medical Marketing certificate from UCLA. He served for six years with the U.S. Air Force in Tactical Air Command.

Mr. Blank served two years as an officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He earned a BSIE degree from New York University and an MBA from George Washington University.

From 1993 until 2002 Mr. Blank served on the Board of Directors of United Trust Bank in Bridgewater, NJ. He is currently serving on the Advisory Board of PNC Bank, NJ. He is a member of the National Association of Manufacturers Presidents Council. Mr. Blank is a corporate research sponsor of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is a past President of the Jewish Federation of Somerset, Hunterdon, and Warren Counties. Mr. Blank and his wife Harriet have two children and eight grandchildren.

Jack Czajkowski has over 27 years of manufacturing and operations experience having varying responsibilities, with Burroughs Corp, Howe Richardson Scale Company, Johnson & Johnson and Stryker Orthopaedics. He also has 14 years of experience with implementing and operating cellular manufacturing.

Current responsibilities include accelerating new product introductions through the global operations organization of Stryker Orthopaedics. He is recognized by Industry Week magazine in 1998 for operating one of the 10 best manufacturing plants in America. BSIE form Rutgers University, MBA from St. John’s University.

As managing editor for Thomson American Health Consultants in Atlanta, he managed and wrote five newsletters on topics ranging from hospital admitting to medical ethics, in addition to coordinating the company’s successful continuing education audio conference program for doctors and nurses. Delporte began his career as assistant editor for Boating World magazine, later as managing editor for America’s Textiles International (now Textile World), both published by Billian Publishing in Atlanta.

Delporte is a graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Washington, DC.

Michael T. Kagan, BSET, Vice President, Operations since May 2004. Prior to this he was Vice President of Engineering from 1999 to 2004. He joined Immunicon in 1999 from Bayer Diagnostics Corporation where he was Director of Engineering. From 1992 through 1999, at both Bayer and Chiron Diagnostics, he held posts as Senior Project Manager for the ACS: CentaurTM immunoassay system and Manager of Electronic Systems Development. From 1989 to 1992 he was Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corp’s Critical Care group in charge of process engineering for blood gas and electrolyte instruments, sensors and reagents. Mr. Kagan holds a BSET degree from the Wentworth Institute of Technology and completed various graduate studies in Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Case Western Reserve University.

Frank Maloit is currently the Vice President of Corporate Procurement for C. R. Bard, Inc. He coordinates their worldwide purchasing effort. He has been with Bard since January 2001. Prior to this, he worked for several Johnson & Johnson companies in various purchasing, materials and operations management roles. Frank has over 25 years working in the operations/sourcing arena of the medical device industry. Prior to that he spent over 9 years as an officer in the United States Air Force.

Frank has a MBA from Gonzaga University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio State University. He has certification from the Production and Inventory Control Society in Production and Inventory Control Management (CPIM) and Integrated Resource Management (CIRM). Frank is also a Director on the Editorial Board of Medical Products Outsourcing.

Upon joining BD, David brought with him twenty-five years experience in the healthcare industry, most of which was spent with GlaxoSmithKline, both in the United States and abroad. He has worked in the clinical laboratory industry, consumer products, pharmaceutical products and most recently, medical devices.

Kevin M. Quinley is Senior Vice President, Medmarc Insurance Group, Chantilly, VA. He has a BA from Wake Forest University and an MA from the College of William & Mary. He holds the Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation and specialty designations from the American Insurance Institute in Risk Management (ARM), in Claims (AIC), in Reinsurance (ARe) and in Management (AIM).

The author of over 500 published articles and ten books, Mr. Quinley’s articles have appeared in leading industry publications and forums. In 2005, he was the contributing author to the new book, Marketing Medical Devices in the United States.

Kevin teaches classes in insurance, claims and risk management for the Washington D.C. Chapter of the Society of CPCU. He is a past President of the Washington D.C. Chapter of CPCU. He is a frequent writer and speaker on topics relating to risk management and claims-handling. He can be reached via the Internet at kquinley@medmarc.com.

DONALD R. YOUNG, Senior Vice President of Quality Assurance, has over 20 years of experience in the medical supply manufacturing industry in senior leadership roles.

He began his career in 1982 as an engineer for American Bentley Laboratories, where he managed new production line implementations, including equipment and supply chain, for off-shore manufacturing locations, as well as cost-improvement programs. Young joined Avail in 1990 and previously served as Director of Quality Assurance before assuming the title of Senior Vice President, Quality Assurance. He is responsible for Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs for Avail’s global operations, which include eighteen locations, over 3,500 employees, and a Quality staff of 200 people.