Paula is a senior executive with over 24 years of broad operational and financial management experience. Her expertise includes leading financial operations, successful capital raising initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, strategic and operating planning and turn-around management.

Prior to founding Vallon LifeScience, Paula served as the VP Operations and Finance for ThreeWire Inc., a clinical trial patient recruitment firm. Prior to ThreeWire, Paula played a key role in successful liquidity events at three distinct medical device companies, Restore Medical, Spine-Tech and IntraTherapeutics. Paula served as Vice President Finance and Treasurer for Restore Medical, Inc., an emerging growth medical device company. She also served as Vice President Controller for two Centerpulse-owned medical device companies, Spine-Tech and IntraTherapeutics.

Paula began her career as an independent auditor with Ernst and Young in Milwaukee, WI. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse and is a certified public accountant.

Paula is a member of the Twin Cities Financial Executives International Board of Directors and is active in several other community organizations.

Doug has over 18 years of executive operating experience in leading emerging public and private companies. Prior to founding Vallon LifeScience, he was managing director at Cherry Tree Securities where he led the Technology and Information Utility Practice.

Prior to Cherry Tree, he was the CEO of ORIGIX Corp, a venture capital backed network provider of gigabit Ethernet services, where he raised over $5 million in equity.

Prior to ORIGIX, he was the Senior Vice President for Superior Consultant Holdings a publicly-held management consulting firm focused on the digital transformation of health care services. During Doug’s tenure, Superior grew from $34 million to over $125 million in sales in two-years and met analyst expectations for eight straight quarters.  Concurrently, Doug was the President of Superior’s Enterprise Consulting subsidiary that grew from $3 million to $19 million in sales over the same two-year period.

For eight years, Doug was a principal shareholder of Epic USA, an international management consulting firm until the firm was sold to a midwest-based regional accounting firm. Doug started his career with AT&T International where he was the in-country marketing consultant in Cairo, Egypt.

Doug is an experienced fundraiser and effective turn-around specialist. He received his BA degree in International Business from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and attended the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Kate is a dynamic business veteran recognized for creating stronger organizations by enhancing the alignment of employees and customers. Combining extensive experience and knowledge in marketing, sales, human resources and operations, Kate is the person in an organization who “just gets it”.

An authority on organization development, Kate has helped companies of all sizes and across all major industries attract, retain and engage employees to meet the goals and objectives of organizations.

Kate is a frequent presenter, community manager, employee engagement consultant, brand coach and business thinking partner.

Kate received her BA in Communications from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. She is also a licensed educator, has her Senior Professional in Human Resources certification and holds a Black Belt in Six Sigma.