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Yeah, that's a great question. So, you know, I have been in the field of genetics and genomics for most of the last two decades, and I kind of came into that a little bit e don't know both by life experiences, which I'm happy to elaborate on and a little bit of luck, I guess A swell. But I am so passionate about what I dio that I have been kind of systematically tackling how we can bring precision medicine to more patients over time. And I found it Gino Medical about four years ago. Really, with the vision of solving a lot of the service delivery challenges that exist to be able to better understand, you know which patients would benefit what test is needed, and then how to interpret and use the resulting information to guide clinical care. And so a lot of the, um, you know, kind of my inspiration for Gino Medical came because prior to this, I was the chief commercial officer and then the chief strategy officer at a leading molecular diagnostic testing company. Invite a And so I saw from that vantage point where the market was headed and what was needed And then I found it, You know, medical to really help solve. You know what I saw? I was kind of the next set of challenges that needed to be tackled to bring precision medicine forward.You know, I have been a long time entrepreneur, and this is actually the seventh company that I have started. And so a lot of my early life experiences, you know, just kind of shape to where I am now. And just prior to this, I was helping to build a molecular diagnostic testing company called in Vitae, and it became clear to me while there that actually the biggest challenge in bringing forward genetics and genomics to more patients is tackling a lot of service delivery issues. So I founded, you know, medical to do just that and to really bridge the care gap that exists today by helping you know physicians understand which patients would benefit which genetic test is needed, and then how to interpret and use the resulting information to guide clinical care.
So I think that's always a critical item to know. Before you become an entrepreneur. It's sort of the Why do you exist? Why are you here? And you know what are you solving? In our case, the number one pain point we solve is that the vast majority of patients who would benefit from genetics and genomics are not getting that care. Today. We're just There's a huge care gap. There's too few clinicians who are knowledgeable in the field. The field has moved so quickly that the standard of care is typically not accessible for most patients. And so Gino Medical really exists to break down. Those barriers were creating ease of access to patients everywhere, and we're bringing genomic based medicine to patients currently in all 50 states in the US, with aims to expand internationally.
sure. So I said, I'm a long time entrepreneur and you know, when you start a company, you know, really, in this case, I had to exceptional co founders. So my co founder, Dr Randy Scott, who's a real visionary in precision medicine and has been in the field for more than two decades on then my second co founder is Dr Robert Green, and he's a leading medical geneticist at Harvard Medical School and bring him in Women's Hospital. Onda has led a lot of N I H grants regarding what does it mean to sequence individuals and use the resulting information. So it was really the three of us that were kind of coming together with the ideation of, you know, what should the company be? How do we think about, um, you know, just launching and getting started and having been a long time entrepreneur myself and some of my my co founder, Randy Scott, had experience and kind of going from starting point. Teoh. You know, how do you start to assemble and build the team? And how do you think about what you're creating is a company on, but it takes time, but I would say within, you know, sort of those three months we had incorporated and, you know, founded the company and did a seed round of financing and hired, You know, the basic team that was gonna helped to get us started. So we came a long way just the first few months.