The Circadiance team is a collection of creative individuals who share a common devotion to improving health and quality of life for everyone, from newborn infants to older adults. We passionately develop, manufacture and market respiratory products for people with sleep-disordered breathing, who need non-invasive ventilation or who require monitoring.
Our Team
Circadiance’s organization is comprised of individuals that each brings a unique set of skills and life experiences to the team… We find strength in our diversity. Our leadership team is no different, as the following biographies will illustrate:
Management
David Groll, the founder and CEO, has developed, manufactured and sold medical devices for over 30 years. Before starting Circadiance, David held senior management positions in several other medical device companies. David was the founder and CEO of Vincent Medical, a company that performs contract manufacturing of medical devices in China, which he then sold in 2002. From 1986 to 1997 David worked for Respironics, where he ran the Patient Interface Group and was responsible for the development of the Respironics PAP masks. He completed his career there as General Manager of Respironics Hong Kong Ltd, where he was responsible for running the Asian factories that manufacture the Respironics masks. Mr. Groll holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master’s Degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.
Greg Ulery
Greg Ulery, our Chief Accounting Officer, has more than 30 years of experience in applying accounting best practices to manufacturing companies. He joined the Circadiance senior management team in early 2010. He worked from 2000 to 2009 for the North American branch of Swedish multinational Hoganas AB as an accounting manager until his promotion in 2005 to the national credit manager. Hoganas acquired FirstMiss Steel, Greg’s previous employer, where he had worked as an accounting manager since 1995. He also worked for 10 years as the accounting manager and regional credit manager for a small foam manufacturer. Greg holds a B.S. in accounting from Saint Vincent College.
Board of Directors
David Groll
Kelley Skoloda
Kelley Skoloda, M.B.A., is the Founder and CEO of KS Consulting & Capital LLC. Her consultancy combines the best of big agency brand marketing with the smarts and agility of the many start-ups she has encountered through her angel investing work. Kelley is also a co-founding member of the Next Act Fund, an angel fund that invests in early-stage, women-led companies, where she is co-chair of the Investment Committee. Kelley has been named one of the “most influential women in business” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and has been voted into the PRSA-Pittsburgh Hall of Fame. She serves on the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation and Excela Health boards of trustees, where she sits on the Governance Committee, and has served on the BlogHer/SheKnows advisory board, the Seton Hill University Board of Trustees and as a member of The TODAY Show Parenting Network. Skoloda has been quoted and her work has been featured in HuffPo, Time.com, TODAY.com, Fortune.com, Forbes, Adweek, BRANDWEEK, C-SPAN, and many other media outlets.
Michael Golden
Michael has committed his career to helping people manage their chronic diseases via evangelizing the intersection of connectivity and medical devices. He brings 20 years of product management and business development experience from startups to industry leaders (Qualcomm, Samsung, Philips, UPMC), including CPAPs, CGM’s, insulin pumps, mPERS, holter, event and MCT. Michael founded an industry first, IP-backed SaaS company that fulfills digital therapeutics from EMRs to mass-market mobile devices, and is a member of the HL7 FHIR DME working group. Michael holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas.
Anthony L. Sico, D.O.
Dr. Anthony L. Sico D.O. is the Medical Director for Aetna insurance. Previously, he practiced at Indiana Regional Medical Center in Indiana, PA in the Occupational Health Services Department and Emergency Department. He is also the Medical Director of the Indiana Regional Medical Center Occupational Health Department and is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Family Practice. Tony is a graduate of Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and holds a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Wisconsin.
William A. Groll
Bill Groll has more than 30 years of industrial experience, primarily in the metals industry. He has been with All-Clad Metalcrafters since 1980 and has served in a variety of technical and operational roles of increasing responsibility. He currently serves as the vice president of product development for All-Clad Metalcrafters. He interacts with All-Clad’s customers and tracks market trends to create new products that serve customer needs. Bill has been awarded 18 U.S. patents with another 14 patents pending; he was named Pittsburgh’s “Inventor of the Year” in 2005 by the Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association. Bill holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Point Park University and an Executive MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.
Technical Advisors
Steve Menke
Steve Menke is the CTO of Curavi Health, Inc. His role is to apply his consumer and clinical product development experience to raise the bar in post-acute care technology solutions. Curavi Health is a spin-out of UPMC Enterprises and is being built on the latest in interdisciplinary clinical research in the field of telemedicine and clinical decision support. Prior to Curavi, Steve served as CIO of BodyMedia which was acquired by Jawbone in 2013. BodyMedia was a pioneer in wearable body monitors that were used in clinical, research and consumer settings. The BodyMedia platform was registered with the FDA as a Class II medical device. Steve holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the winner of the Pittsburgh Technology Council CIO of the year and holds multiple patents in the wearable body monitory.
Medical Advisors
Andre A Muelenaer, Jr, MD, MS, FAAP, FCCP
Andre A Muelenaer, Jr, MD, MS, FAAP, FCCP, is board certified in Pediatric Pulmonology and has practiced in this specialty for over 30 years. He serves as section chief of pediatric pulmonology and allergy at the Carilion Children’s Hospital, Roanoke, Virginia. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and holds adjunct positions in the Virginia Tech Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, and the Virginia Tech Faculty of Health Sciences. He is Visiting Associate Professor, Paediatrics/Child Health, Busitema University, Mbale, Uganda. He currently teaches part-time in the Virginia Tech Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics. Dr. Muelenaer is a graduate of Eastern Virginia Medical School, completed his pediatric residency at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, and received his fellowship training in pediatric pulmonology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Dr. Muelenaer has been interested in infant apnea throughout his medical career, establishing the apnea program and pediatric sleep lab at Duke University, followed by a large infant apnea program at Carilion Clinic. He founded Triangle Apnea Consultants, Inc., in 2002, a “store and forward” telemedicine practice that received, analyzed, and interpreted data from thousands of event recording cardiorespiratory monitors utilized to monitor infants and children in the home setting. This service permitted primary care physicians to have an expert review of data while providing decision support knowledge to optimize care for their patients.
He has an extensive background working with engineers, starting as an undergraduate at Virginia Tech. He co-founded the Pediatric Medical Device Institute (PMDI), along with Al Wicks, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech. PMDI is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission to transform needs for pediatric devices to tools at the bedside, through the FDA’s Total Product Life Cycle model. He has mentored dozens of VT engineering and life sciences undergraduates, serving on graduate committees of engineering students, and research advisor for medical students and pediatric residents.
Dr. Muelenaer has served as chief medical officer for biomedical startup and early-stage companies. He is a board member for local, state, national, and international non-profit health-related organizations. He is a veteran of the US Army Medical Corps, with a total of 27 years of active and reserve service.