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.

Thomas T. Higgins

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Higgins brings to NeuroMetrix a broad set of financial management and operations skills from his experience with publicly traded companies in life sciences, specialty chemicals and financial services. He has extensive international experience with a particular emphasis on Japan, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Prior to joining NeuroMetrix, Mr. Higgins was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Caliper Life Sciences. Inc, a provider of technology and services for life sciences research. Before Caliper, Mr. Higgins was Executive Vice President, Operations and Chief Financial Officer at V.I. Technologies, Inc. (“Vitex”), a biotechnology company addressing blood safety. Before Vitex, Mr. Higgins served at Cabot Corporation in various senior finance and operations roles. His last position at Cabot was President of Distrigas of Massachusetts Corporation, a subsidiary involved in the liquefied natural gas business, and prior to that he was responsible for Cabot’s Asia Pacific carbon black operations. Before joining Cabot, Mr. Higgins was with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he started his career.

Mr. Higgins holds a B.B.A. with honors from Boston University.

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.

Walter Christensen

Senior Vice President of Global Sales
Mr. Christensen brings over 30 years of experience in global, national, and regional sales leadership for small and large multi-national medical device companies. In addition, Mr. Christensen has been involved in creating, expanding, and reorganizing multi-national field sales network operations including direct and indirect sales staff.

Prior to joining NeuroMetrix, Mr. Christensen was the Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Stereotaxis, Inc. At Stereotaxis he created sales and business network strategies that established market share in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Prior to Stereotaxis Mr. Christensen was Vice President, mid America zone at Philips Medical Systems. At Philips Medical Systems he created and expanded a successful U.S. sales operation that integrated the use of field sales personnel and a large dealer organization. Previously, Mr. Christensen served as General Manager at General Electric Medical Systems where he was responsible for the Nuclear/PET Division in North and South America.

Mr. Christensen received his degree in Business Administration from Harrisburg Community College, Harrisburg, PA and his Radiology Technology Certification from Holy Spirit Hospital, Camp Hill, PA.

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.

Michael J. MacDonald

Vice President of Marketing
Mr. MacDonald has served as Vice President of Marketing since May 2008. He previously held several Sales & Marketing roles of increasing responsibility including Region Sales Manager, Director of Marketing, Director of Strategic Marketing and Vice President of Healthcare Economics since joining NeuroMetrix in 2000.

Prior to joining NeuroMetrix, Mr. MacDonald held various marketing positions at Smith & Nephew Endoscopy, a world leader in minimally invasive surgical devices. These roles were focused on leading the company’s efforts to diversify into additional minimally invasive markets with the development of innovative surgical techniques and devices. Prior to Smith & Nephew, he served in multiple product management roles at Deknatel, Inc., a company specializing 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.