PRESIDENT
David Kawalik
David Kawalik is President at Philbrook Corporation and the Chief Engineer for our projects. He holds a Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Arizona State University’s School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering and an MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business with concentrations in both Health Care Management and Supply Chain Management.
Along with a background in industrial construction management, David has a strong focus on design for manufacturing engineering, which, combined with an iterative design prototyping style, leverages the use of additive technologies to rapidly transform client ideas from abstract concepts into device-in-hand products ready for production.
Engineering Project Manager
Nick Fritz
Nick Fritz is an Engineering Project Manager at Philbrook Corporation. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Arizona State University’s School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering where he focused on developing optical stimulation devices for optogenetics research.
With previous experience as a contractor for the Space Medicine Division at NASA and project management experience contracting for Google, Nick brings his leadership skills, knowledge of human biology, and prototyping expertise to medical device design.
Founder
Avi Roop
Avi Roop is a Managing Director at Research Corporation Technologies and on the board of Miret Surgical and ExoToe. His twenty-three-year career in surgical and interventional device markets encompasses ten years at 2 large-caps, thirteen years at 5 start-ups and one year in venture capital. Three of the five start-ups were sold to strategic partners; the other two are going concerns. Avi has spent fourteen years in customer-facing roles spanning senior management, corporate marketing, and product development. He possesses extensive experience in early-stage development from unmet need identification to early commercialization.
During his career, he has been named on twenty-nine issued US patents and more than 40 issued patents globally. Avi completed the Stanford Biodesign Fellowship supported by the Cottrell, Kauffman and Lucile Packard Foundations, received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and received a BS Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology.
