Meet The Team
G. Fertram Sigurjonsson
Founder
- Former Head of Wound Management at Össur, the world’s leading noninvasive orthopedics firm
- Former VP of Business Development at biotech company Keratec (now Keraplast)
- Experience from executive positions and board memberships in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, New Zealand and the United States
- 2021 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Entrepreneur of the Year in Iceland 2015.
- Awards from the President of Iceland on innovation and entrepreneurship
Mike Cadigan
Vice President Region US
- Former Managing Partner of Cadigan Capital
- Former Partner, SMS Display Group
- Former Asset Manager, Colony Capital
- Former Staff Accountant, Deloitte & Touche
- M.B.A. and B.A. from the University of California – Irvine
Christopher Harte
Vice President International Markets
- Global business development, operations and finance
- 30 years of business experience
- Seven years as a business expatriate in Eastern Europe, Western Europe and India
- MBA from the University of South Carolina
- Guest professor at Penn State, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and George Mason University.
Bernd Greiner, MD
Vice President Region Europe
- Former Senior Vice President Advanced Wound Dressings and Vice President Coloplast Homecare
- 25+years experience in medical device sales & marketing & scientific affairs
- Former General Manager & Vice President at KCI
- Former Director Marketing at Biomet
- M.D. from the University Tübingen, School of Medicine, Germany
Gudmundur Oskarsson
Vice President Product & Medical
- Former Director, Sales & Marketing, VÍS Insurance Ltd.
- Former Chief Commercial Officer, Icelandair
- Former Head of Marketing and Sales, Air Iceland
- Co-Founder, MyTweetAlerts
- B.A. in International Communications & Business Economics from Penn State University
- Diploma, International Communication, University of Leipzig
Daniel L. Mooradian, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Advisor
- 30+ years of experience in Global Medical Device R&D/Product Development
- Former VP R&D at Synovis Life Technologies (Baxter International)
- Former Director of Preclinical Sciences – Interventional Cardiology, Boston Scientific
- Former Director of R&D – Cardiac Rhythm, Boston Scientific
- PhD. Experimental Pathology (Wayne State University)/BS. Biological Sciences (University of Michigan -Dearborn)
Gunnar Johannsson, MD
Senior Vice President & Medical Director, Co-Head Clinical Development
- Former Kerecis SVP, Research & Development
- Co-founder of sleep-correction company Somnify
- Background in clinical product development
- Founding partner of inntaka.is, an interactive e-learning platform for medical students
- Research Director for multiple clinical research projects in the U.S., including large-scale, multi-center trials
- M.D. from the University of Iceland School of Medicine
Joe Smith
Executive Vice President Research & Product Life Cycle Management
- 20+ years of experience in medical device development and commercialization
- Former EVP Customer Transformation and EVP of Enterprise and Corporate Contracting at Kerecis
- Former Technology Innovation Leader and Director of Product Management at Healogics
- Former Ecomagination leader for GE Healthcare
- BS Mechanical Engineering, BYU. MBA Thunderbird International School of Business
Philip Krogh-Jacobsen
Vice President Finance
- Global Finance and Commercial development
- 15 years of experience in Finance, Strategy, and M&A in global organizations
- Former Medtech Director in GN Group across Europe, APAC, and Distributor Markets
- Expertise in formulating strategies and driving transformation initiatives
- Former Senior Consultant at PwC
- MSc Finance & Strategy from Copenhagen Business School.
- International experience from Director positions and studies across Australia, Asia, UK, and Denmark
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From the town of Ísafjörður in northwest Iceland, Kerecis develops, manufactures, and distributes patented fish-skin medical devices that support soft tissue regeneration in the body, with regulatory clearance in the United States, Canada, Europe, and beyond.