MANAGEMENT TEAM
ActiveO, LLC is led by Jim Rybicki and Dr. A.J. Joshi. Jim Rybicki brings extensive medical device sales and marketing executive experience. Dr. Joshi is an accomplished scientist, engineer, and business executive.
Jim Rybicki
Managing Partner
Jim has a successful track record in the medical device industry as both a senior executive and an independent investor. His medical device career began as a sales and marketing manager with Johnson & Johnson and Bausch & Lomb in vision care. Following the sale of Hydrocurve, a start-up contact lens company, to Revlon in 1980, Jim joined intraocular lens startup IOPTEX Research. As one of four principals, Jim led IOPTEX to dramatic growth and a subsequent purchase by Smith & Nephew, Inc., for $236 million.
In 1992, after fulfilling his obligations to Smith & Nephew, Jim focused on private investments in microcap medical device companies. Jim’s emphasis has been on orthopedic and ophthalmology device companies, many of which he has served as a board member.
A. J. Joshi, PhD
Managing Partner
Dr. A.J. Joshi has enjoyed a distinguished career as a scientist, entrepreneur, and business manager. He earned his PhD in Materials Science from Northwestern University in 1972 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State from 1972 to 1973. His Bachelor of Engineering degree in Metallurgical Engineering was received from Pune University in 1966.
Dr. Joshi has been highly successful in developing technology companies. He was the CEO and sole stockholder of Ceramatec, Inc., a company he took over in 2000 prior to its purchase by the Coors family in 2008.
Dr. Joshi is the recipient of 75 U.S. patents and has 40 patents pending. He was awarded India’s first National Small Business Entrepreneurial Award in 1983 for his role in developing a button-cell battery company. Utah also awarded Dr. Joshi with its Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology in 2003 to recognize his contributions to Utah’s high-tech industry.
MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD
The ActiveO medical advisory team is led by two internationally known interventional neuroradiologists. Dr. Kieran Murphy and Dr. Mario Muto have excellent academic and clinical credentials in minimally invasive spine therapies.
Kieran Murphy, MD, FRCPC, FSIR
Medical Advisor
Dr. Kieran Murphy is an interventional neuroradiologist and currently serves as Professor, Vice Chair, and Deputy Chief of the University of Toronto Department of Medical Imaging. This program is the largest radiology-training program in the world with 135 residents and fellows.
Prior to his appointment to the University of Toronto in 2008, Dr. Murphy was at Johns Hopkins University were he was the leader of the Division of Interventional Neuroradiology for 10 years. In addition to his clinical work, he has also filed 40 medical device patents, started five medical device companies in Europe and the United States, and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He also served as the scientific chair for the 2009 Society of Interventional Radiology meeting.
Dr. Murphy graduated medical school at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1986. He completed a radiology residency at the University of Michigan followed by an interventional neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Geneva in 1997.
Mario Muto, MD
Medical Advisor
Dr. Mario Muto resides in Naples, Italy, where he is the Professor and Chair of Radiology at Ospidale Carderelli. He is recognized as one of Europe’s leading interventional neuroradiologists and has treated over 2,000 patients with herniated disks using innovative minimally invasive, nonsurgical therapies. Dr. Muto has written over 60 peer-reviewed papers on minimally invasive, nonsurgical treatments to relieve low back pain as well as other topics related to treatment of the spine.
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