Thomas Bruce,President and Chief Executive Officer
Prior to founding WDG, Mr. Bruce founded Environmental Transportation & Transmission Corp. (ET&T), which developed utility transportation routes utilizing the state highway systems and rail rights of way. Prior to ET&T, Mr. Bruce was employed at Paine Webber, Inc., specializing in public utilities and municipal bonds for seventeen years. Mr. Bruce has extensive experience working with local, state, and national governments in the restructuring and re-regulation of the public utilities industries. In 1972, Mr. Bruce started a sales and distribution company for a Canadian chemical manufacturing company expanding its territory throughout New England. The parent company appointed him Director of International Marketing and in 1976 named him President. Mr. Bruce is an alumnus of Boston University.
David Harrington,Managing Director, Engineering
As founder and president of SBT Technology, Mr. Harrington has designed and developed IV production and other healthcare facilities around the world. In addition to overseeing the design and construction of the facilities, Mr. Harrington actively participates in the training of the operators and has lectured worldwide on the subjects. Mr. Harrington has been involved with medical equipment and services since 1964, holds 9 patents, and has done medical equipment projects in some 44 countries since 1981. Mr. Harrington received a BS in Engineering and a BA in Education from McGill University, and a MBA from Babson. Mr. Harrington has also been awarded several honorary doctoral degrees.
Jonathan Man, Managing Director, Development
Mr. Man is the head of Commercial Development and co-founder of Pulmatrix Inc., a pharmaceutical company developing technologies to treat and mitigate the spread of contagious respiratory pathogens. Mr. Man has worked in technology evaluation for Fidelity Telecommunications Company and HBS International, now part of Solucient. An experienced entrepreneur, Mr. Man has also co-founded and advised a number of startups including Transvera and Apeiron Group International. Mr. Man is an alumnus of Harvard College, with an honors degree in Engineering.
Dr. Frances Dyro, MDDirector
Dr. Dyro is a practicing neurologist and Associate Professor at New York Medical College. She is a former Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Medical School at Harvard. Throughout her career, she has traveled extensively, donating her services to the poor in India one month per year for nine years while maintaining her practice and authoring countless professional articles and chapters including a comprehensive manual on electroencephalography. She is extremely involved in her community both in the arts and civic groups and has been elected Altrusa representative to the United Nations. Dr. Dyro received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in Neurophysiology from MIT.
Joseph Dyro, Ph.D.,Principal/Managing Director
Dr. Dyro is also President of the Biomedical Resource Group, Editor of the Journal of Clinical Engineering and Editor of the ACCE News. He lectures around the world on healthcare technology issues. He speaks on accident investigation, hospital safety, educational programs, human resource development, team building and creative problem solving. From 1972 to 1980, Dr. Dyro was Senior Biomedical Engineer at ECRI during which time he wrote the first United States Food and Drug Administration medical device standards on infant incubators, analyzed the hazards of apnea monitoring and assessed the risks of ethylene oxide sterilization in hospitals. A certified clinical engineer, he has served as a consultant for the World Bank and a volunteer for Project Hope. He consults for the FDA and many healthcare institutions on clinical engineering and medical device educational and safety issues. Dr. Dyro has been retained often as an expert in biomedical engineering. He received his Ph.D. and MS degrees in Biomedical Electronics Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a SB in Electrical Engineering from MIT.