Meet our team

Lou Basenese joined ENDRA's board of directors in 2020. Basenese, 42, is the Founder and Chief Analyst of Disruptive Tech Research, LLC, an independent equity research and advisory firm focused exclusively on disruptive technology companies that has served the investment management community since June 2014. Since 2005, Basenese has also managed The Basenese Group, LLC, a consulting business focused on communications and business development for private and public small and microcap businesses. Mr. Basenese holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida. He is also a former Series 7 and Series 66 license holder.

Anthony DiGiandomenico joined ENDRA’s board of directors in 2013. A co-founder of MDB Capital Group LLC, DiGiandomenico focuses on corporate finance and capital formation for growth-oriented companies. He has participated in all areas of corporate finance including private capital, public offerings, PIPEs, business consulting and strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions.

DiGiandomenico has also worked on a wide range of transactions for growth-oriented companies in the biotechnology, nutritional supplements, manufacturing and entertainment industries. Prior to forming MDB Capital Group LLC in 1997, Mr. DiGiandomenico served as president and CEO of the Digian Company, a real estate development company.

DiGiandomenico holds an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor’s in finance from the University of Colorado.

Michael Harsh joined ENDRA’s board of directors in 2015. He has 36 years’ experience in healthcare technology, focused on diagnostic imaging. Harsh was most recently GE Healthcare’s vice president and chief technology officer, leading its global science and technology organization and research and development teams in diagnostics, healthcare IT and life sciences.

In 2004, Harsh was named global technology leader—Imaging Technologies Lab at the GE Global Research Center, where he led the research for imaging technologies across the company as well as the research associated with computer visualization/image analysis and superconducting systems. He led the Engineering division for GE Industrial and Enterprise Solutions from 2006 to 2009. Harsh was named an officer of General Electric Company in November 2006. He is a co-founder and current chief product officer of Terapede Systems Inc., a digital x-ray detector startup, a member of the board of directors of FloDesign Sonics, Inc., a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Phoenix Nuclear Labs, LLC and a consultant to start-ups in the medical device industry.

Harsh is a graduate of Marquette University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He holds numerous U.S. patents in the field of medical imaging and instrumentation. In 2008, Harsh was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows for his significant contributions to the medical and biological engineering field.

Alexander Tokman joined ENDRA’s board of directors in 2008. He is currently CEO-In-Residence at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). From 2006 to 2017 he served as president, chief executive officer and a director of Microvision, Inc., a publicly traded laser beam scanning projection and imaging company.

Previously, Tokman completed a 10+ year tenure as an executive with GE Healthcare, where he led several global businesses, most recently as a general manager of its Global Molecular Imaging and Radiopharmacy multi-technology business unit from 2003 to 2005. Between 1995 and 2003, Tokman served in various leadership roles at GE Healthcare, where he led the definition and successful commercialization of several product segments, including PET/CT, which generated over $500 million of revenue within the first three years of its launch. From 1989 to 1995, Mr. Tokman served as development programs lead and a head of industry and regional development at Tracor Applied Sciences.

Tokman has both a master’s and a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He is a certified Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Black Belt and Master Black Belt and as one of General Electric Company’s Six Sigma pioneers, he drove the quality culture change across GE Healthcare in the late 1990s.

Dr. Jonathan Rubin is the Martel Collegiate Professor of Radiology and section head for Ultrasound and Abdominal Interventional Radiology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Dr. Rubin has over 200 peer-reviewed publications, over 125 invited presentations and 10 patents. In 2005 he was awarded the University of Michigan Medical School Innovation Award. In 2007 he won the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine Joseph H. Holmes Clinical Pioneer Award. In 2011 he received the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Lawrence Mack Lifetime Achievement Award. From 1979 to 1984, Dr. Rubin was the director of the Section of Body Computed Tomography and Ultrasound Imaging in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Rubin received a bachelor’s in chemistry from the University of Utah. He received an M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in biophysics and theoretical biology from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Jing Gao is currently associate professor of ultrasound at Rocky Vista University in Ivins, Utah. Dr. Gao is also an adjunct assistant research professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, N.Y.

Dr. Gao brings over 30 years of clinical and research experience in abdominal ultrasound, in both the United States and China. Besides her post at Rocky Vista, Dr. Gao is also deputy president and guest professor at the Dalian University International Institute of Medical Imaging in China.

Dr. Gao has numerous peer reviewed publications in the areas of liver, spleen and kidney diseases and quantitative ultrasound imaging. Her numerous honors and professional affiliations include being named one of China’s Top 100 Ultrasound Physicians by the Chinese Association of Medical Imaging Technology, and she was appointed as the ambassador for research & education collaboration between the American institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and Chinese Ultrasound Doctor’s Association in April 2019.

She is a fellow of the Chinese Association of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, a fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and an editorial board member of Clinical Imaging (Elsevier) and Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (Elsevier).

Dr. Gao completed her medical education at Changchun and Dalian Medical Colleges in China.