Leadership

Meet Our Exceptional Team of Experts

With over 150 years of combined clinical and commercial experience, Diagnostic Ventures has assembled industry experts to bring our first commercial products to market, both in specific disease diagnostics as well as new platform technologies.

Diagnostic Ventures

Leadership

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Brian Bentley
Founder & CEO

Brian has extensive experience in healthcare over his 30-year career. He has held leadership positions in both sales and business development roles. He also has experience as a Founder and Chairman, specifically in healthcare software-as-a-service. Brian is also a successful angel investor.

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Devin Connor
Co-Founder & President

Devin has over 17 years of commercial experience, primarily in operations, business development and sales leadership. He also was a co-founder of a healthcare software-as-a-service company.

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Anthony Shimkin
MBA, MS, MA
Advisor - CEO

Anthony has over 25 years of commercial medical device and diagnostics experience, with a focus on sales, marketing, business development and go-to-market strategies. He has completed 2 IPOs and 8 acquisitions for $3.75 billion. Anthony has held executive positions at Cardinal Health, QuidelOrtho, Qualcomm and he was head of health care equity research at Wedbush.

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Ghazi Kashmolah
MBA
Advisor - COO & Regulatory Affairs

Ghazi has over 25 years of experience in medical devices, including regulatory, quality, clinical and product development experience. He also has an extensive background in global product registration. Ghazi’s background includes executive positions at IdentifySensors, Lucira Health, Thermo Fisher, Becton Dickinson, and Orchid Orthopedic Solutions.

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Matt Alder
MD, PhD
Advisor - Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Alder has over 10 years of sepsis specific research experience and is currently a pediatric critical care medicine specialist. He is the author of 31 publications to date.

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William Pitt
PhD
Advisor - Chemical Engineering

Dr. Pitt is currently a Professor in Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young University. He has extensive experience with approximately 235 publications to date.

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Richard Robison
PhD
Advisor - Microbiology

Dr. Robison is a Professor of Microbiology and Department Chair at Brigham Young University. He is a Director of Biosafety at a Level-3 laboratory. Richard has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and 6 books to his credit.

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Jonathan Hill
PhD
Advisor - Genetics

Dr. Hill is an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Brigham Young University. He has 13 publications to date and he is a Fulbright Scholar.