MDG Executive Team

 

MDG Executive Consultant & Business Advisors Team

  • Shane Batson, BA, BS - Sales & Marketing Consultant
  • Adam Boris, MBA, MSEE, BSEE - Technology & Business Consultant
  • Jennifer J. Doane, BS - Retail Merchandising & Operations Consultant
  • Lynne Dougherty, BS - Sales Consultant
  • David Edwards, JD - Legal & Corporate Consultant
  • Gavin T. Hertzberg, BA - Sales & Marketing Consultant
  • Holly Koechner, BS - Sales & Marketing Consultant
  • Gustavo Larsen, PhD, BS - Clinical & Medical Consultant
  • Jeffrey M. Marks, BA - Medical Business Consultant
  • Jonas Moses, PhD, PA, BS - Clinical & BioEngineering Consultant
  • Luis Nunez, PhD, MBA, MS, BS - Clinical & Medical Consultant
  • Dante A. Odoni, MBA, JD, CPA - Legal & Financial Consultant
  • Michael Pechony, BS - Financial Consultant
  • O. Toni Randle, BA - Technology & Education Consultant
  • Rakesh Rawlley, MA, BA - Engineering & Manufacturing Consultant
  • Kapil D. Singh, CFA, MBA, BS - Financial & Business Consultant
  • Chinmay A. Singh, MBA, MSIE, BTME - Consultant
  • Robert W. Taylor, MS, MA, BA - Education & Training Consultant
  • Monica Wagner, BS - Human Capital & Executive Search Consultant
  • Gary Wakeford, MBA, BS - Medical Business Consultant
  • Igor Zhizhin, MBA, MA, BA - Financial & Business Consultant
 

Vik Malik, BS

Senior Managing Director

Vik Malik, 'Senior Managing Partner' of The MALiX Development Group, has over 15 years of collective healthcare industry experience with growing market-share & sales revenues, increasing valuations and maximizing earnings for companies specializing in the: Medical Technology, Biopharmaceutical, Medical-Diagnostic and Healthcare Information Technology sectors with penetrating new & emerging healthcare markets.

Furthermore, Mr. Malik has extensive consulting experience with building customized sales & marketing platform solutions and developing supporting infrastructures for start-up, growth & distressed Healthcare companies. Mr. Malik’s main areas of focus are:

  • Turnaround Projects and Workout Deals
  • Capital Fundraising & Investor Relations
  • Contract Negotiations and Risk-Mitigation
  • Organizational Infrastructure Development
  • Due-Diligence Market Research & Analysis
  • Product Development & Commercialization
  • Sales Organization Design & Sales Training
  • Advisory Board Recruitment & Development
  • Brand Management, Advertising & Promotions
  • Global Marketing and Public & Client Relations
  • New Business Development & Product Launches
  • Distribution Channel Management & Operations
  • Strategic Partnerships (joint-marketing, co-licensing)
  • Strategic Business Planning & Tactical Implementation
  • M&A Strategy (LBO, divestitures/spin-offs, consolidation/integration models)

In addition, Mr. Malik holds key medical-specialty & healthcare expertise in: Biomedical & RF Technologies, Orthopaedic Joint Reconstruction & Spine Surgery, Surgical Oncology, General Surgery, Podiatric Surgery, Medical Oncology/Hematology, Interventional Radiology, Urology, Pharmacology, Virology, Infectious Disease, Critical Care, Internal Medicine, OTC consumer products & Retail Marketing, Nutraceuticals, Biopharmaceuticals, Nanotechnology, Surgery Centers & Imaging Clinics, Medical-Diagnostics, Hospital & Medical Practice-Management and Healthcare IT solutions.

Mr. Malik has also secured an elite national & international ‘World-Class’ medical professional and association network base (Medical & Executive Advisory Boards); and has launched over 30+ new healthcare products & services in the U.S., E.U. and Asian markets.

Furthermore, Mr. Malik currently holds a ‘SVP of Strategy & Business Development’ post with BioTarget Nanotech; and has been appointed a ‘Board of Director’ position with the GreenWorld Venture Fund. He also serves as an ‘Executive Advisory Board Member’ with Investment Street Capital and Notopos Medical Innovations as well as on numerous other advisory boards & councils for several start-up companies and non-for-profit organizations. In addition, Mr. Malik serves as a regular-guest with an In Time T.V. segment to discuss ongoing emerging medical-technologies & healthcare start-up strategies with the “On the Edge” weekly medical talk-show. Mr. Malik is also a member of the Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization (iBIO) trade group and served as a ‘Track Co-Chair’ for the ‘BIO 2006’ International Conference.

Mr. Malik received a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing with minor studies in Physiology and Nutrition from Southern Illinois University. He also completed an internship with Northwestern Mutual Life and was a Project Director with the American Marketing Association.

Prior to founding The MALiX Development Group in 2005, Mr. Malik held various positions in Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Management with:

TissueLink Medical Serono Laboratories Spectrum Brands
RITA Medical Systems Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Sanofi-Oncology Biotech Automatic Data Processing
 

N. Joseph Espat, MD, MS, FACS

Medical Director
 

Peter J. Lombardo, BA

Technology Director
 

Kenneth A. Stein, MD

Clinical Director
 

Dick Fischer, MBA, BS

FISCHER-RIDGE ASSOCIATES, LLC

Dick Fischer, CEO of Fischer-Ridge Associates, is a career Supply-Chain Executive with extensive global experience in the United States, European, South/Latin American and Asian markets. Mr. Fischer has actual working commercial leadership experience in over 25 countries with numerous domestic & international suppliers and organizations, ranging from small to large scales. Mr. Fischer's expertise in envisioning attainable supply chain/procurement strategies and leading strategic implementations has routinely resulted in increased organizational valuations. And, developing innovative & effective sourcing, outsourcing, third-party manufacturing, international licensing programs as well as the actual commercialization of innovation, new technology or existing products have been common themes for Mr. Fischer's career track record. In addition, he also has expertise in the direct as well as the in-direct administrative one-time sourcing challenges; with identifying the needs for efficient sourcing processes and cost saving/cost avoidance programs for immediate & sustained cost improvements. Furthermore, Mr. Fischer has created his own consulting practice, Fischer-Ridge Associates, LLC; that provides supply-chain consultation and interim & project based management services to a wide-variety of national & international clients.

Dick Fischer also brings a "hands-on" approach to the supply-chain process, which enables him to assess the actual challenges of the client, the internal user and the external supplier community; as he works with cross-functional teams and managers to first create & improve performance and then solidify the ongoing measures for sustained results. Timely delivery of results creating workable & appropriate commercial relationships with "win-win" agreements & results; and permanently resolving problems and improving performance are the common results with Mr. Fischer's consultation services. Furthermore, Mr. Fischer's leadership style and management-processes strive to develop people & organizations to become self-sustaining, "state-of-the-art" entities.

Dick Fischer has a BS in Economics from the University of Richmond and an MBA from Seton Hall University as well as numerous executive educational credits including: Duke Fuqua Graduate Business School, Arizona State University in Supply-chain & Logistics and a Penn State University Six-Sigma certification. Furthermore, Fischer-Ridge, LLC is a Service-Disabled & Veteran-Owned Small Business.

 

Ken L. Malik, MA, BA

Director of Industrial Engineering & Logistics
 

Dinesh Rawlley, BS, CSD, LLB

Director of Information Technology

Dinesh Rawlley brings over 25 years of global information technology & business experience with demonstrated skills & accomplishments for applying technology as a means for business-process improvement. Throughout his impressive career, Mr. Rawlley has garnered extensive knowledge of IT strategic planning & execution, infrastructure management, applications deployment and program management through his senior-level management experience with Fortune 500 Consumer Goods and Healthcare companies. Furthermore, he has played an integral role in managing Supply-Chain process optimization, SOX compliance & FDA governance, RFID deployment, Trade Funds management and Product life-cycle management; while developing an ability for identifying IT-levers, to facilitate the resulting organizational change. Mr. Rawlley has served with distinction at: M&M Mars Corporation, Playtex Products, Tredegar Film Products, Massimo Zanetti Beverages, MedImmune and Astra-Zeneca Pharmaceuticals. In addition; Mr. Rawlley also holds extensive M&A experience of IT systems integration with the LBO's of multiple manufacturing plants, with an estimated total worth of over $200 million. And, he also has had senior-management oversight with the selection, design and implementation of multiple software packages (ERP, CRM, PLM;) with projects ranging from $3 million to $25 million. Furthermore, Mr. Rawlley has gained extensive experience in selling IT solutions to several "C-level" executives & organizations.

Dinesh Rawlley's continuous success with these projects, as well as numerous others, has positioned him in multiple senior-leadership positions from Vice-President to Chief Information Officer. For the past fifteen years, he has flourished in senior-management roles, directly-reporting to the senior-officer of his respective division. Mr. Rawlley has been proven to be an "energetic motivator" with the ability to generate excitement & enthusiasm, gain project-goal commitments, encourage others to be proactive and negotiate persuasively as well as mediate and solve internal & external conflicts. Mr. Rawlley's emphasis on leadership accountability and a "no-excuses" approach to management, has created dynamic & focused project teams; while fostering productive & efficient work environments. Furthermore, his "hands-on" IT leadership style galvanizes project teams to deliver: "on-time, on budget and on value," thereby maximizing value and profitability objectives. And, Mr. Rawlley's results-driven guidance enables him to improve & innovate clients' technology ventures and optimize business processes, by facilitating the change-management process.

In conclusion, Dinesh Rawlley's strategic & tactical achievements have routinely surpassed upper-managements' expectations and has also inspired colleagues attempting to rise in the management ranks. Furthermore, he is dedicated to only delivering focused & results-driven performance benchmarks in every endeavor he undertakes. Mr. Rawlley exhibits a unique ability to win over others with: powerful logic, real-world experience and interpersonal influence. Lastly, Dinesh Rawlley has been described by his superiors and subordinates as a "bold, yet pragmatic visionary and a astute technologist with the ability to speak the languages of business & technology, resulting in sensible, sound and effective IT strategy".