Speaker Profile

Biography
John is a creative, authentic, appropriately irreverent and passionate innovator with deep-domain knowledge and experience in clinical sciences, medical device product development, regulatory and quality systems development and user-centric innovation processes. He founded Asher Orion Group LLC in April 2021 as an independent advisory and strategy firm specialized in helping digital health innovators (industrial and academic) from product concept to market introduction with a special focus helping clients build Software as A Medical Device augmented with machine learning and AI methods. John spent 20+ years in the Lifesciences industry working in medical device, healthcare IT and pharma sectors holding multiple roles of increasing complexity. Most recently, he held the role Chief Scientist of Informatics Research at GE Healthcare. He also worked at Bayer Healthcare, MEDRAD Inc. and as an independent contractor. He is inventor or co-inventor on 38 issued US Patents in addition to publishing and being an invited speaker.