Ed Michael Reggie, MBA
Chairman of the Board of GuideStar Clinical Trials Management
Managing Director of Future Factory
Board member of the New Orleans BioInnovation Center
Ed Michael Reggie serves as Managing Director of Future Factory, an investment holding company. He has served as a board member and advisor to companies involved in medical technology, clinical research and healthcare payment systems. He serves on the Board of the New Orleans BioInnovation Center, a wet lab incubator and a Good Manufacturing Practices laboratory for stem cell, vector and DNA production.
John B. Elstrott, PhD
Chairman of the Board of Whole Foods Market
Founder and Executive Director of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute
of Entrepreneurship at Tulane University
John B. Elstrott, PhD, is a well-known authority on entrepreneurship in the U.S. He is currently Executive Director of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship (which he founded in 1991) through the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. He periodically serves as an economic development and strategic planning consultant for state and municipal governments and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Allan Fine, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy and Operations Officer
The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Allan Fine has spent more than three decades in strategy and business development within the healthcare industry working with Boards of Directors and executive teams on strategic, operational, financial and governance issues. His experience ranges from working with providers, managed care organizations and life science companies to start-up/entrepreneurial ventures. Currently, he is Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy and Operations Officer with The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (NYEE) where he is charged with developing and implementing the institution’s long-range plan to promote its mission related to patient care delivery, research and education. He also has operational responsibility for much of the hospital’s clinical and non-clinical areas.
James A. Hardy
Founding Director of the Office of Technology Development
for the LSU Health Sciences Center
James A. Hardy is the founding Director of the Office of Technology Development for the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. In this position he has responsibility for the Intellectual Property assets of the University’s six local colleges: Schools of Medicine, Allied Health, Nursing, Graduate Studies, Public Health, and Dentistry. As the University’s research faculty generate new ideas and inventions, James leads the process of recruitment, evaluation, and promotion of these valuable assets. Previously, he was a grant writer and major gift coordinator for the LSU Health Sciences Center Foundation.
Kristin P. Hutchins, MHA
President and Chief Executive Officer of GuideStar
Kristin P. Hutchins leads GuideStar’s expert team in the development and management of comprehensive clinical research programs for hospitals, health systems and physician practices. Her mission is to deliver clinical trial management services to clients with a precision of execution, efficiency and operational excellence, while enhancing the client’s strategic business growth, and still respecting the client’s individual needs and goals.
Alan M. Miller, MD, PhD
Director of the Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center
Chief of Oncology at Baylor Healthcare System
Alan M. Miller, MD, PhD is Director of the Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center and Chief of Oncology at Baylor University Medical Center. He has responsibility for the oversight and growth of all aspects of cancer clinical care, research and education at Baylor.
