Management Team

David B. Camp

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, CorMatrix Cardiovascular

David Camp is Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of CorMatrix. As a founding member of the company, David has an extensive history as an entrepreneurial executive in the medical device field, with a particular focus on cardiovascular device markets. He has a proven and successful track record of introducing new technologies, developing successful sales distribution networks and establishing loyal physician user networks. David has more than 20 years experience in the medical device field including working with St. Jude Medical, Medtronic, SciMed Life Systems (purchased by Boston Scientific), American Edwards Corp. (AME), U.S. Surgical, and Smith Kline Pharmaceutical.

Notably, David was one of the original sales and marketing team members responsible for the launch of the angiographic division of AME. He was also one of the original four sales representatives hired in 1987 to launch angioplasty technology nationwide for SciMed Life Systems. During his nine year tenure with SciMed, his team was responsible for growing sales from zero to over $350 million.

Beecher Lewis

President and Chief Operating Officer, CorMatrix Cardiovascular

Beecher Lewis is President and Chief Operating Officer of CorMatrix.  Since the company’s inception, Beecher has overseen the day-to-day operations of the Company. With more than 20 years of experience in sales and marketing of medical surgical products, Beecher has a keen understanding of how to build strategic businesses, establish corporate operations and deliver innovative and meaningful technology to physicians.

He held leadership positions at Harbor Medical Devices, Smith & Nephew Richards, Implex Corp. (acquired by Zimmer Holdings Inc.), Orthopaedic BioSystems Ltd. (acquired by Smith & Nephew) and Regeneration Technologies, Inc. where he gained valuable insights into developing key partnerships, setting up initial operations, and expediting the development and introduction of sales and marketing networks.

Beecher also previously served as Director of Sales and Marketing at The Alabama Tissue Center, cardiac division of Regeneration Technologies Inc., where he established and executed a novel, nationwide and independent distribution network to promote the company’s cardiovascular tissues including heart valves, blood vessels and non-valved conduits. 

Robert G. Matheny, MD

Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer and Scientific Advisory Board Director, CorMatrix Cardiovascular

Dr. Robert Matheny is the Chief Scientific Officer for CorMatrix Cardiovascular. As a Cardiothoracic surgeon and distinguished pioneer of minimally invasive cardiac surgical procedures, Dr. Matheny has worked with ECM materials for cardiovascular applications since 1993 and is co-inventor on several of the Purdue ECM patents.

Dr. Matheny did his undergraduate studies at the University of Oklahoma and Baylor University, completed his MD at the University of Texas, performed his Surgical residency at Scott and White Hospital, Texas A&M University, and completed his Cardiothoracic fellowship at Ohio State University. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Matheny worked with a number of medical device companies as a consultant in off-pump heart surgery, atrial fibrillation, robotics and ventricular support devices, including CardioThoracic Systems, Medtronic, Embolex, Amed Systems, Guidant, AFx and Corazon. He published numerous articles and chapters and holds patents for many medical devices. 

John C. Thomas, Jr.

Chief Financial Officer and Secretary, CorMatrix Cardiovascular

John Thomas is the Chief Financial Officer of CorMatrix and has been with the Company since its inception. John brings a wealth of experience working with start-up medical device companies and has more than 34 years experience in a variety of financial and accounting positions, with the last 23 years spent in the medical, pharmaceutical and device fields. 

He has extensive experience in the capital markets, having been in the role of CFO for eight companies that went public during his tenure, six of those being in the medical space (Cytrx Corporation, Cytrx Biopool, Medicis Pharmaceutical, EntreMed, MiMedx Group, and Dara BioSciences). 

John is a graduate of the University of Virginia, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and the Financial Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Walker School, a private pre-K through 12th grade school.   

Michael J. Billig

Vice President, Regulatory, Quality and Clinical (Consultant), CorMatrix Cardiovascular

Mike Billig, CEO of Experien Group, LLC, oversees all regulatory, quality and clinical needs for CorMatrix. Mike began his career in the medical device industry 35 years ago with Medtronic. His entire career has been involved with quality, regulatory, clinical research and general management of medical device companies.

Prior to co-founding Experien Group in 2003, he worked for over two decades in executive-level positions at Converge Medical, Timi3 Systems, CardioThoracic Systems and Cardiometrics. Mike’s role in these early stage start-up companies was to provide overall leadership and strategic direction as well as to successfully execute critical regulatory and clinical programs. He also worked for a number of other successful companies including Guidant, Oximetrix, Abbott and Syntex.

Throughout his career, Mike secured regulatory approvals for hundreds of medical device products across the U.S., Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Europe. He has been involved with a variety of product areas including sterile disposable products and electronic instruments. As a former industry executive and as an advisor to client companies at Experien Group, Mike has been instrumental with multiple successful IPOs, as well as substantial fundraising and corporate acquisitions. Mike has a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology from the University of Minnesota.