Management Team
Daniel Sands
Founder, President and CEO
Dan brings 20+ years of comprehensive product development, sales, marketing, manufacturing and international business experience to the company, including leadership of three start-up operations and two acquisitions while he was associated with two major medical device manufacturers.
Dan’s drive and innovations in surgical instrumentation and delivery systems have provided accelerated business growth covering applications in over 20 surgical disciplines. Dan holds two utility patents and 14 pending patents in the field of surgical instrumentation delivery systems and RFID technology solutions.
Matt LaFontaine
Vice President, Engineering and Program Management
Matt brings more than 15 years of product development and program management experience to Solstice Medical. He has led engineering teams responsible for multi-year, multi-million-dollar programs in both commercial trucking and medical information systems.
Matt’s skills include defining and analyzing customer product requirements, product design, product testing and customer training. Matt holds a mechanical/aerospace engineering degree from the University of Dayton and a two commercial vehicle design patents.
Michael Westrick
Chief Technology Officer
Mike’s passion for innovation continues with over 30+ years experience in electronic systems design and corporate management. Mike has founded eight companies over the past 20 years and has intimate technical and management experience in high-tech electronics applications.
In the mid 1980s, Mike designed and developed high accuracy direction finding receivers and digital control hardware, digital RF memory, RF micro sensors and UHF microwave receivers for Magnavox Government and Industrial Electronics. In the early 1990s, Mike co-founded Innotek Inc. a high-tech design and manufacturing company that developed the underground wireless fencing and other high-tech pet training products.
Michael Quinn
Finance
Michael Quinn brings Solstice 30+ years of financial and operations management experience from a variety of public and private companies in the consumer products, industrial products and medical products markets.
As Chief Financial Officer for Invisible Technologies, Inc., Medisystems, StairMaster Health and Fitness Products and Lau Industries Michael led the process of raising new debt and equity to finance those businesses and to acquire and divest of various business units. As VP of Operations for Lau Industries and VP and General Manager of the Invisible Fence Brand, Michael led a number of internal and external strategic initiatives resulting in substantial revenue and profit growth.
©2012 Solstice Medical, LLC. All Rights Reserved.