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LifeWatch > About LifeWatch > Management Team

Management Team

Brent Cohen

 President and CEO: LifeWatch AG
Brent Cohen joined LifeWatch in January 2010. He has accumulated over 20 years of varied global management experience in public and private industrial, technology and service companies. Prior to LifeWatch, he served as CEO and Board Member of DoveBid, Inc. from 2005 to 2008, the largest global online auction marketplace for surplus capital and reverse supply chain assets, and as President and COO at First Advantage Corporation (NASDAQ NM: FADV) since 2000. Between 1987 and 1998 he served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Packard Bell NEC (formerly Packard Bell Electronics). Earlier in his career, Mr. Cohen worked in various management positions at Arthur Young. Mr. Cohen is a Chartered Accountant and holds a MBA from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Jake Mendelsohn

 Executive Vice President: LifeWatch AG
Jake Mendelsohn joined LifeWatch in January 2010. Mr. Mendelsohn has over 20 years experience in managing and improving operational and technological functions for companies in various industries. He last served as Executive Vice President for Global Operations and Technology at DoveBid, Inc. From 2000 till 2003, he served as Chief Information Officer at First Advantage Corporation (NASDAQ NM: FADV). Before that he held various management positions (Senior Vice President and CIO) from 1996-2000 at PETsMART (NASDAQ: PETM) and from 1986 to 1996 at The Windsor Park Group (Principal). Mr. Mendelsohn started his career at Arthur Anderson & Co in Cape Town as a Senior Consultant before acting as an Advisory Financial Analysts/Financial Controller at IBM South Africa. Mr. Mendelsohn is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Graduate Degree in Theory of Accounting and a BA of Commerce from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Brent D. Atwood

 Chief Sales Officer: LifeWatch Services, Inc.
Brent Atwood joined LifeWatch in December of 2006. Mr. Atwood brings over 15 years of achievement in healthcare and information technology sales and management. Prior to LifeWatch, Mr. Atwood spent 5 years with Cerner Corporation, most recently serving as the senior executive over National Health Organizations. In previous roles, Mr. Atwood held sales and management roles with Computer Associates International as Vice President, Sales-Enterprise Management Group, and Depuy Orthopedics (Johnson and Johnson) managing sales regions in the Indiana/Midwest region. Mr. Atwood holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration.

Woo Kim

 Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development: LifeWatch Corp.

Woo Kim joined LifeWatch in April 2010. He brings extensive experience in a variety of disciplines including Business Development, M&A advisory, capital raising and venture capital investing. Mr. Kim previously served as the VP of Corporate Development at Vonage (NYSE: VG), where he helped found and build the company into the leading residential VoIP services provider in the U.S. Mr. Kim was also a founding partner at Celsius Capital, a technology venture capital firm, where he lead investments in early-stage startups in the U.S. and China. He has spent many years as a technology investment banker providing M&A advisory and capital raising services with firms such as Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank Securities and Revolution Partners. Mr. Kim holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Mike Turchi

 Vice President, Finance: LifeWatch Corp.
Mike Turchi joined LWS in 2000, and has more than 20 years experience in the financial and business area. Prior to LifeWatch, Mr. Turchi served as Controller for Baldwin Cooke. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Wyoming, an MBA with Honors from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and is a member of Illinois' CPA Society and AICPA.

Marikay Menard

 Vice President of Clinical Strategy: LifeWatch Services
Ms. Menard joined LifeWatch in 2008. She has over 30 years of hands-on leadership, and has enabled ‘early adopter’ healthcare organizations transform manual, disconnected clinical processes to automated, integrated ‘closed-loop’ work flows. Prior to LifeWatch, Ms. Menard served as Executive Director of Healthcare at Cerner Corporation, where she represented Cerner across the healthcare industry and contributed to the development of solutions, services and sales strategy. Ms. Menard holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Honors from the University Of Illinois’ Medical Center, and is a member of the American Organization of Nurse Executives and the Health Information and Management Systems Society.

Shiri Carmielli

 Vice President, Planning, Logistics, and Strategies: LifeWatch Corp.
Ms. Carmielli joined LifeWatch in 2006. Prior to LifeWatch, Ms. Carmielli worked with Hewlett-Packard’s Indigo Division and was responsible for World Wide supply chain operations for the Asia-Pacific and Japan region. In addition, she managed an IT/Billing project and helped develop their global logistical operations in Singapore. Ms. Carmielli holds a degree in architecture from the Holon Academic Institute for Technology in Israel.

George Michelson

 Vice President - Information Technologies.
George Michelson joined LifeWatch in August of 2008 and served as Lead Software Architect before becoming the Vice President of IT. He brings extensive software development, implementation, and management expertise. Prior to LifeWatch, Mr. Michelson was employed with divisions of SeatonCorp, Staff Management and StudentScout, where he was responsible for team building in both the U.S and off-shore to help define, implement, and deploy infrastructure for software development. Prior to SeatonCorp, Mr. Michelson served as Vice President of Technology at Digital Currency Systems, Inc., where he managed software development. Mr. Michelson holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute of Railroad Engineering.
 
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