Meet Our Team
Management
J. Michael Redmond
President & CEO
Mr. Redmond has over 35 years commercial experience in medical device companies. Mr. Redmond held various sales and marketing positions at Abbott Laboratories, a multi-billion-dollar healthcare company. Mr. Redmond then went on to become the Director of Marketing and Business Development at KMC Systems Inc., now a leading private label developer and manufacturer of medical devices and instrumentation. Mr. Redmond helped grow the company from early stage to over $50M in revenue. KMC was sold to Elbit systems. Mr. Redmond then joined Bioject Inc as its VP of Sales and Marketing. Bioject was a medical device company specializing in unique drug delivery technologies. Mr. Redmond helped raise over $15M in capital, entered several licensing and distribution deals with major biotech and pharmaceutical companies growing the market cap of the company from under $10M to over $400M. Mr. Redmond has been CEO of Odyssey Health, Inc. since 2018.
Christine M. Farrell
Chief Financial Officer & Secretary
Christine M. Farrell joined Odyssey in April 2019 as a financial consultant serving as our Controller and Secretary and became Chief Financial Officer and Secretary in January 2021. From February 1997 to 2014, Ms. Farrell was Vice President of Finance for Bioject Medical Technologies Inc., a medical device company specializing in unique drug delivery technologies. Prior to joining Bioject, Ms. Farrell held accounting and financial management positions with Spar-Tek Industries, a manufacturer of high quality and cutting-edge technology for the plywood industry, and Action Machinery, a seller of new and used robotic machine tools and equipment. Ms. Farrell holds a B.A. degree in Accounting from the University of Washington and an M.B.A. from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
Board of Directors
Jerome H. Casey
Jerome H. Casey has been a Director since September 2019. Mr. Casey has been a leader in the life science industry for over 30 years. Mr. Casey served as a senior executive at Genzyme Corporation, a biotechnology company, from 1989 to 2011. Mr. Casey was the driver behind Genzyme’s commercial success in the diagnostics arena, building a $175 million business which Genzyme sold to Japan-based Sekisui Chemical in 2011. Mr. Casey then became the President and COO of the new entity, Sekisui Diagnostics, LLC, until the end of 2014. While President and COO, Mr. Casey established the strategic direction for the company; led the global organization, including the commercial, operations, research and development, finance, human resources, and legal functions; and achieved the annual and long-term financial objectives of the business. Since 2015, Mr. Casey has been actively involved in several life sciences ventures, both as an advisor and an investor, while serving on multiple Boards. Mr. Casey holds an M.B.A. degree in Finance and a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Connecticut.
John P. Gandolfo
John P. Gandolfo has been a Director since October 2019. Mr. Gandolfo has approximately 33 years of experience as a Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of multiple rapidly growing private and publicly held companies with a primary focus in the life sciences, healthcare and medical device areas. Mr. Gandolfo has had direct responsibility over capital raising, including five public offerings, financial management, mergers and acquisition transactions and SEC reporting throughout his professional career. Mr. Gandolfo serves as CFO of Eyenovia, Inc., a late-stage ophthalmic biopharmaceutical company, from January 2018 to present. Prior to this, Mr. Gandolfo was CFO of Xtant Medical Holdings, Inc., a biologics company, from July 2010 through September 2017. Prior to this, he served as the CFO for Progenitor Cell Therapy LLC from January 2009 to June 2010 and, before that, as CFO of Power Medical Interventions, Inc. from January 2007 to January 2009. Mr. Gandolfo was the CFO of Bioject Medical Technologies, Inc. prior to this. He was also the CFO of Capital Access Network, Inc., from 2000 through September 2001, and Xceed, Inc. from 1999 to 2000. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Gandolfo was CFO and COO of Impath, Inc. From 1987 through 1994, he was CFO of Medical Resources, Inc. Mr. Gandolfo received his B.A. degree in Business Administration from Rutgers University. Mr. Gandolfo is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Electrocore, Inc. and sits on their audit committee.
Ricky W. Richardson
Ricky W. Richardson has been a Director since May 2021. Mr. Richardson has over 30 years of experience as a global operations and quality leader. He possesses strong operations and quality experience that includes change management, multi-plant operations, financial acumen, supply chain/vendor management, strategic business development, start-up planning and execution, new product introductions, and lean deployment. His most recent positions included Corporate Director of Danaher Business Systems (“DBS”). From February 2008 to July 2011, Mr. Richardson was Director of Operations for Continuous Improvement for Stryker Orthopaedics, a multi-billion dollar global manufacturer of Orthopaedics. Prior to this, Mr. Richardson held various positions at Bioject Medical Technologies, Inc., Baxter Healthcare, and Texas Instruments. From 1984 to 1987, he was a Lieutenant, Field Artillery, with the U.S. Army. He holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY.
Scientific Advisory Board
James P. Kelly, MA, MD, FAAN, FANA
Dr. Kelly is the Executive Director of the Marcus Institute for Brain Health (MIBH) and Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. The MIBH is a specialized treatment program funded by the Marcus Foundation to care for US military Veterans with persistent symptoms of TBI. He is also National Director of the Gary Sinise Foundation Avalon Network TBI Medical Programs for which the MIBH serves as the clinical coordinating center.
His immediate past position was Director of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. As its founding Director, he led the creation of an innovative interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals who blended high-tech diagnosis and treatment with complementary and alternative medical interventions in a holistic, integrative approach to the care of US military personnel with the complex combination of TBI and psychological conditions such as post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety. In this role, Dr. Kelly was frequently called upon by leaders of the Military Health System in the Pentagon, the US Congress, the Department of Veterans Affairs and numerous military facilities in the continental US and abroad. He twice traveled to Afghanistan to advise and assist at military hospital programs and forward operating base medical units.
Military Advisory Board
James Linder
Jim Linder is a recognized leader in the world of Special Operations and Intelligence organizations as a high performing and skilled strategist. A US General Officer with over three decades of direct command leadership around the globe.
Originally from South Carolina, Jim graduated from Clemson University as a Distinguished Military Graduate. His service has taken him to over 71 countries across Europe, into South East Asia, throughout Africa and the Middle East, and Central and South America.
As a General Officer, he created new cutting-edge capabilities and accelerated the growth of highly skilled Afghan Special Forces. He also led and directed all US special operations across the African continent, while interacting with US interagency and African leaders to achieve US national security goals. He adeptly applied new ideas as commandant of the Army’s premier Center of Excellence for selecting and training Special Operations Forces and was the commander of all US and NATO special operations forces in combat in Afghanistan during a critical period of transition. Most recently, he achieved value-driven results managing a complex and agile organization of 80k persons with a $13.4B government operating budget as the Chief of Staff for US Special Operations Command.
Major General (retired) Linder is currently the President of Tenax Aerospace and has master’s degrees in International Relations from Webster University and National Security and Strategic Studies from the US Naval War College.
Paul Toolan
Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Paul Toolan joined the Army as a Private in 1986. Over the course of more than three decades in uniform, he has risen through the ranks and completed every elite school in the US Army. He is a Special Forces Airborne Ranger and started his Special Forces career as a Detachment Commander in 3rd Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg. He has held nearly a dozen leadership positions in multiple Special Forces Groups, including Detachment Commander, Company Executive Officer, Battalion Operations Officer, Support Company Commander, Company Commander, Group Operations Officer, Group Executive Officer, Battalion Commander, Chief of the Special Forces Training Division, and the Director of Operations at 1st Special Forces Command. He has worked at the National Counter-Terrorism Center as a Special Forces advisor and worked as a Special Forces consultant in the United States Army Special Operations Commander’s Initiatives Group. He last duty assignment was the Deputy Commander of the 1st Special Warfare Training Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where Green Berets are assessed, selected and trained.
Since retiring from military service, Paul has dedicated himself to helping Special Operators address the effects of life in Special Operations such as post-traumatic stress (PTS), traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Operator Syndrome (overstimulated sympathetic nervous system) by facilitating access to treatment innovations.
Timothy Szymanski
Vice Admiral (r) Szymanski has led and served in many Navy and Joint Special Operations assignments as a Navy Special Warfare Officer (SEAL) for over 36 years. He most recently served as the Deputy Commander for United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) after serving as the Commander of Naval Special Warfare (NSW). In both roles he was responsible for the manning, equipping, and training, and employment of Navy SEAL and joint special operations forces, of 11,000 and 73,000 uniformed and civilian personnel, respectively.
He has commanded a SEAL Team, Special Boat Team, a Squadron at a Special Mission Unit, and a Special Operations Joint Task Force. His recent assignments as a flag officer were Deputy Commander USSOCOM, Commander Naval Special Warfare Command, Assistant Commanding General Joint Special Operations Command and Deputy Commander of NATO Special Operations Component Command – Afghanistan. Szymanski attended the U.S. Naval Academy Preparatory School and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1985.
Keenly aware of the detrimental effects of invisible wounds on Force and Family Readiness, he established policy to cognitively baseline the entire Special Operations community as well as created initiatives to prevent, protect, recover, and enhance cognitive performance.