Board of Directors

Brian Carrico joined the Company in 2012. During his tenure, Mr. Carrico has held multiple leadership positions of increasing responsibility, including Vice President of Sales and President before becoming CEO on January 1, 2018. As an early employee in the Company’s life cycle, Mr. Carrico was instrumental in setting the strategic agenda for the Company, raising start-up capital, championing new product development, and bringing the Company’s technology to market. Prior to joining Neuraxis, Mr. Carrico worked selling in the operating room at Bard Medical and in the Cath lab at St. Jude Medical. He attended Indiana State University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing.

Dr. Brown is a co-founder of the Company. He developed clinical protocol, initial practice guidelines, designed and implemented the practitioner certification program, initiated the company 401K, and personally financed the first two years of the Company. After developing the technique of transillumination to isolate auricular neurovascular bundles, he authored and designed the initial studies establishing neurovascular and tissue energy transfer theories upon which the devices’ use are based. Dr. Brown establish initial communications with Dr. Tom Carrico (Chief Regulatory Officer), Dr. Adrian Miranda (Chief Medical Officer), John Seale (Accountant & CFO) and our IP attorneys at Barnes and Thornburg. Dr. Brown is listed as the sole or principal inventor on all NeurAxis patents and is currently active in further device development working closely with compliance, product design, and engineering.
 
Upon graduation from the Indiana University School of Dentistry in 1982, while serving as clinic chief in the United States Army Reserve (USAR) dental corps at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Indiana, Dr. Brown started a private practice (current) concentrating in head, neck, and facial pain developing the first hospital-based facial pain clinic in Indiana. He received his master’s degree in Biomechanical Trauma in 1996 from Lynn University, one of only 12 dentists in the United States to hold the combination of DDS and MPS degrees. Dr. Brown has authored several textbook chapters, published peer reviewed articles on the physics of soft tissue trauma, pain, financial management, was regional editor for a national facial pain management Journal, and has lectured extensively nationally and internationally. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pain Management for 15 years, helping grow the organization from 800 members to over 5000. Throughout his tenure, he developed educational tracks, served as Industry liaison, one term as treasurer and one term as President. He served on the national board of The Alliance of TMD practitioners, serving one term as president.

Throughout his career, Dr. Brown has been active in the purchasing and management of several destressed clinics, re-structuring them into profitable enterprises. He has performed extensive volunteer work overseas providing surgical care in the Dominican Republic, local dental clinics serving the underprivileged, and recently provided dental screenings for the deployment of soldiers in the USAR and National Guard.

Bradley Mitch Watkins has overseen four companies through their early commercialization periods within the medical device sector over the last 12 years. He has reported to the CEO or BOD directly and operated as the lead for all field operations. These duties have groomed Mr. Watkins with a wide array of responsibilities beyond sales, including marketing, clinical study design, manufacturing, R&D, FDA submissions as well as fiscal oversight are all areas of experience and competence. Mr. Watkins has been the National Sales Manager of Terumo Interventional Systems since 2015, where he has led multiple new technology sales teams within the peripheral IV and Electrophysiology markets. He now manages corporate accounts and GPO contracts for the Cardiovascular line of products. Over his 18 years in a multitude of medical device markets, Mr. Watkins has overseen $410 million in company acquisitions in an array of leadership roles. He has reported directly to CEOs and the Board of Directors and has thrived in early commercialization, recruitment, and strategic company direction. Mr. Watkins received his bachelor’s degree in behavioral science from the University of Maryland. Mr. Watkins agreed to join the Company’s board of directors with proven expertise in commercial operational efficiency and sales effectiveness for startups and large corporations.

With more than 20 years’ experience in executive roles in population health, Beth Keyser is skilled at understanding the unique, complex needs of multiple market segments and devising solutions that meet their specific goals. Ms. Keyser is the President, BCBS of Indiana at Anthem, Inc. since 2020. From 2018 to 2020, Ms. Keyser served as the President, Create at Brighton Health Plan Solutions. From 2015 to 2020, Ms. Keyser served as the Senior Vice President, International and Hawaii Markets at Sharecare, Inc. Ms. Keyser received her master’s degree in Executive Master of Science, Health Administration, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

As Capri Communities and Bridges Home Healthcare’s President and Chief Financial Officer, Kristin Ferge is a well-rounded and highly accomplished C-level financial and operational executive and business leader. Kristin’s holistic understanding of operations and sustainable growth has directly contributed to Capri’s growth during her tenure. Since joining Capri in September 2016, the company’s revenue has grown significantly from $25 million to over $280 million through acquisitions and new developments. She has been instrumental in positioning Capri as being recognized as one of the best operators in Wisconsin and creating the platform for continued growth and operational success.

Kristin’s specialty is leading fast-paced, dynamic, high-growth and business turnaround initiatives to a successful conclusion. She leads multi-discipline teams across a wide variety of financial and operational areas to provide quality services, track leading key indicators, and recruit and retain quality employees. She brings expertise in both a for-profit and non-profit setting. She leads capital-raising activities and is also responsible for building relationships with private equity investors, investment bankers, commercial banks, lessors, auditors, attorneys, and shareholders.

Kristin’s expertise includes operations management, debt and equity financing, IPOs, M&A, restructuring, SEC matters, strategic planning, governance, treasury, banking, and financial analysis and modeling, financial reporting, and auditing. She also has significant experience working with Boards of Directors and Audit Committees.

Prior to Capri, Kristin was Executive Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, and Treasurer with Brookdale Senior Living for 18 years. Brookdale had revenues over $6.0 billion, making it the largest for-profit, publicly traded senior living corporation in the US. She was responsible for strategic planning, SEC and financial reporting, all corporate cash management and financial modeling, budgeting, and financial analysis for over 1,100 residences located in 47 states and 180 corporate departments. She also served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Alterra Healthcare Corporation, a privately held senior living company, where she was responsible for the financial operations of 300 locations and overseeing a team of 300+ professionals. She was instrumental in providing leadership and guidance in a pre-negotiated Chapter 11 restructuring that resulted in a successful sale of the Company to private equity investors.