About
VyrtX

Ms. Cummings is the co-founder and President of VyrtX, a creative LaaS (Logistics as a Service) solution focused at improving transportation within the organ transplant industry. Alice is well versed in perishable logistics and is a repeated business development performer.

Early in her career, Alice crafted an extensive financial services acumen in the real estate and private investment space and has spent years networking with family offices, private investors, and serial entrepreneurs to raise capital for various early adopter investments and projects.

Ms. Cumming’s early career started with Wells Fargo and managing mortgages and private investments in New York City, but after a down economy, Alice changed paths and worked over a decade, to climb the ladder in manufacturing and perishables distribution. After building and managing a national sales territory of $10 billion+ and coordinating distribution networks of 1,000+, Alice is highly regarded as an expert on logistics within the CPG and food distribution industries. Alice has worked for, and with, giant organizations such as PepsiCo, Sysco Foods, UNFI, and many of the Blackstone owned organizations.

Alice spent most of her career in the Northeast markets, managing many large and niche distributors across the United States. She’s now located in the Greater Washington DC area. Alice is a licensed EMT and works as a volunteer with her local rescue squad outside of work. She is also an avid runner, triathlete and girls running coach.

Education:

• Professional Certificate, AI & Digital Transformation; MIT, January 2020
• Emergency Medical Technician, Basic Certification – January 2019 – June 2019
• Diamond Mastery, Real Estate Acquisition; Real Estate Mentor, 2015-2016
• Bachelor of Science, Business Management; Virginia Commonwealth University, 2000-2004

Panel & Keynote Speaking Engagements:

• Panelist – Urban Air Mobility, OSU Symposium, February 2020
• Panelist – Ohio Aerospace Day, Ohio Aerospace & Aviation Council, November 2019
• Keynote Speaker – OACTS (Ohio Association of Career Technical Superintendents), Nov. 2019
• Presenter – Motivate the Market & Drone Awareness Week, Fly Ohio, November 2019
• Keynote Speaker – ODOT/ Drive Ohio Annual Meeting, September 2019

Dr. Fisher is a licensed transplant surgeon with transplant and operating room experience on over 10,000 patients. Dr. Fisher recently retired from 36 years active transplant surgery; and also as an Instructor of General Surgery from Harvard Medical School. He stepped down from Directing the Transplant Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and The Transplant Institute to lead SP Global, Inc. in a Chief Medical Officer role, assisting the VyrtX project with innovative logistical transport solutions for the transplant industry, and as an entrepreneur, commercializing his own proprietary regenerative medicine patents.

Dr. Fisher completed his pre-med education at Texas A&M, and his MD degree in Texas as well at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his General Surgery Residency and post-doctoral training in Ohio at Case Western Reserve University Medical Center. After residency, Dr. Fisher’s medical journey continued with service as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Medical Corps, rising to 7th Fleet Surgeon on the USS Forrestal before completing a fellowship in Pediatric and Adult Solid Organ Transplant Surgery at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Children’s Hospital. Dr. Fisher was recruited to the Medical College of Virginia in 1991 by Dr. H. M. Lee, where he rose to be the tenured HM Lee Professor of Surgery and Chief of Liver Transplant and transplant research. He was able to help build and direct the VCU Health/ MCV Liver Transplant Program to an ASTS top tier fellowship program with one of the first cell transplant and adult to adult living donor liver transplant programs in the nation. He left there in August of 2014 to become the Chief of Transplantation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and he was named Peter Medawar Professor of Surgery, the second named in Harvard history, where he stayed until retirement just this past August, 2019. Dr. Fisher also taught and instructed anatomical anatomy to Harvard medical students and instructed residents in transplant and hepatobiliary.

Throughout his career, Dr. Fisher has led major administrative and advisory positions on regional, national and international levels since 1996. His research, editorials and grant review activities are extensive. Dr. Fisher has acted as PI or Co-PI on 73 different projects and garnered funding of over $10 million for those projects collectively. Please review his included CV for more in-depth documentation on past projects and training.