Management Team

Shai N. Gozani, M.D., Ph.D.

President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Dr. Gozani founded NeuroMetrix in 1996 and currently serves as Chairman of the board of directors and as our President and Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to forming the company, Dr. Gozani completed a neurophysiology research fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Gerald Fischbach at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gozani has published articles in the areas of basic and clinical neurophysiology, biomedical engineering and computational chemistry.

Dr. Gozani holds a B.A. degree in Computer Science, an M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Neurobiology, from the University of California, Berkeley. He also received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at M.I.T.

Guy Daniello

Senior Vice President of Information Technology
Mr. Daniello has served as Senior Vice President of Information Technology since July 2003. He previously served as Vice President of Information Technology and Director of Information Technology since joining the company in 1998.

Prior to joining NeuroMetrix, Mr. Daniello was an independent software consultant, the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Shiva Corporation from 1996 to 1997, and the Chief Technology Officer & Vice President of Product Development at Gandalf Technologies from 1993 to 1996. In 1991 he founded Network Architects, a software company. Prior to starting Network Architects, he served as President and CEO of Datamedia Corp. and the Director of Small Systems Development at Honeywell Information Systems.

Mr. Daniello holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University.

Michael Williams, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President of Engineering
Dr. Williams has served as Senior Vice President of Engineering since July 2003. He previously served as Vice President of Engineering from May 2000 to June 2003.

Prior to joining NeuroMetrix, Dr. Williams served as Division President at Radionics, where he was responsible for all software-based products, including treatment planning and image-guided surgery. Prior to Radionics, he served as an engineer at Hughes Aircraft Space & Communications Group.

Dr. Williams received a B.S. from University of Puget Sound and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Brown University.

Xuan Kong, Ph.D.

Vice President of Research
Dr. Kong joined the company in 1999. As VP of Research, his group's primary responsibilities include 1) to develop scientific and engineering solutions to meet the challenges of existing and new product development; 2) to identify and formulate new product concepts that leverage company's core competence in science, medicine, and engineering; 3) to partner with internal clinical and engineering staff, consulting scientific and clinical experts to accumulate company's intellectual capital for future product development; and 4) to advance scientific and clinical knowledge by disseminating research findings through peer-reviewed publications and professional meeting presentations.

Prior to joining the company, Dr. Kong was a tenured associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Northern Illinois University (Dekalb, IL). As a principal investigator, he successfully led many federally and industrially funded projects in signal processing research and bio-electric signal analysis applications. He has published numerous papers in leading signal processing, biomedical engineering, and clinical neurophysiology journals. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Beta Gamma Sigma. He is certified as professional risk manager by PRMIA. Dr. Kong received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University and MBA from Boston University.

Charles Fendrock

Vice President of Manufacturing, Intellectual Property and Strategic Innovation
Mr. Fendrock has been with NeuroMetrix since June 2001 and is responsible for the business relationship with all contract manufacturers, for controlling inventory levels, for product distribution, and for the introduction of new products into production. He is also responsible for the intellectual property activities of the company and for strategic innovation.

Mr. Fendrock has held management positions of increasing responsiblilty at both large and small medical and other technology firms, including Abbott Laboratories/MediSense, Aspect Medical Systems, Hewlett Packard Medical Products Group (now part of Philips), and Symbolics, Inc. He holds numerous domestic and international patents.

Mr. Fendrock holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and an MBA from Boston University.

Monty Hukill

Vice President of Sales, Diagnostic Devices
Mr. Hukill has been with NeuroMetrix since September 2002 and has held the positions of Director of Sales, Regional Director of Sales, and Region Manager. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Hukill held sales and sales management positions of increasing responsibility across start-up divisions of leading device and diagnostics companies, including Nellcor, a division of Tyco International, Aspect Medical, and Chiron’s Diagnostic Division.

Mr. Hukill holds a B.A. in Biology from Texas A&M Commerce.

Michael J. MacDonald

Vice President of Marketing
Mr. MacDonald has been with NeuroMetrix since September 2000. As Vice President of Marketing, he is responsible for Marketing, International Sales, Healthcare Economics, Account Management and Corporate Accounts.

Mr. MacDonald has over 17 years of marketing & sales management experience in the medical device industry. Since joining NeuroMetrix he has had various Sales & Marketing roles of increasing responsibility including Market Manager, Region Sales Manager, Director of Marketing, Director of Strategic Marketing and Vice President of Healthcare Economics.

Prior to joining NeuroMetrix, Mr. MacDonald held various marketing positions at Smith & Nephew Endoscopy, a world leader in minimally invasive surgical devices. These responsibilities were focused on leading the company’s efforts to diversify into the additional minimally invasive markets with the development of new, less invasive surgical techniques and devices. Prior to Smith & Nephew, he held a number of positions with progressive marketing responsibility at Deknatel, Inc., which specializes in the development of products for cardiovascular and other specialty surgery markets.

Mr. MacDonald holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University.