TBS' Management possesses extensive product development, marketing, manufacturing and management experience in the clinical and industrial laboratory industry. Company principals have developed and licensed to major corporations a multitude of highly profitable and successful products. TBS executives have proven to be reliable in managing significant growth, seeking new market opportunities, integrating acquisitions and establishing & maintaining key relationships with vendors, distributors and customers. Furthermore, TBS' success with previous acquisitions has given its management team credibility with the financial community. Resumes for key management are presented here.

 
Prior to co-founding the company, Mr. Hunnell was Vice President of Centaur Sciences, Inc., a manufacturer of disposable laboratory plastics and medical instrumentation. In that position, he had general management responsibility for the development, manufacture and marketing of a wide variety of high margin consumables and equipment serving both the clinical and medical research markets.

Previous positions include president of a construction company, national sales manager of a medical chemical manufacturer and various sales positions with the Scientific Products Division of American Hospital Supply Corporation. While with American, Mr. Hunnell consistently finished in the top 2% in sales, was the first $2 million salesperson of a 500-plus person sales force, and was the number one sales representative several years running.

His undergraduate focus was in biology and chemistry at West Virginia University followed by several years of research, teaching experience and graduate work in medical biophysics at West Virginia University's School of Medicine. Mr. Hunnell has various bonus and stock options that provide significant compensation for future commitments and meeting certain milestones.

 
Ken Marzinsky joined TBS in October of 2008. Prior to TBS, Ken was President and CEO of ValveForce International. Ken has also held various senior management positions at Ford Motor Company, the Boeing Helicopter Company and Eaton Corporation where he was General Manager of the Air Controls Products Division in Roxboro, North Carolina. Ken holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard University.

 
Mr. McGlinn is Chief Operating Officer and a Director of CapitalSouth Partners, A North Carolina based private equity fund with over $500MM under management through multiple committed funds.  Mr. McGlinn has been associated with TBS since 1996, served as President of TBS from 1999 to 2002 and has served as a Director of TBS since 2002.  Prior to TBS, he was a Certified Public Accountant with Price Waterhouse, LLP in Boston where he worked with several high-tech startups.  He has a Master's of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of North Carolina's Kenan Flagler Business School and received his undergraduate degree in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame.  Mr. McGlinn serves on the Board of Directors of several other healthcare and middle-market companies across the Southeast.

 
Ms. Veasey joined TBS in 1985. As the Company had few employees at the time other than the Founders, Ms. Veasey's responsibilities included purchasing, inventory management, shipping & receiving and everything else that needed done. Over the years she continued to grow in her ability to contribute to the Company and has been the Operations Supervisor for many years. In recognition of her continued growth and commitment to the Company, she was promoted to Operations Manager in December of 2003. Ms. Veasey directly oversees Shipping & Receiving, Inventory Control and numerous manufacturing functions related to production of the Company's consumable and reagent product lines.

 
Mr. Geyer joined TBS' Marketing Team in November 2001. He has over 15 years of business development, marketing and management experience in both domestic and international markets. Greg has created entrepreneurial opportunities for himself in multiple businesses and has held executive management positions in several healthcare related firms including Recovery Corporation of America and AmeriNet.

Mr. Geyer is multilingual and has lived, worked and attended graduate school in Europe. He holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.

 
Eddie Hunnell, Director of Engineering, has worked at TBS for two years. In that time he has installed a formal R&D Development process, improved the quality and support of all TBS products through a new support process he installed, and worked on the development of a dozen new histology products including a new water bath with integrated management, slide dryer, and linear stainer. At TBS, Eddie helps define the products, manages the engineering team, and performs all of the electronics design, circuit board layout, and some of the software / firmware development for TBS.

Prior to working at TBS, Eddie was a Product Manager of Broadband Access products at Nortel Network in RTP where he worked for 12.5 years. While at Nortel he held several other positions including Director of Software Development, Test Manager, and Software Developer. Eddie has extensive experience managing large development teams distributed across the world and has worked with several India based contract development companies (TCS, Infosys, Wipro) as well as Huawai in China. The primary products Eddie worked on as a software developer included large networked Telecom switches.

Prior to Nortel, Eddie worked as a Hardware Test Engineer for the US Navy working on the AV-8B Harrier avionics support team at the MCAS, Cherry Point, NC.

Eddie has a MBA from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, 2001 and a BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, 1991.

 
Michael McClafferty, Engineering Consultant, has worked at TBS for the past year and a half.  Mike has provided software and hardware support services for various existing TBS products, and is currently working on several new projects:  A software management system for TBS instruments, and embedded software for several upcoming TBS products.

Prior to working at TBS, Mike was a senior software engineer for four years at Qimonda/Infineon, a global-scale manufacturer of semiconductor memory products.  Mike developed software and test equipment crucial to ensuring a semiconductor design was ready for extremely high-volume production.

Mike also has eight years experience of Telecom software development experience at Nortel, where he was involved in the development of diagnostic and device driver software for leading-edge telecommunications products. He has also held several other positions in the past, developing software and hardware for diverse industries such as industrial controls, flight simulation, radar manufacturing, and naval command and control systems.

Mike has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of New Brunswick.

 
Simon Lewandowski, Mechanical Design Engineer, is responsible for the mechanical design of new products as well as existing product improvement.

For seven years prior to working at TBS, Simon was a Senior Engineer at Conexant Systems where he was responsible for company-wide mechanical design of broadband communications equipment chassis, thermal management, and test beds.

Prior to Conexant Systems, Simon worked for Medacoustics Inc. as a Design Engineer for five years.  At Medacoustics, Simon was responsible for mechanical design of microphone arrays and associated data acquisition hardware for a passive acoustic heart sound monitor.   The device underwent patient studies at Duke University Hospital.  Simon played a key role in supporting the studies, including on-site guidance and training of hospital staff.  Simon holds two patents on acoustic sensors as a result of this research.

Prior to Medacoustics Inc., Simon worked for Structural Acoustics Inc. as a Research Engineer for six years.  At Structural Acoustics Simon was a mechanical engineer on a three person team which designed, built, and performed tests with a computer-controlled mechanical model of the human heart’s left atrium, ventricle, and aorta. These were components of a closed loop, pressure-controlled left ventricular pulse duplicator. The duplicator was used to study artificial heart valve mechanics and acoustics.  Simon also designed high cycle fatigue machines for the testing of artificial heart valves and pace maker lead wires.

Simon has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University, 1992.

 
James Schaefer, Mechanical Design Engineer, has worked with TBS since early 2009, focusing on continuous improvement in quality and manufacturability of mature TBS products, as well as supporting the design and development of new equipment for TBS’ expanding histology product line.

Previously, Jim has been a founding member of Descher Automation, LLC, an employee-owned firm offering automation and engineering support to manufacturing firms in the automotive, consumer product, and life science industries.  Prior to founding Descher Automation, Jim held a position as Engineering Manager with Solara Solutions, another North Carolina based automation integrator, where he directed both design and build teams, as well as managed projects ranging from custom electronic test stands to multi-million dollar automated assembly cells.  His work experience is rounded out with earlier stints in manufacturing and quality engineering at high-volume electro-mechanical manufacturers in Virginia and North Carolina.

Jim holds his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University, and completed his undergraduate work at Virginia Tech, earning a B.S. in Engineering Science & Mechanics.  His undergraduate focus was on materials, with an emphasis on structural applications, and he contributed to NASA work on the use of piezoelectric discs in visco-elastic damping of satellite supporting struts.  His subsequent work and study shifted his attention to automation and fabrication technologies, and at NC State, Jim worked with the Mechatronics group, focusing on equipment and process improvements in the creping of reclaimed paper products.

Creative and focused, Jim brings his wide ranging skill-set to bear on the TBS team, championing design and prototype groups in the development of the next generation of TBS histology products.

 
Jesse Hart, Associate Engineer, has worked at TBS for 23 years. During that time he has worked on almost every type of equipment found in a histology lab. Jesse’s primary functions have been in the area of mechanical and electrical prototype development, designer testing, second level support for the customer service team, wiring diagram development, product documentation, and transitioning of products to manufacturing.

Prior to joining TBS, Jesse worked for Telecom Radio In for 3 years servicing and installing radio communications equipment. Jesse has an Associates Computer Technology degree from Control Data Institute of New York and a CFC certification from North Carolina State University.

 
Darren Wilson, TBS Software Development, is a certified Pathologists’ Assistant (AAPA, ASCP) who works in Philadelphia. Darren’s primary duties are the gross dissection, and dictation of tissues to be analyzed for underlying Pathology.  He serves as a “liaison” between the surgical staff and Pathology.

Darren is also responsible for overseeing the laboratory LIS system and is certified as an “Advanced Tools Trained” by Sunquest Information systems..  Darren has also undertaken the necessary studies in Microsoft Visual Studio (VB/C#/ASP.NET) as well as database Management (SQL SERVER/MYSQL). 

Darren has written several programs that work both in conjunction with the LIS systems and standalone systems as well.  He is particularly interested in interfacing systems. For TBS, Darren writes most of the Shur Mark print software.

Prior to working in Philadelphia, Darren was a lead PA for a large multi-hospital system in Charlotte NC.   And prior to that was a PA at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.