Max Lyon
Principal at MedMax Consulting
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Lyon is a principal executive and entrepreneur with 25 years of CEO/COO leadership building and commercializing medical device, diagnostics, biotech and healthcare IT startups. He has co-founded or led nine companies, driving FDA-cleared products and multiple acquisitions—including market-leading MRI CADstream and the first FDA-cleared point-of-care cancer test—while repeatedly taking hands-on operating roles from fundraising to clinical trials. Max blends strategic market planning and business development with deep product commercialization experience, often stepping in as interim COO or CEO to scale teams and operations. He now runs MedMax Consulting, advising early-stage companies on commercialization, finance and clinical strategy, and recently led programs in gene therapy and cancer immunotherapy. Less obvious: he has a consistent track record of translating long-term clinical research and WHO-backed technologies into commercially viable products and exits. He holds a BA and MBA from Cornell and was Frost & Sullivan Northwest Healthcare Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Cornell University
Spanish
Github Skills (1)
cgal3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nTopology/OpenVolumeMesh
Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:35 commits in 10 months
jamiebk/OpenMesh_UE4
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year 5 months
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