About IneedMD, Inc.
The company, IneedMD, Inc. has developed a proprietary, disposable device used in the diagnosis, prevention, and monitoring of cardiovascular disease called The EKG Glove™. The EKG Glove™ is designed to obtain an ECG/EKG using pre-positioned electrodes affixed to the underside of a glove-like sheath. The EKG Glove is portable, disposable, and leverages printed circuit technology to deliver a full 12 lead diagnostic electrocardiogram (ECG) with a single use “peel and stick” action. The single use aspect of The EKG Glove™ targets the growing problem of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs), while also reducing the 30%, nearly 1 in 3, error rate associated with the painstaking manual placement of leads. Along with its highly sanitary profile, the speed to care provided by the use of The EKG Glove™ improves the care and monitoring of cardiovascular disease, and eclipses that of any traditional ECG system.
Through the use of our unique, patented, break-through technology, a more rapid and complete 12-lead ECG exam, analysis and diagnosis can be achieved by which time, money and lives can be saved.
Ineedmd, Inc. is the only company to date that is in a unique position to deliver meaningful, significant benefits to both patients and doctors by allowing virtually anyone to administer a full 12-Lead ECG exam anytime, anywhere and in less than 60 seconds.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT...
Our very own Dr. Arthur Tilford, CTO of IneedMD, Inc., is named as the primary and EXCLUSIVE author of a very important and recent U.S. patent issued to The DIRECTV Group, Inc. on December 20,2011 for a "method and apparatus for transmitting, receiving, and utilizing audio/visual signals and other information"..."to be broadcast via satellite and received in a set top box... When requested by a hand held computing device (HHCD), the information is transmitted by the set top box to the HHCD and stored in the HHCD. The HHCD may be configured to display the information on the HHCD's display screen, play back the audio, read a book on the display screen, play a video game on the hand held device, etc."
View US patent number 8,082,572 issued on December 20, 2011 (PDF, opens in a new window).
Congratulations to our friend and co-founder for accomplishing such an important and monumental task.
Executive Team
IneedMD, Inc. has assembled a highly credentialed and experienced management team covering all key disciplines necessary to nurture the company into a large, international corporation.
IneedMD, Inc. is led by the following top level executives:
Govindan Gopinathan,
MD, FRCP(C)
Chairman of the Board – Founding CEO
Dr. Gopinathan is a Clinical Professor of Neurology at New York University Medical Center and primary inventor of The EKG Glove™. He co-founded IneedMD Inc. His extensive clinical background helped him to develop The EKG Glove™ as a multi-purpose bio-metric clinical tool. He is board certified in internal medicine and neurology by the Royal College of Physicians in Canada. He is board certified in neurology by the American Academy of Neurology, certified in internal medicine by the University of Kerala, India, a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and a former Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London. He has previously served as the Director and Chief of Neurology at the Manhattan VA Hospital, and held a Fellowship in Experimental Therapeutics at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD.
In his capacity as Chairman Dr. Gopinathan serves as the Chief Medical and Scientific spokesperson of the company, and he continues the oversight and expansion of the consumer and healthcare diagnostic uses of the patented technology in our biomedical devices and systems.
John V. Pullano, RT, MBA
Operating CEO
Mr. Pullano provides the functional oversight of all day-to-day operations of IneedMD Inc. and its’ responsibility to shareholders and client constituencies alike. He is also the Vice President of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Department at North Shore LIJ Staten Island University Hospital. Mr. Pullano brings over 30 years of direct hospital administration and oversight experience to the company and provides direct guidance on the introduction and approval of new medical technologies and devices into the clinical environment. This experience has insured that IneedMD inc. is positioned to serve all segments of the Healthcare Delivery Network (HDN) including acute care facilities, long term and elder care, EMS, ER, mobile care, and community based hospitals and clinics. He will continue overseeing our expansion in order to insure the success of the company’s mission of improving quality of life, and building a healthcare system that is cost-effective, mobile and through the development of technologies, easily accessible.
Arthur Tilford, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Tilford is an aerospace industry veteran responsible for a total of 11 patents and patent applications, and is an expert systems designer and Federal Licensing and Certifying Engineer, with particular expertise in telecommunications science and radiation hazard compliance. His extensive engineering background helped him, as the principal designer of the EKG Glove and its related products insure their accuracy and application as bio-metric clinical tools. He was formerly with the Aerospace Division of Hughes Electronics where he received the Chairman's Award for engineering DirecDuo an Internet satellite product able to acquire multiple satellite signals from a single direction. He has authored several books, including Satellite Fieldbook Quarterly. He has written the chapter introducing the science behind The EKG Glove™ which is biomedical products for home care use, in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, 2006. In addition, he has authored a 400 page Satellite Workbook(c) for use in satellite engineering classes, taught by him, at the California State University (CSUF at CSULB). He serves the company as the Chief Engineer leading the team behind the design, testing, manufacturing and compliance of any and all products produced by IneedMD Inc.
James
O. Aspin
President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Aspin is a veteran business consultant and entrepreneur having focused on international transportation and electric power industries, and related trade and technology transfer opportunities. Mr. Aspin brings over 30 years of global management and operations experience to the company where he oversees all operating functions including; production, manufacturing, administration, finance, compliance, legal and entry into international markets. Leveraging this experience, he champions all partnership opportunities for the company insuring their economic and sustainable viability. Among his accomplishments, he was Founder and President of Air Vectors Associates, a commercial airport development company that provided fixed base operations at aspiring international airports; partnered with Raytheon Corporation and Energomontage, JSC, a power engineering company operating under the authority of the Russian Ministry of Fuel & Energy, to identify and repower thermal electric power plants in Siberia; led re-engineering and greenfield power development projects in provinces throughout China and Mongolia; served as President and COO of Global New Energy Corporation, a Vancouver-based energy company seeking to commercialize Chinese technologies at power plants in North America, and worked in the rapidly growing Chinese market for crude oil and other commodities in conjunction with various Chinese and American interests. Mr. Aspin capitalizes on these vast international technology experiences to secure a prominent operating position for the company throughout the world. He is a graduate of Yale University and holds a MBA from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania.
Philip M. Hecht
Chief Marketing Officer
Mr. Hecht is a Senior Technology and Sales/Business Development Executive who brings to the company more than 20 years of experience assisting organizations in accelerating growth and market share using a leadership specialty in the introduction of new technologies and services in emerging markets. He has specialized Communication industry expertise and a background in Technology Consulting where he has helped transform go-to-market strategies and organizations to assist companies in maintaining their market relevance. He brings this market management experience to the company where he leads the Domestic and International Sales and Marketing functions, along with New Offer Development. He insures the positioning of the product portfolio is accessible to all markets. Previously he was a Partner at Accenture, the global technology and professional services company, where he was part of the Systems Integration and Technology Consulting Group, and is also a former AT&T Senior Executive, where he served for 16 years leading and transforming sales, business development, and outsourcing delivery organizations, across seven divisions of the company. He has extensive International, Foreign Government, and Public Sector experience, and is considered a thought leader in the impact of disruptive technologies. He has degrees from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Baruch College.
Robert R. Riola
Chief Information Officer
Mr. Riola is an experienced business owner and IT executive with over 25 years of technical expertise across a diverse range of technologies within multiple industry settings. Mr. Riola designed, created and managed large corporate networks and data centers before forming his first of several companies, Northwest Data, Inc., back in 1991. Although a disaster recovery firm serving the health care industry at its core, Mr. Riola created an advanced PC based application that allowed clients to seamlessly place and track orders from a catalog of more than 85,000 business products through a secure phone line connection. In 1994, he extended this technology by creating the internet site BusinessProducts.com which launched within days of the removal of the internet’s “No Commerce” clause back in 1995. Mr. Riola was later recognized as one of the first successful catalog resellers on the web. He was also an early pioneer of creating graphical ads and selling products in mass on eBay, or “auctionweb” as it was called back in early 1994/5. After selling the company in 1998, Mr. Riola formed other web-based businesses that addressed important online issues like digital intellectual property rights, or Digital Rights Management (DRM) as it is known today, and site wide security. During the five years leading up to his employment with IneedMD, Inc., Mr. Riola consulted with companies from small start-ups to large financial holding companies with a need for strategic planning, business reorganization and/or large project management to achieve a clearly defined objective. Mr. Riola holds degrees in Marketing & Management from College of Dupage of Illinois, and in Theology from the Minnesota Graduate School of Theology. Mr. Riola plays an important role in product development, building and maintaining compliant systems, and will lead IneedMD’s entry into the burgeoning Tele-health market.
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