Ted Mosler
President and Chief Technical Officer
Ted is an established inventor with 30+ issued US patents, multiple foreign patents issued, and other US and foreign patents pending. Prior to founding Gilero in 2002, Ted held various design engineering and product development team leadership roles with Bionix Medical Technologies as well as with the Alaris Medical Systems (now Carefusion). Ted’s device development experience is wide ranging, however he has noted expertise in drug access and delivery systems, infection control, wound care, and urology products. These experiences have led to multiple new product introductions and industry recognitions, including a Medical Design Excellence Gold Award and being named Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry magazine’s 100 Notable in 2004. Ted obtained his Professional Engineer license from the state of North Carolina, has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toledo, and an MBA from North Carolina State University (“NC State”) with a concentration in Technology Commercialization. Ted remains involved with NC State as a guest lecturer in the Biomedical and Industrial Engineering departments, and the College of Management’s entrepreneurship programs.
Tim Hopper
Chief Operating Officer
Tim is an accomplished operations, sales, and marketing executive. His strategic planning and implementation experience extends seventeen years over a range of market sectors including anesthesia, enteral feeding, GI, respiratory, surgical, thermometry, urology, vascular access, and wound care products. Prior to joining Gilero, Tim held roles of increasing responsibility in sales, marketing and executive leadership within Teleflex Medical and Covidien. He was a key player in various product portfolio management activities and new product commercialization efforts. Tim earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Massachusetts and attained his master’s degree (MBA) in entrepreneurial studies from Babson College. Tim remains active in various local life science programs and charitable events.
Kristin Benokraitis
Director of Quality/Programs
Kristin’s engineering background features a strong, technical foundation for her role at Gilero. Her previous roles in manufacturing facilities across several industries have given her hands-on experience in high-volume manufacturing environments. Prior to working at Gilero, Kristin began her professional career at Allied Signal (now Honeywell) working as a process engineer at a manufacturing plant making polymer resin used in the automotive industry for applications, such as tire cord, seatbelts and airbags. At Allied Signal, she was certified as a Six Sigma Greenbelt, and underwent Six Sigma Blackbelt and Design for Six Sigma training, which focused on design for manufacturing. Following her work at Allied Signal, Kristin transitioned to the medical device industry and held various roles in quality engineering and new product development at Boston Scientific’s North America R&D headquarters. While at Boston Scientific, she gained extensive experience with cardiovascular balloon catheters and drug eluting stents, by supporting manufacturing commercialized product, as well as developing next-generation products. Kristin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Andrew Corson
Director of Engineering
Andrew has a technical leadership role at Gilero with a proven track record of commercializing new medical devices. After developing manufacturing processes for a wide variety of emerging technology medical devices for several years, his career path was deliberately steered towards device design while playing a pivotal role in a successful product startup. This provided him a broad and practical view of the product life cycle since design and manufacturing for success should never be separate functions. Andrew began his career as a Project and Validation Engineer with Mallinckrodt, focused on both biological and Biopharma manufacturing. He later moved into medical devices with Angiosonics where he was the Manufacturing Manager responsible for multiple design iterations of a novel ultrasonic device used to break up blood clots. Andrew combined his pharmaceutical and medical device experiences as a Project Engineer working for Bespak where he led the manufacturing development efforts in the commercialization of new respiratory products. Prior to joining Gilero, Andrew directed barbed suture manufacturing development for Quill Medical for which he is a named inventor on a related patent. Andrew graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
Gilero Development Team
Gilero employs a very diverse team of best-in-class engineering and product development talent including biomedical, industrial, chemical, mechanical, and textile engineers, as well as industrial designers. Our team has broad experience with world class life science companies in a variety of biomedical market sectors that cover products used by physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, and patients. Many of our professional team members hold advanced degrees.
