BioIDC has an impressive leadership team that brings together a comprehensive mix of industry and operational expertise .

    Sherif El-Harazi, M.D., M.P.H. - Founder & Board Chairman

    • Internationally recognized clinician, surgeon, researcher and educator
    • Founder and Medical Director of Lugene Eye Institute
    • Founder and President of Global Research Management (GRM)
    • Earned a Bachelor of Science and Medical degree from the University of Alexandria, Egypt
    • Completed a Residency of Ophthalmology, Fellowship as well as a Master of Public Health from the University of Texas, Houston 
    • Authored or co-authored numerous journal articles, abstracts and book chapters in medical research
    • Served as Principal Investigator in nearly 100 clinical trials and research projects
    • Lead investigator in multiple national clinical trials 
    • Serves as an advisor and medical monitor for major pharmaceutical companies worldwide

    Mitchell Berman - CEO

    • 35-year entertainment and technology media veteran
    • Managing Partner of Berman Strategic Advisors – focused on mentoring global entrepreneurs and managing early/mid-stage investments in cloud technologies, esports/games, OTT/digital entertainment, mobile commerce, social enterprise, and emerging technologies for education
    • Previously served in various senior management capacities with Home Box Office (HBO/Cinemax), E! Entertainment Television, Sky Network Television New Zealand, Galaxy Media/East Coast Pay TV (FOXTEL Australia), OpenTV, C-COR, and ZillionTV Corporation
    • Member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, an advisory board member and judge for the UCLA Social Enterprise Academy, a board member of the Silicon Beach Young Professionals  
    • Earned a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California (USC) and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

    Tony Karrer Ph.D. - CTO

    • Has been a CTO and technical advisor at early-stage startups to very large companies for more than 20 years  
    • Founded 3 companies, two of which are operating profitably and the other was sold for $58 million 
    • Founder/CEO of TechEmpower, a 30-person software development services company and is the Founder and CTO of Aggregage – a fast growing B2B media company that has over 1.5M subscribers 
    • Worked as a part-time CTO at over 25 different companies including as the original, part-time CTO at eHarmony helping them to get to a $110M financing in their 4th year 
    • Cofounder and lead organizer of the LA CTO Forum – the largest CTO professional organization in the US
    • Valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) and attended the University of Southern California (USC) as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Louise Wannier - Strategic Advisor

    • Chaired Boards of Directors and as CEO built companies in four different industries: Education Technology, Consumer Electronics, Information Management Software and Fashion/eCommerce
    • Has led the Strategic Market Development, Product innovation, Formation of key partnerships and strategic alliances and raised over $50 million in combined venture capital-equity financing 
    • Founded CEO Circle, a confidential forum for early-stage technology CEO’s
    • Founded MyShape the first Online Personal Shopping platform which grew to over 800K members, and partnered with over 200 fashion brands
    • Founded Enfish, Desktop and Enterprise software installed in over 2000 companies
    • Co-founder of Gemstar (makers of VCR Plus+ which established over 100M customers worldwide within five years, an IPO at $500M valuation, subsequently rising to market capitalization of $20B