Serdar Yeralan has been an effective leader who fully understands and manages product development efforts for over 15 years in various size corporations. Serdar’s strengths come from his keen technical ability to innovate, develop, and launch products with strong business acumen. He has successfully developed and launched over 18 products into various markets with nearly 95% on time and in budget track record. The products have been introduced in diverse industries such as R&D, medical device, consumer electronics, consumer goods, general lighting, specialty lighting, power supply, telecommunication, sensors, laser technology, and optical detection. Serdar has lead teams as large as 35, projects as big as $7M for durations as long as 3 yrs. His leadership style has lead him to executive level roles to manage international engineering teams, spearhead R&D, program manage globally, manage and execute upstream marketing, business analysis, and product viability efforts.
Serdar has over 15 years of industry experience working for companies such as Sandia National Labs, DigiLens, PerkinElmer, and Optovue. He is presently consulting for many well-known institutions of various sizes, business stages, and industries.

Specialties: Executive Management, International Consulting, Product Development, Program Management, Research and Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, People Management, Business and Market Evaluation, and Startup.

Doug Doughty, Ph.D. has been an effective executive level leader with 25+ years of industry experience in applied sciences and engineering. Doug has had extensive portion of his career devoted to studying and innovating in the areas of clean energy, efficient lighting systems, and applied plasma physics. His detailed and comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of science and scientific methodology enables him to tackle even the most daunting tasks in the most effective and fundamental way. His skills in scientific modeling and exploring complex engineering problems have earned him well deserved CTO level recognition in the corporate world and countless academic awards.

Specialties: Research and Development, Scientific Analysis, Simulation and Modeling, Plasma Physics, Applied Physics, General and Specialty Lighting, Engineering, Spectroscopy, Metrology, Project Management.

John Talarico has been an effective executive level leader with 30+ years of industry experience in medical device regulatory, quality, and clinical arena. John has spearheaded many Company’s regulatory, clinical and quality commitment and efforts in procuring international regulatory approvals. John’s expertise ranges from the lifting of FDA warning letters, gaining PMAs, 510(k)s, INDs, 505(b)2, and IDE approvals as well as other international product approvals (FDA, CE and other non-EU countries).
John has over 25 years of extensive medical device experience in the areas of Quality, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, working for companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Honeywell Medical and Bell Labs; as well as presently consulting for many well-known institutions within the medical industry.

Specialties: Executive Management, International Consulting, PreMarket Approval, 510(k) and IDE approvals for Class I,II & III devices and other international product approvals (FDA, CE and other non-EU countries).

Brian Hermes has 20 years of international business experience with 17 years concentrated on sales, marketing, and business development with photonic instruments, imaging systems, lighting and sensor products. Mr. Hermes has held global responsibilities for medical instrument markets as well as managing projects for break through new markets in robotic surgery, general lighting, specialty lighting, and R&D. Mr. Hermes has held executive level positions during his career where he established and managed global organizations, investigated market opportunities, crafted business strategies and contributed to product and business roadmaps.

Specialties: International Marketing and Sales, International Customer Development, Executive Management, Product Management, Business Strategy and Development, Medical Devices, General Lighting, Specialty Lighting, Clean Technology, Consumer Electronics