Advisory Board

Medical Advisors

Dr. Lee Lipsenthal, M.D. Corporate Medical Director and Business Dev. - Wellness
Lee was Vice President and Medical Director of Dr. Dean Ornish's Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He developed and directed research in lifestyle modification for cardiac patients and trained physicians, nurses, exercise specialists, psychologists and stress management instructors in the delivery of cardiac risk modification programs. He helped create relationships with health insurers to establish payment for the Ornish lifestyle modification/risk factor reduction programs. Prior to that, he was Medical Director of Cardiovascular Services for the Benjamin Franklin Clinic in Philadelphia.

Prof. Dr. Paul Rosch M.D., President of the American Institute of Stress
Dr. Paul Rosch is the President of the Stress, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at New York Medical College, and Honorary Vice President of the International Stress Management Association. He is a cardiologist and one of the world's leading authorities and media spokesperson on stress.

Dr. Bruce Wilson, M.D., Health Communications and Business Dev. - Medical, Insurance and HMO.
Bruce is a cardiologist using the Freeze-Framer® in his practice at North Shore Cardiology. He is a HeartMath® trainer and leading spokesman for use of HeartMath® and Freeze-Framer® for cardiac patients and stress reduction, appearing on a PBS special on HeartMath®. Formerly, he was Director of University of Pittsburgh Heart Institute, Assistant Professor of Cardiology at University of Minnesota Hospital and awarded Teacher of the Year by the Minnesota Medical Foundation.

Business & Technology Advisors

Dick Bernacchi, Partner, Irell & Manella
Dick Bernacchi is a partner of Irell & Manella, a law firm specializing in computer,  e-commerce and entertainment law is facilitating QI's patent, licensing and IP strategy.

Robert Brasch, President & CEO of Pacific Partners, Inc.
Robert Brasch identifies and develops new business opportunities for Asian companies in the U.S. and for American companies in Asia. He is a graduate of Columbia University, has spent over 30 years in the U.S. banking and business community. In 1983, he became founding president and CEO of the World Trade Bank. He was instrumental in organizing am/pm Japan, Co. Ltd., a Japanese convenience store chain with annual sales in excess of $ 2 Billion generated from over 1300 locations. He is also a frequent speaker at business seminars throughout the United States and Japan. Mr. Brasch is able to conduct business seamlessly in English, German and Japanese, converse in French, and knows some Spanish.

Fred Fuchs, formerly President of American Zoetrope
Fred Fuchs, formerly President of American Zoetrope (Francis Ford Coppola's Production Co.), is assisting in QI's interactive media Web Portal plan.

Steve Gang, Principal, Gang & Gang Resonance Research
Steve Gang, of Gang & Gang Resonance Research, a leading market research firm has done the market research presented in this business plan and once funding is acquired will do more in-depth market research to insure a managed ramp up of QI's marketing and sales efforts, to more accurately predict QI growth by market segment, and to create product /service /channel / customer congruency.

Jim Huffman, formerly Director of Motorola's Emerging Technologies Division
Jim Huffman was director of Motorola's Emerging Technologies Division for many years and works with QI on product development and manufacturing.

Charlie Inlander, President of the People's Medical Society
The People's Medical Society is the most influential consumer health advocacy organization in the United States. Charlie is a faculty lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine, an adjunct faculty member at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and a Fellow of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is on the advisory boards of the Citizen Advocacy Center, the Primary Care Management Association, and the American Academy of Family Physicians and author of numerous books. Charlie is a consultant to QI on pharmaceutical and healthcare licensing.

David Joffe, Founder, CTO, VP R&D of Lexicor Medical Technology
Lexicor is a leading manufacturer of EEG brain mapping technology for the behavioral medicine market. David has also been involved in the creation of a number of other biomedical companies including Biox Technology, which invented and marketed the first pulse oximeter. David's main interest relates to mathematical transforms, which can be applied to the analysis of the EEG and HRV. David has also been involved in a number of HeartMath research projects over the years and developed some of the signal processing algorithms currently used in the Freeze-Framer.

Bill Keating, former COO of Moxi Digital
Moxi Digital is a high tech consumer products start-up company. Bill's last six business ventures have gone public or been successfully acquired. Bill served as General Manager of the Microsoft TV Platform Division (MSTV). Prio to Microsoft, Bill was SVP of Worldwide Field Operations at WebTV Networks, Inc. Before that he was VP and General Manager at General Magic and the object-oriented business unit of Rational Software. He also co-founded the SunSoft subsidiary at Sun Microsystems.

Andre Lake Mayer, Principal, Twisted Sisters
Andre Lake Mayer was Director of Licensing for Lucas Arts and Entertainment, responsible for Star Wars licensing and prior to that position was Director of Licensing for Paramount, responsible for all Star Trek licensing. Andre is consultant to QI's game and toy development and licensing initiatives.

Bob Megantz
Bob Megantzhas more than twenty years experience in technology development and licensing, primarily in the electronics, telecommunications, and computing industries, working with established and start-up companies.  His responsibilities have ranged from product development to intellectual property management to marketing and executive management. Bob worked at Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, in various engineering and management positions, including as General Manager.  While at Dolby, he directed a large, successful international licensing operation with more than 125 licensees in the consumer and professional audio markets. Bob is a consultant to QI on technology and powered by HeartMath® brand licensing.

Chris Sawicki, Principal, Hunter Kane Ltd.
Chris Sawicki is a principal of Hunter Kane Ltd. based in UK. Hunter Kane human performance consultancy providing a range of training and development services in a number of market sectors across Europe.

Larry Udell, Executive Director of the California Invention Center, of the Center For New Venture Alliance and of Intellectual Property International, Ltd.
The Center For New Venture Alliance is part of the California State University system. Mr. Udell teaches at leading universities throughout the U.S. and Canada. He lectures on inventions, patents and intellectual property for the PTO, and overseas for the World Intellectual Property Organization, which is part of the United Nations. Mr. Udell is a consultant for QI in intellectual property and patent strategy, and licensing.




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