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Glen Mella

CEO & Co-Founder

Glen Mella

CEO & Founder

Glen Mella has focused his career on delivering rapid business growth, profitability, and significant investor returns in the high-tech arena, including raising $200 million in investment capital. His experience in executive leadership, product management, marketing communications, consumer retail and online channels, and global business development has allowed him to build and lead successful teams in numerous startups and multinational organizations, including Cypher, Control4, WordPerfect, Novell, Found.com, Triton PCS, and Frito-Lay/PepsiCo. Mella currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for Connected Home Living, with prior Board positions at Imagine Learning and InMoment, as well as serving as a Trustee for the Utah Technology Council and as Chair of UTC’s CEO Peer-to-Peer Forum. Mella received an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School and a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University.

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Milton L. Lee, Axcend Co-Founder

Milton L. Lee, Ph.D.

Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder

Milton L. Lee, Ph.D.

Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder

During his nearly 45-year career, Dr. Lee has become one of the world’s foremost experts in separation science, while also becoming a serial inventor and entrepreneur. Most recently, he invented the world’s first portable gradient capillary high-performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC), the Axcend Focus LC® from Axcend®. Previously, he also invented and commercialized three other scientific instruments:

  • A supercritical fluid chromatograph (Lee Scientific);
  • A time-of-flight mass spectrometer (Sensar); and
  • A portable gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (Torion).

Dr. Lee has authored/co-authored over 590 scientific publications, delivered over 500 technical present­a­tions and has over 20 patents to his credit. Additionally, he has received over 25 prestigious industry awards/recognitions during his 40-plus years as a professor at Brigham Young University. Dr. Lee received a doctorate in Analytical Chemistry from Indiana University, a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Utah, and completed post-doctoral research in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Brandon Fugal

Board Member & Co-Founder

Brandon Fugal

Board Member & Co-Founder

Brandon Fugal is Chairman of Colliers International in Utah and was recognized in 2016 as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Western Region). He has also been historically recognized at #1 Agent Globally for Coldwell Banker Commercial and Executive of the Year. Prior to selling CBC Advisors to Colliers International in 2018, Fugal built CBC Advisors into the largest commercial real estate firm headquartered in the Intermountain West, with over 500 professionals in 30 offices across the country. Having negotiated over $6 billion in commercial real estate transactions, he has helped launch and establish many of the largest developments in the Intermountain West. For the past decade Fugal has served on the Utah Valley University Foundation Board, as well as on the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce Board and Executive Roundtable. He also represents some of the largest companies and developments in the Rocky Mountain region.

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Christopher Lee, MD

Board Member & Co-Founder

Christopher Lee, MD

Board Member & Co-Founder

Christopher M. Lee, MD is a radiation oncologist that has actively pursued basic science and clinical research throughout his career. He has presented his research at national and international research meetings, and has authored numerous publications in top medical journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), The International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology and Physics (IJROBP), and CANCER. He is also a co-inventor on multiple issued and pending medical device patents focused on individualize radiation treatment delivery.

Dr. Lee graduated cum laude in Biochemistry from Brigham Young University, and he received his MD with Distinction in Research from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He subsequently completed four additional years of specialty training in Radiation Oncology at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital and University of Utah Medical Center.

Dr. Lee is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington and is also a Clinical Associate Professor at Washington State University (WSU) Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. He enjoys teaching and mentoring medical students and residents in ongoing clinical and research projects. Dr. Lee has also served on the International Elekta Gamma Knife Perfexion/ICON Advisory Group and is the Research Director for Gamma Knife of Spokane.

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Brent Knudsen

Board Member

Brent Knudsen

Board Member

Brent Knudsen is Managing Partner and founder of Partnership Capital Growth, a leading merchant bank focused on healthy living, healthcare, and values-focused businesses. He is also a founding partner in KC LLC, an early stage investor focused on “change the world” businesses. Prior to founding Partnership Capital Growth in 2006, Brent was an original partner at North Castle Partners, a leading private equity firm targeting investments in healthy living. Prior to joining North Castle in 1997, Brent invested in and ran a number of growth companies in the healthy living arena including GolfWeb (sold to CBS Sportsline), Full Force (sold to Specialized Bicycles) and Newport Surf Company (sold to Pacific Eyes & T’s). From 1985 to 1994, Brent served as the original Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Price Club and Costco Wholesale prior to, during, and after the merger of the two companies. During his tenure, the company grew from a small San Diego retailer to an international business with over $25B in revenue (over $150B today). From 1983 to 1985, Brent was a senior consultant with Bain & Company, where he focused primarily on health care. He received his Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center, graduated magna cum laude with Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and English from the University of Utah; he also attended Harvard Law School and Brigham Young University.

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Curtis B. Hill

Board Member

Curtis B. Hill

Board Member

 

During his executive and financial management career of over 35 years, Curtis B. Hill has developed and managed annual budgets of up to $1.2 billion that covered 12,000 employees based at close to 100 U.S. locations. Most recently, Curtis served for 12 years as Chief Financial Officer of Imagine Learning, an education technology company, where he was the initial lead investor in the company’s start-up and early growth phases. He was also a member of the company’s board of directors.   

Previously, Curtis spent over 20 years in the airline and general aviation industry, including  

  • 16 years with Northwest Airlines (NWA), and
  • Several years with Woodland Aviation (Beechcraft dealer and service center, charter operator, and private aircraft management company), as well as with Cessna Finance, a division of Cessna Aircraft Company.

Specific roles during his time with NWA included  

  • Controller for its domestic operations at ~100 U.S. airports, plus 
  • Station management for Philadelphia International Airport, Reno-Tahoe International Airport, and Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport with over 350 daily departures.  

  

Curtis received his MB

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