Our Team | Bio-Sim Corporation

The Bio-Sim Corporation team is well balanced in talents, experience, and contacts. It consists of seasoned professionals that have: Fortune 500 and global market experience, familiarity with FDA procedures, and seasoned management and execution skills. These individuals provide the breadth and depth of knowledge, expertise, and contacts to ensure appropriate corporate representation.

Ty Endean, D.O., Orthopedics
Dr. Ty Endean attended California State University, Sacremento on a full football scholarship and graduated as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He went on to graduate from Western University College of Osteopathic Medicine with honors, received the Clybourne Award as Outstanding Orthopedic Intern at Doctors Hospital, in Columbus, Ohio, and completed his orthopedic residency at Memorial Hospital, York, Pennsylvania and Siani Hospital in Maryland, where he was honored as Outstanding Orthopedic Resident. He served as an orthopedic consultant for the Oakland Raiders and as team physician for the USA Rugby Team, World Cup 2003. He was a sports medicine fellow at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Palo Alto, California in 2002-2003 before joining Arizona Orthopedics private practice in Tucson. He serves as team physician for the Arizona Heat and orthopedic consultant to the San Jose Sharks, as well as, Cienega and Rincon high schools. Ty acts as a medical consultant to Clearant Technologies and Stryker Surgical. He actively publishes in peer-review journals.

David M. Joseph, M.D.
Dr. David M. Joseph received a degree in biomedical engineering from MIT, where he received numerous honors. As a Biomedical design engineer at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Dr. Joseph spent seven years designing and developing medical products. Dr. Joseph received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and served a residency in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowships at both the MGH and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He is board certified in both anesthesiology and pain management. Dr. Joseph received his management training at the Center for Executive Education at Babson College, the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and the American College of Physician Executives. Dr. Joseph has served as CEO of a 65-physician group practice, as Chairman and CEO of a large regional MSO, as the Director of the Healthcare Division of an international consulting firm, and as Chief Medical Officer of two medical device companies. Dr. Joseph has published extensively in the field of medical management, has served as a columnist for Healthcare Business Digest, and has been awarded advanced standing in the American College of Physician Executives. He is the inventor or co-inventor of over a dozen devices, and is a founding member of the Desert Angels. Dr. Joseph has served as trustee and fiduciary of a $25M retirement plan, on the finance committee of the Arizona Medical Association, and on the examining committee of Northwestern Mutual Financial Services ($86B in assets). Dr. Joseph has served as a managing partner of an investment fund as well as a director, trustee, consultant or advisory board member for numerous organizations, ranging from hospitals to start-up companies to Fortune 500 corporations.

Ioanna T. Morfessis, Ph.D.
In 2004, Dr. Morfessis started her consulting practice, IO.INC.; a visionary consulting practice that delivers expert and effective strategies and solutions to help leaders, organizations and places grow. The firm's mission is to help leaders and their organizations or communities envision, define and execute strategies and solutions that maximize growth and success. Among IO.INC's clients are Fortune 500 companies; master planned community developers; mid-cap firms; local, regional and national non-profits, and municipalities. Previously, she was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore, that region's private-public partnership for economic development. For the first time in the region's 300+ year history, local and state governments joined together with business and educational leaders to expand economic and earnings potential for the entire community. During her tenure, the Economic Alliance helped generate more than $5.2 billion of new private economic activity in Greater Baltimore's economy. She has served as the founding President/CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, where she helped lead the movement to combine 18 organizations into a unified effort, and transform the Phoenix region's economy into one of the highest performing urban economies in the US. Prior to that, she served as the first Director of Economic Development in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she initiated what today is one of the world's foremost life sciences and biotechnology centers. Dr. Morfessis served as the Chairman of the International Economic Development Council (formerly CUED) from 1993-1995, and has served on its Board for 20 years. As a civic steward, Dr. Morfessis serves or has served on the boards of many local, state and national charities and non-profit organizations, including art and science museums, community foundations, private charitable trusts and service organizations. Currently, she is a founding director of the Helios Education Foundation, a new $600 million endowed foundation that provides access to post-secondary education in Arizona and Florida. Throughout her career, she has received numerous awards and acclamations, had many articles published in respected trade journals and has appeared on several major network and cable television and radio programs. She received her bachelor's degree from The American University (magna cum laude), her master's degree from George Washington University, and her doctorate from Arizona State University. She resides in Phoenix, Arizona.

Thomas P. Stagnaro, M.B.A.
Mr. Stagnaro received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Oregon State University, and his Masters of Business Administration from San Jose University. He has over forty years of experience in the medical, and biotechnology fields. His career includes sales, marketing, management and fund raising experience. He has served as a top level manager or director in over a dozen companies, including InKine Pharmaceuticals, Ixion Biotechnology, Board of Visitor for University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) and Intellivax International Inc., Protalex, Inc., Keck Graduate School, Claremont Colleges and LSRO; and is an active member of BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organization). He has negotiated numerous contracts with US biotech companies and successfully built the infrastructure of many of the organizations that he managed, both in human resources and in sales volumes. He has been responsible for managing hundreds of people and multiple sales pipelines in excess of $220 - $250 million. His achievements include: taking Univax public through a secondary IPO offering after raising $80 million, introducing WinRho SD® and assisting 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in raising over $35 million from venture capitalists and corporate partners; in total, he has raised over $250 million during the last 15 years. He has extensive experience bringing products to market, including those requiring clinical trials and FDA approval. At Agile, he initiated multiple phase II trials evaluating a transdermal patch. He licensed a late-stage product, WinRho SD, from Cangene and successfully brought the product through CBER and introduced it into the United States. He has licensed technology from NIH, Stanford, University of Oregon, Walter Reed Army Hospital, and from numerous other biotech companies: ImmuCell, Cambridge Biotech, Genentech and Chiron. Recently, he was invited to become part of the board of directors of the Singapore National Science Foundation, responsible for allocating over $360 million in incubation funds to start-up companies. When he is not traveling abroad, he enjoys playing racquetball, golf and power boating with his children and grandchildren.

W. Don Stull, P.E., M.B.A.
Mr. Stull received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering, with minors in architecture and mathematics, from Texas Tech University, where he received numerous honors, including the Murdough scholarship for the outstanding Civil Engineering student. He received his Masters of Business Administration from Texas Tech University as well. He is a registered Professional Engineer in three states. Mr. Stull has served as a special project engineer for the US Army Corp of Engineers, and spent 13 years in positions of increasing responsibility with two major engineering firms. As Chief Technology Officer for Alamosa PCS (NASDAQ: APCS), Mr. Stull developed the financial model, wrote the initial business plan, grew the staff from one employee to 60, secured $48.5M in equity investments, controlled a budget of over $150M, assisted in two acquisitions, and assisted in taking the company through the IPO process (second largest IPO in Texas history). Mr. Stull has assisted development stage companies by writing business plans for over 20 companies, has presented to numerous technology groups, and teaches entrepreneurship at the College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University.

Michael Valdiserri, Ph.D., Chairman, Neuropsychology & TBI
Dr. Valdiserri received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from West Virginia University, and completed an undergraduate internship in Neuropsychology at Chestnut Ridge Hospital’s Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry. He received a Ph.D. in Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. An accomplished researcher and manager, he has participated in original research under five National Science Foundation grants. He was the project director, for four years, on a National Institutes of Aging grant, examining aging memory, which ran as a large multi-site study between Harvard University and the University of Arizona. For two years, he was also project director of a National Institutes of Mental Health study, which examined EEG analysis of brain functioning and sleep disorders. He has had extensive neuropsychological assessment and diagnostic training at the University of Arizona’s Medical Center, Tucson Veteran’s Memorial Hospital, and Ruby Memorial Hospital at West Virginia University. He has served as a nationally based statistical consultant for the medical industry, specializing in home-health care delivery and efficacy of treatment. A gifted educator, he was an instructor at the University of Arizona’s Extended University and at one of the nation’s leading senior educational organizations. At that time, developed a series of nationally recognized proprietary teaching modules for mnemonic enhancement in seniors, and was critical in developing a nationally recognized computer-learning center, which received funding from the National Institutes of Aging. Under his direction, the Bio – Sim Corporation has developed numerous patent-pending medical solutions, with the potential to revolutionize medical technology. Over the past few years, he has won several awards for his work on neurological and neuropsychological predictors of self-consciousness and multiple neural systems involved in consciousness. In addition to serving as Chief Technical Officer of Bio-Sim, he has recently been offered two university positions: Adjunct Professor at Arizona Health Sciences Center Department of Neurosurgery and Director of Medical Information Systems for ASTEC (Arizona Surgical Technology and Educational Center). He is currently engaged in several lines of small grant-funded research investigating Neuropsychological Predictors of Traumatic Brain Injury and Self-Consciousness, Traumatic Brain Injury en and Navigation, and Self-Reference and Memory. He has initiated NIH and CDC grant proposals looking at: (a) frontal lobe functioning in risky decision making and self-awareness, and (b) neuropsychological predictors and multiple systems of consciousness. He is a Mensa member for life, an avid skier, and award winning ISKF Karate brown-belt.