Meet our team

Over 225 years of experience in clinical development.

Diagnostic Ventures

Leadership

Brian Bentley

Brian Bentley

Co-Founder & CEO

Brian brings over 30 years of leadership and innovation to modern healthcare. His experience spans senior sales and business development roles, founding and chairing a healthcare SaaS company, active angel investing, and co-inventing diagnostic patent applications.

Devin Connor

Devin Connor

Co-Founder & COO

Devin brings over 18 years of commercial and operational leadership. He served as VP of Sales for a nationwide infrastructure firm valued at $250M and brings go-to-market, healthcare SaaS, and senior advisory experience.

Anthony Shimkin

Anthony Shimkin

President

Anthony is a MedTech executive and global market strategist whose career includes more than $500M in revenue expansion, two IPOs, and eight acquisitions totaling $3.75B, with leadership roles at Qualcomm, Quidel, and Cardinal Health.

Advisors

Christina Ansted, CCMEP

Christina Ansted, CCMEP

Advisor — Commercialization

Christina is CEO of Rapid Commercialization Partners and a biotechnology executive with over 25 years of experience advancing commercialization, launch readiness, and market access, including roles with Alexion, Agile, and PTC.

Leesa Gentry

Leesa Gentry

Advisor — Clinical Strategy

Leesa brings decades of clinical leadership across global trials and business strategy, with experience at RenovoRx, Evotec, Otsuka, IQVIA, PPD, and Omnicare.

Mark & Norma November

Mark & Norma November

Advisors — Investors & Capital

After each losing a parent to sepsis, Mark and Norma became deeply committed to the mission. As founders of Venture Starters, they have mentored entrepreneurs and hosted more than 4,500 founder pitches focused on global challenges.

Russell Kerbel, MD

Russell Kerbel, MD

Advisor — Clinical

Dr. Kerbel brings deep experience in hospital medicine, sepsis care, and clinical informatics as a UCLA Health medical director, physician informaticist, hospitalist, and clinical professor.

William Pitt, PhD

William Pitt, PhD

Advisor — Chemical Engineering

Dr. Pitt is a BYU Professor of Chemical Engineering and microfluidics expert with more than 235 publications and eight patents. His NIH-funded work underpins the company’s centrifugal micro-disc technology.

Jonathon Hill, PhD

Jonathon Hill, PhD

Advisor — Genetics

Dr. Hill is a BYU Associate Professor specializing in molecular genetics, high-throughput sequencing, bioinformatics, liquid biopsy, and cell-free DNA analysis.

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