Fred has been pioneering the development of life-saving technologies for more than 25 years. Fred is managing director of Incept LLC, a health sciences innovations accelerator, founded in 1998. Over the past 25 years, Incept has founded 25 medical companies – 16 with exits – for which Fred has served as an executive or a director. With more than 30 years of experience in the medical technology industry, he is an inventor or co-inventor of over 200 U.S. and worldwide patents, and his innovations impact more than one million patients per year. Fred also serves on the Board of Trustees at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan think tank dedicated to providing strategic national security insights to help decision makers chart a course toward a better world. He is also on the Board of Directors for Spirit of America, a nonprofit that promotes private-sector support for the safety and success of our troops and the local people they help, and a convening board member for Technology for America, a nonprofit for the promotion of innovation as a way to engage public-private dialogue that benefits all Americans. Fred holds a B.S. and a M.S. in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Tech University. Fred received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2023, which is given to immigrants who have shown an outstanding commitment to serving the United States either professionally, culturally, or civically. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 in recognition of his revolutionary ophthalmic, cardiovascular, and neurovascular interventions.