Jim DelMauro
Interim Chief Operating Officer
Mark A. Darty
Executive Vice President of Operations
Christopher A. Schnee
Vice President of Global Marketing
Dr. Gunnar Lovhoiden, PhD.
Director of Advanced Technology
Brad R. Silver
Vice President of Business Development
Dr. Herbert D. Zeman
Founder
Jim DelMauro
Interim Chief Operating Officer
Jim DelMauro is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University with a degree in biology. After working in sales for Fisher Scientific and the 3M companies, he joined General Electric in 1970 as a sales rep in New York. After a series of sales management positions with GE with two GE divisions, in 1977 Jim became General Manager of the sales division for GE Medical Systems which was the manufacturer of X ray equipment with sales of $250 million.
During the next 22 years, he held the positions of Vice President of Sales, Service and Marketing and saw GE’s diagnostic imaging business grow to over $7 Billion as it became the largest and most profitable imaging company in the world. Jim was instrumental in pioneering the top down medical sales approach, by achieving a $1.8 billion contract with Columbia / HCA. Jim’s key contacts today in the medical industry are unprecedented and his reputation for hitting the sales number still stands today. Jim worked directly with Jack Welch on numerous occasions involving major customer initiatives.
Today Smith and Nephew CEO, the senior executive at Baxter, and the CEO of Tomo only to name a few are some of the people Jim has hired in the business. In addition, there are key people at Seimens, Phillips, Toshiba, and H-P that are have worked under Jim’s leadership in the past and in fact he hired them into the business which makes them resources for our future. Jim and his wife, Elizabeth, are residents of Rosemary Beach Florida and have 6 children and 5 grandchildren.
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Mark A. Darty
Executive Vice President of Operations
Mr. Darty is responsible for all research, development and product manufacturing at Luminetx. He has extensive technology and product development experience along with a proven track record in transitioning products to the market. Mr. Darty was born in Memphis in 1964. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and later earned a Masters of Science in Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
In 1988, Mr. Darty joined the research and engineering division of General Dynamics in Fort Worth, TX where he designed and developed new avionics for the F-16 fighter aircraft. In 1990 he moved to a senior engineering position at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (now Boeing) in Huntsville, AL. There he founded and directed advanced technology groups that created a host of new products ranging from automated, solid state power systems for NASA to wearable computers for the US Army and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). His first patented invention attracted interest from NASA and led to equipment that went into service on the International Space Station. As a senior member of technical management, he was responsible for developing and transitioning $ millions in advanced technology. His leadership at McDonnell Douglas won him such recognition as the company's Silver Eagle Award. In recognition of his contribution to space exploration he was awarded a US flag flown in orbit on the Space Shuttle in 1996.
In 1998, he joined Brother International Corporation, a global consumer electronics company with home offices in Japan. As Senior Director and head of Brother's North American technology research, he established global R&D cooperation among business units and partner firms in the USA, Europe and Japan. He created and managed long range technology projects, built multi-million dollar advanced scientific laboratories, created an intellectual property portfolio of fundamental patents, and developed many futuristic products. In a public ceremony in 2004, he stunned the regional technology community by presenting Governor Bredesen of Tennessee with a framed image containing a microchip with a nanometer scale Tennessee state flag. The device was produced from millions of individual molecules specially fabricated in the nanotechnology laboratory he created and directed in Memphis, TN.
Mr. Darty has demonstrated repeated breakthrough innovation and the vision and determination to follow through from idea to reality. He holds several patents in key areas such as nanotechnology, imaging devices, micro optical displays, micro fluidics, software engineering, power electronics and control systems.
He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Herff College of Engineering at the University of Memphis, the State of Tennessee Technology Roadmap Advisory Board and the Memphis Area Technology Council.
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Christopher A. Schnee
Vice President of Global Marketing
Chris Schnee is the Vice President of Marketing for Luminetx Corporation. Prior to joining Luminetx, Mr. Schnee held the position of Director of Marketing for Healthtronics managing the corporate Marketing, Quality Control and Assurance, Clinical Outcomes, and Clinical Education.
With over 12 years of experience in various US and global sales and marketing leadership roles, the majority of which have been in healthcare and medical device, he brings experience and leadership from the oncology, cardiology, urology, orthopedic market space from his roles at GE Healthcare, Smith and Nephew Trauma, and Healthtronics. In addition Mr. Schnee additionally has experience in the semiconductor and films industries.
Mr. Schnee graduated from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas with a Bachelors degree in Chemistry. Mr. Schnee resides in the Memphis area with wife Tracy and son Jace.
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Dr. Gunnar Lovhoiden, PhD.
Director of Advanced Technology
Dr. Gunnar Lovhoiden, one of the key collaborators on the VeinViewer™ Imaging System, earned both his Masters of Science and his Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee. His Ph.D project included the design and construction of a proof-of-principle VeinViewer™ prototype which demonstrated the feasibility of projecting vein patterns back onto the skin with the highest degree of accuracy. Additionally, he conducted a clinical pilot study that demonstrated the significant clinical utility of the VeinViewer™ device.
Dr. Lovhoiden's Masters project included the design and construction of a chest phantom for intravenous coronary angiography studies using K-emission x-rays. When available x-ray sources proved insufficient to generate the desired K-emission x-rays, Dr. Lovhoiden spent more than a year at Brookhaven National Laboratory designing and building an original x-ray generator from spare parts made available to him.
Prior to joining Luminetx, Dr. Lovhoiden spent 6 years teaching Engineering and Engineering Technology courses ranging from Basic Electronics and Microprocessors to Engineering Mechanics and Engineering Economy.
Dr. Lovhoiden has co-authored 16 papers ranging from vein imaging to bone densitometry.
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Brad R. Silver
Vice President of Business Development
Mr. Silver brings 15 years of marketing and business development experience to Luminetx. In the course of his career, he has conducted business in over 30 countries and helped companies to pioneer the strategy and products needed to achieve growth in new markets.
Silver is a former Director of Marketing for Thomas & Betts, a global manufacturer of products for the communications, utility, and electrical markets. He served in key leadership capacities within multiple divisions and was part of the turn-around team that guided Thomas & Betts from significant operating losses to double digit profits. Silver launched a business in Malaysia that generated $35 million in annual sales and a Dubai sales presence to support the company’s growing Middle East presence. Silver also drove strategic planning for the company and its $1 billion international division.
Prior to joining Thomas & Betts, Silver was the Europe, Middle East, and Africa regional manager for MacLean Power Systems, a Chicago-based manufacturer. In this role he doubled territory sales within four years, founded and managed multi-million dollar joint ventures in Switzerland and South Africa, developed plans to privatize the Ugandan power grid, and secured a $25 million product agreement for a Pakistan power project.
Silver began his career as a defense and foreign policy advisor to U.S. Senator John Seymour of California. For the senator, Silver aided a constituent with the capture of a $1 billion postal service contract. Silver helped the Senator to marshal funding support for the B-2 bomber, and to define positions on critical foreign affairs matters such as the first war against Iraq.
Mr. Silver has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston University.
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Dr. Herbert D. Zeman
Founder
Dr. Zeman is the inventor of the VeinViewer’s technology. Prior to founding Cohenhill, Inc. which is now known as Luminetx Corporation, Dr. Zeman was an associate professor with the University of Tennessee in Memphis, Tennessee. During his fifteen years of service at the University of Tennessee, he was heavily involved in research and taught courses in advanced engineering mathematics, image processing and geometrical optics.
With over forty plus years in research and development in image processing and medical systems, Dr. Zeman’s contributions have been invaluable to the research and development team at Luminetx. To date, he has published over 80 papers in medical imaging and atomic, molecular and high energy physics. Dr. Zeman currently holds four patents in medical imaging, two of which have been transferred to Luminetx Corporation.
Dr. Zeman earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He completed his MS and PhD in Physics at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Dr. Zeman resides in Memphis, Tennessee.
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