Partners
Rom Papadopoulos, M.D.
Dr. Rom Papadopoulos has 25+ years of investment/merchant banking and private equity investments, along with senior executive operational experience. He is the managing partner of Intuitus Group, a financial advisory firm based in Atlanta, GA., which he founded in August 2005. In this capacity, his duties include capital raising activities with corresponding deal size ranging from $25 million to $50 million and buy/sell-side M&A transactions with transaction valuations of $250 million and below. Dr. Papadopoulos has excellent contacts within the hedge fund, private equity, venture capital and financial communities as well as the chemical, energy and pharmaceutical/biotech industries and has been involved in over $5 billion of total transactions.
Dr. Papadopoulos has a proven, extensive track record in business start-ups, capital raising activities, patent and intellectual property protection and strategies, business development and expansion, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, marketing and operations.
Dr. Papadopoulos is the CFO and EVP for acquisitions of Viveon Health Acquisition Corporation. He previously served as Managing Director at Charles Towne Holdings and, earlier, as the CFO of Tenex Health. Dr. Papadopoulos also was the CFO and COO of Global Energy Holdings Group (AMEX: GNH), a renewable energy company. Prior to that, he was managing director of Jacoby Group, a diversified real estate investment group with over $500 million of investment capital and $10 billion of assets under management. In previous years, Dr. Papadopoulos was a managing director of Caymus Partners, a middle market boutique investment bank. He currently sits on the board of directors of three companies in the medical device and retail industries.
Board of Advisors
Stephen Carter
Mr. Carter is the former chief executive officer of both Superior Essex and Cingular Wireless.
Jerry Couvaras
Mr. Couvaras is the owner and chief executive officer of Atlanta Bread Company and Bake One, Inc.
Jagi Gill, PhD
Jagi Gill is the Vice President and General Manager of Acumed. Mr. Gill brings over 15 years of experience in various executive positions in management, marketing and business development at Boston Scientific, Advanced Bionics and the Mayo Clinic. He founded and served as chief executive officer of Tenex Health. In addition to Tenex Health, Mr. Gill has co-founded two other successful medical device companies.
Steven Townsend
Mr. Townsend is a private investor. Previously he served as the chief executive officer and chief financial officer of United Natural Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ:UNFI).