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Ed Craig

Chief Engineering Officer

Edward Craig is a season technical leader with 23 years of entrepreneurial, domestic and global public enterprise successes.

His expertise spans communications (RF and network), systems management, GIS, Cyber and Public Safety systems design and architecture, project management, and cyber security. Ed is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

He was recognized as a subject matter expert (SME) and senior instructor in cyber defensive methodologies while working as a cyber professional for major defense contractor. Ed has over 20 years experience working as a member of a fire and rescue service. He has formal training in the National Incident Command System, operational planning and response, and as a certified Emergency Medical Technician.

Dr. Robert Fisher

Chief Medical Officer

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.

Hugh Bolton

Chief Technology Officer

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Dave Boulos

Chief Marketing Officer

Dave has 25+ years of experience in Product Management and Product Marketing with a proven history of taking high-tech solutions from concept to “best of breed” status. His primary focus is on product advancement, market share growth and exceeding revenue expectations.

Prior to VyrtX, Dave has held executive positions in Marketing, Engineering, Sales, and Support in organizations that include: ILS Technology, ComBrio, Telco Systems, Sengex and SP Global.

Dave holds degrees in Electrical Engineering, Business Management, Data Communications, and Telecommunications from Northeastern University.

Alice Cummings

President

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

Jami Shawley

Chief Operating Officer

Jami Shawley fills the COO seat at VyrtX and brings boundless energy and extremely deep knowledge of aviation, air operations and where the nation is headed with air mobility. She fills this role in addition to her day job leading and training the U.S.’s military teams. Jami’s highest concerns with the VyrtX project are to develop and standardize safety measures within the organ & surgical team transport space.

Brigadier General Jami Shawley was commissioned as an Army Aviation Second Lieutenant through the United States Military Academy in 1992. She began her career flying AH-1 helicopters in the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea and served at company, battalion and brigade level staff positions in the 3d Infantry Division, Savannah, Georgia.

Following the Engineer Officer Advanced Course, Brigadier General Shawley transitioned to Special Equipment Mission Aviation and Army Fixed Wing operations. She commanded a company in the 224th Military Intelligence (Aerial Exploitation) Battalion, conducting Guardrail missions flying Army RC-12s.

Brigadier General Shawley transitioned to the Army Reserve in 2001 and re-entered active duty as an Active Guard Reserve officer in 2006. She served as the Army Reserve Aviation Branch Chief at Human Resources Command and as the Headquarters, Department of the Army, G-3 Aviation Fixed Wing Officer in the Pentagon prior to deploying as a Task Force Air Director in Afghanistan.

Brigadier General Shawley commanded the 2-228th Aviation Regiment as it supported simultaneous split rotations in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan and provided sustained airlift support to Joint Inter- Agency Task Force South throughout the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility.

Following graduation from the National War College, Brigadier General Shawley served as the military advisor to the Department of State, Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism and as a senior crisis operations and policy officer for the bureau. She then served as the Assistant Deputy Director in the Joint Staff Strategy, Plans and Policy Directorate (J5)-Africa. Brigadier General Shawley currently serves as the Commanding General, Army Reserve Aviation Command.

Brigadier General Shawley has two master’s degrees and holds a number of awards and badges to include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Bronze Star and Senior Aviator Badge.

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