Academic Medical Centers
Tech transfer offices & clinician-inventors
(MedTech Commercialization)
FMI builds that path: from a clinician's idea, to a funded prototype, to a company that wants it.
Talk to Our TeamTech transfer offices & clinician-inventors
5-phase, 8-gate commercialization funnel
MedTech suppliers & investors
(About)
A de-risked device is worth more to everyone who touches it next.
(Our Process)
Five phases and an 8-point kill gate. Capital protected at each one.
D.A.R.E.E.
Five phases, one repeatable pipeline
Sourced from tech transfer & academic medical centers.
8-point Kill Gate & Upside Scorecard evaluation.
Engineering & prototyping under exclusive option.
Manufacturing, filing & clinical evidence under license.
Acquisition, licensing, or hybrid — capital recycled.
Fewer wasted years for inventors, less diligence risk for acquirers, and a repeatable pipeline instead of one-off bets.
(Core Values)
Doing right, even unwatched. We do what's right for clinicians, patients, and partners — even when it's the harder call, and even when no one's checking.
Ideas that actually ship. Disciplined commercialization turns ideas into devices, not slideware. We measure ourselves on what ships.
Nobody wins this alone. Open, cooperative relationships across tech transfer, suppliers, and investors — every stakeholder pulling the same direction.
Solving real problems. We back practical devices that solve real, defined clinical problems — not novelty for its own sake.
Results, not excuses. Every team member takes initiative and delivers results that matter — and owns the outcome either way.
(Leadership)

CEO
Committed to helping innovators solve their most pressing challenges. Providing intellectual property risk management and commercialization services to inventors and entrepreneurs. Experienced in patented innovation, intellectual property, property & casualty insurance leadership, anti-competitive practices, and false advertising & trade secret conflicts. Particularly effective in situations that require transformative strategy, patent commercialization, and operational expertise.

CMdO
Committed to solving Healthcare's most challenging problems by helping innovators and clinicians work together. Surgeon / Executive / Founder / Investor, with experiences that include Hospital CEO, National Health System Chief Clinical Officer, Public Company Board member, Venture Investing, National Physician Organization President, and multiple Startup roles, including as Founder and Board Chair.

CMO
Senior Marketing Executive with the unique vantage of growing brands, sales and earnings from both the corporate and agency perspective. A true storyteller that has helped build some of the most iconic brands by understanding the intersection of insights, creative development and analytics. Versatile, energetic growth innovator, and change agent with demonstrated skills in building existing businesses and identifying and securing new business. Consummate team player, who finds great reward in finding, mentoring and growing the only asset an agency has, its people.

CFO
Pete is a CPA (retired) with 45 years of experience, having served as the National Director of Regulatory Accounting for the Price Waterhouse Energy Group and later as a partner at Skoda, Minotti. He also has significant accounting and financial reporting experience with manufacturing, insurance, and nonprofit organizations.

COO
Experienced engineering and operations leader with 30 years of experience in innovation and development. Broad understanding of mechanical design, electrical design, optics, control systems, and software development. Inventor on 26 U.S. Patents. In depth understanding of Patent/IP strategy, portfolio management, and patent litigation. Participated in all aspects of the company business including executive leadership, engineering, operations, procurement, sales, marketing, IT, and customer support.

CIO
Accomplished executive and board leader with over 30 years of experience driving growth and operational transformation in large global organizations. Wade has held senior leadership roles at Procter & Gamble, Tyson Foods, Walgreens, and Joann Stores, leading major mergers, financial restructurings, and strategic growth initiatives. Known for his global perspective, disciplined execution, and collaborative leadership, he brings deep expertise in finance, operations, and organizational strategy across both corporate and entrepreneurial settings.

CSO
Innovative entrepreneur and marketing executive with a proven record of developing and commercializing consumer products that solve everyday challenges. Jamie has more than 25 years of experience leading marketing, product development, and commercialization efforts, including senior roles at ICI Paints and as founder of several successful ventures such as SureSwatch and Forget Me Spot. Her ability to identify unmet needs and bring creative solutions to market complements her role in Sales and Assessments at Fairmount Medical, where she applies her business insight and customer-focused approach to evaluating clinical innovations and advancing commercialization opportunities.
(News)
(Contact)
Tech transfer officers, clinician-inventors, and strategic partners — this is where the pipeline starts for Class I and II devices.
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