Jim Doscher

CEO

2020 - Current

Advise early-stage companies on advancing the development and adoption of digital health. Expertise in strategy and business model development, product-market fit, device selection, reimbursement pathways, and partnership and ecosystem opportunities. Specializing in digital and sensor-powered chronic disease management, as well as point of care diagnostics.

VP Ops

2021

Staying out of the hospital is a key determinant in long term health. Many older adults leave a hospital stay in poorer health than prior to admission. Embrace nurse practitioners help you take charge of your health and act on the most important health determinants at the right time. In addition to helping you, your nurse coordinates your care with your entire healthcare team. Embrace pharmacists consolidate all of your meds from all of your care providers and evaluate them to ensure that all are required and at the proper dosages. Our pharmacists are available to answer your questions, and our nurses ensure that you take your medications as intended. Our nurses track your progress with Embrace systems that identify issues before they become problems. Personal Prevention CareTM keeps you out of the hospital to stay independent

Strategic Advisor

2021

Imago Rehab enables superior recovery outcomes for stroke survivors through a combination of home use wearable robotics and digital health.

Angel Investor

2021

On Deck Healthcare

2020

The On Deck Fellowship is an invite-only 10-week program, designed to bring the very best talent from across the On Deck network together to connect over a series of digital gatherings, expert workshops, 1:1 introductions, and more. The goal of the Fellowship is ultimately to help more people build better companies by forming stronger, better aligned founding teams; fast-tracking early hires; and helping founders construct a community around themselves at the very earliest stages. ‍ It can be helpful to think of ODF less as a “10-week finite program” and more as joining a lifetime community. The 10 week program is your onboarding, which we do in cohorts to aid the smooth transition.

Mentor - Wildcard EIT Health

2020

Every year, Wild Card builds two new ventures that break new ground, push boundaries and troubleshoot some of European healthcare’s greatest challenges. We attract the brightest talent, mentor founders-to-be and invest up to €2 million in the two most promising ventures. Launched in 2017, Wild Card is backed by EIT Health – one of the largest healthcare networks in the world, counting 150 world-leading organisations as partners and supported by the European Union

Strategic Advisor

2020 - 2020

Advise and help clients accelerate growth as part of Concinnity’s Advisor Network. We partner with ambitious companies in the health, life sciences and alternative energy industries solving real problems that will improve lives, sustain our environment and drive positive social change.

General Manager, Healthcare Business Unit and Molecular Sensors Group

2014 - 2019

Grew business unit by 50% to 140 employees and $400M annual revenue. Administered a $50M R&D budget while directing strategy, market, and technology execution for innovative healthcare solutions in digital health, internet of things (IoT), wearables, vital signs monitoring, medical imaging, instrumentation, and biosensors. • Focused team on meeting emerging opportunities in the digital health care market, primarily outside of the hospital; grew annual revenue at 14% from a previously flat growth trajectory, while capturing high profit margins. • Developed platform business models, directed development of new digital health use cases, and launched company’s first foray into FDA-qualified medical devices targeting chronic disease management in the home. • Transitioned team from component development to higher value system and sub-system product development, rolling out offerings with significantly higher selling prices at equivalent profit margins. • Incorporated new skill sets and disciplines in healthcare business operations, including hiring biomedical engineering, software development, and mechanical engineering staff; built a systems team that developed strong partnerships with doctors, insurance companies, hospitals and startups. • Assumed direction of a struggling sensor initiative, providing disciplined leadership to focus and redirect the strategy. Headed a 50-member team in transitioning technology platforms from incubation stages to commercialization. Developing solutions for optical and electrochemical smart sensors aimed at healthcare, industrial, and automotive markets. Matured two platforms to technology readiness, allowing productization and commercialization.

Product Technology Director

2009 - 2014

Directed development of products and technology needed by Market Segment Teams to execute market driven strategies. Responsible for several different technology areas: High Speed Linear, Isolation, Wireline (including fiber optics, SERDES and JESD204B), Optical and Healthcare related sensors. • Improved execution and time to market for new products. • Developed long term technology roadmaps to anticipate future needs and capabilities. • Developed advanced technology to drive performance 2X to 10X ahead of industry benchmarks

Product Line Director, High Speed Linear

2005 - 2009

Led $130M, 70-person group focused on high-speed amplifier products for communications, industrial/instrumentation, broadband, display and video applications. • Grew sales 18% Y-Y while improving gross margins by 4%. • Led turn-around for struggling broadband product line and re-established market position. • Reorganized staff and engineering resulting in enhanced collaboration throughout the organization.

Marketing Manager, High Speed Optical Networking

2002 - 2005

Led turn-around of struggling fiber optic component business. Anticipated radical changes in economics, standards, customers and technology that characterized the segment since the telecom bubble. Redirected the strategy to emerging growth areas such as fiber to the home, and storage area networks. Managed seven marketing and engineering professionals. • Grew sales at 40% per year in a volatile market; consistently positioned group to land number one or number two in its chosen markets. • Led team to increase system knowledge and develop sophisticated modeling techniques to improve customer support of the design-in cycle and improve productivity of application resources.

Director of Marketing, Optical MEMS

2000 - 2002

Developed business, selected customers, and defined products for ADI's entry to the market for telecommunications switching using Optical MEMS devices. Defined product, process and technology needs, identified target customers, negotiated development and production contracts. Managed communications programs, PR and Marcom. Led customer development activities and negotiations with ADI's optical MEMS customers. • Negotiated multi-million-dollar development and production deals with key players, such as Nortel, Onix and Tellium. • Generated $12M in commitments for NRE and production.

MEMS Accelerometer Marketing Manager

1994 - 2000

Identified and developed emerging markets for micro-machined sensors in start-up business. Created product and market strategy, defined new products. Implemented business plans to develop a fast-growing, profitable segment to complement the division’s automotive business. Directed promotional activities including: direct mail, advertising, website development, sales tools, and training. • Created demand for micromachined products by evangelizing new uses for the technology in car navigation, alarms, gaming, PDA’s and body computers. • Developed revolutionary dual axis accelerometer, product that won prestigious “Innovation of the Year” award from Electronic Design News in 1998. • Created new paradigm for video gaming market by developing and promoting revolutionary new motion-based game controllers. Won designs at Microsoft, Logitech, Nintendo and Sony.

Board Member

2017 - 2019

Board member and advisor to MIT's Medical Device Realization Center.

Board Observer

2016 - 2019

LifeQ is a digital health and analytics start-up that combines skills from various disciplines (biomedical engineering, theoretical and experimental physics, systems biology, life and behavioral sciences, hardware engineering) to understand how our physiology, anatomy, behavior and our environment interact and how human health and wellness can be improved with this understanding.