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ProPep Surgical - Executive Staff

Randy Fagin, MD
Chief Medical Advisor

With an experience of over 2,000 da Vinci surgeries, Dr. Randy Fagin is an internationally recognized name in da Vinci® robotic surgery.  He has performed surgery all over the world, has published articles on robotic surgery, serves on faculty for robotic conferences both here in the US and overseas, runs advanced courses for robotic surgery, has been a Consulting Editor for peer reviewed journals, and holds positions of senior medical advisor, medical advisory board member, and consultant for several medical device companies.

Dr. Fagin is the Chief Administrative Officer of the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery.

Dr. Fagin is board certified by the American Board of Urology.

Jim Schneider
Chief Operating Officer

Jim Schneider is a senior medical device executive with over 30 years of US and international medical device development and commercialization experience. With over 16 medical device patents, Jim also has extensive experience with organization building, strategic planning, execution of virtual business models, intellectual property estate development and management of multi-functional project teams. 

As President of Leto Medical, LLC, Jim developed electrical stimulation technology to free individuals from having to wear colostomy bags.  As President & CTO – Zassi Medical Evolutions, LLC, Jim developed GI tract products focused on continence control and waste management & helped launched the $250+M per year market for fecal management catheters.

Jon Schiff
Founder

Jon Schiff was trained as a chiropractor at Life College in Atlanta, Georgia.  Jon was heavily involved with research and electrodiagnostics and as he was finishing up with the program transitioned into the field of intraoperative monitoring. 

Jon started his first Intraoperative monitoring company in 1999 in San Antonio, Texas. This company was called Neurodiagnostic Consultants. Currently Jon is partners in several IOM companies throughout the southern United States. 

The primary company is named Synaptic Resources and has offices in Oklahoma, Texas and Florida. This company is involved in monitoring more than 400 surgeries per month on average. Jon has extensive company commercialization experience and vast experience in hospital contract negotiations as well as sales to neuro, ortho, vascular, ENT and Urologic surgeons across the country.

Jann Bonfils-Rasmussen
Co-founder & VP of Sales and Marketing

Jann is an experienced medical executive with over 30 years of International and Domestic Marketing experience in sophisticated medical capital equipment and related disposables including: Urodynamic systems for evaluation of the Lower Urinary Tract, Neurodiagnostic systems (EMG, EP, EEG, IONM, Polysomnography, TCD) for evaluation of the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems.

Jann has held senior positions with several of the leading clinical diagnostic device manufactures in the field of clinical electro diagnostics and intra-operative neurological monitoring and has been involved in taking several related products from concept to commercial launch.

Jann’s strengths include: solid technical and medical knowledge in the field of neuro diagnostics, urodynamics and intra-operative neurological monitoring.

Jim Stone
Chief Financial Officer

Jim Stone has extensive experience in the management of assets, negotiation of business transactions, legal structuring, tax, and risk management for multiple projects in diversified business areas. He previously worked in the big four accounting firms of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young where he worked with high net worth individuals & families providing family office type services and assisting with the management of investment assets.

Jim is co-founder of a successful finance company in Austin, TX. He was also a past board member of a local community bank. Mr. Stone is a licensed CPA (in the State of Texas) & Certified Financial Planner.  Jim graduated from Illinois State University with a Bachelors Degree in Finance and attended Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville for post-graduate education in accounting.

Kevin Embree
Chief Marketing Officer

With over 20 years experience, Kevin has worked with many of the leading Internet companies in the world including eBay, PayPal, Skype, Craigslist and HomeAway.

Kevin also serves on the Metro Board of Directors for the YMCA of Austin and several startup advisory boards including Rallyhood, ustudio and Caddie Central.  Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin.

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Fast, accurate, and easy to use real time nerve monitoring. The standard of care across multiple surgical specialties for open surgery is now available to laparoscopic and robotic surgeons. The ProPep Nerve Monitoring System is the world’s first real time nerve monitoring system specifically designed for use during laparoscopic & robotic surgery.