About Us The LaunchPort™, Located in Baltimore, Maryland

Bob Storey, The MVR Company

Managing Partner

In addition to his role as the Managing Partner of LaunchPort, Bob is Managing Director of The MVR Company, which focuses on the assessment and creation of new ventures, with a particular emphasis on medical technologies. He is Chairman and board member for a number of early stage Medtech companies.

He is appointed as Vice Chairman of the State of Maryland’s Life Sciences Advisory Board, and has been active in efforts of collaboration between the FDA, Payors, Device companies and Providers to develop a high value medical device demonstration hub in Maryland.

Since mid 2020, he has served as a Portfolio Executive for NIH’s RADx initiative to speed innovation in the development, commercialization, and implementation of technologies for COVID-19 testing.

He is currently serving as the Evaluation Director for Neurotech Harbor (an NIH collaboration between Johns Hopkins and Howard University that focuses on investments in neurotechnologies), serves on the External Advisory Board for the Johns Hopkins Center for Biomedical Innovation and Design, the Strategic Advisory Board for Johns Hopkins Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, the JHU Applied Physics Lab Technology Commercialization Panel, the Investment Review Committee for the Bisciotti Translational Research Fund, and is the Johns Hopkins advocate for medical device and engineering investment submissions to the Maryland Innovation Initiative.

He is the Medical Device expert for the National Institute of Health’s I-Corps @ NIH™ program, is a Nationally Certified Instructor for the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps™ and was active in the development of the NIH NCATS/CTSI I-Corps program. In his role at the national level, he is the principal instructor for life science lean innovation programs at numerous universities around the US. He has led international cohorts in the Lean Start-up area in Asia/Pacific, Middle East, South America and Africa.

Jeff Quinn, The Quinn Group

Partner

Jeff has been professionally involved in the medical device manufacturing industry for over 35 years. In 1986, he established and co-founded Engineered Medical Systems (EMS), a medical device manufacturer in Indianapolis, Indiana. EMS contract manufactures and produces private label medical devices for a variety of private and multi-national medical devices manufacturers and distributors. In 1998, Engineered Medical Systems Ireland (dba Caradyne, Ltd.) located in Galway, Ireland, was established to develop and manufacture ventilators, monitors and other respiratory devices for the acute care markets. This division was subsequently sold to one of their multi-national medical device partners.

To expand EMS capabilities, a sister company, Pulmodyne Inc. was established to develop, market and sell a proprietary line of products in the Critical Care, Airway Management and Emergency markets, with a worldwide sales network of over 70 global distributors and 20 domestic distributors.

With the success provided via their previous established companies, they expanded in 2014 by establishing Engineered Medical Systems (Malaysia) in Penang to support international products and markets. All EMS facilities are ISO-13485 certified facilities.

The Quinn Group, which consisted of all of these entities, was sold to Intersurgical, LTD (UK) in late 2021.

Mike Pallotta

Operations Planning Manager

Mike has a degree in Chemical Engineering with a focus in Materials. After graduating, Mike worked as a Chemical Process Engineer for a Fortune 500 Glass Manufacturer, where he helped improve the efficiency of a pollution abatement plant by planning and running a series of experiments to problem shoot the source of the plant’s inefficiencies.

Since then, Mike joined the Baltimore Based Venture Studio Early Charm, where he lead the electrospinning operations for the company, which included executing and delivering on custom client work and operating a filter membrane pilot production plant during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Mike become the Director of Production at Early Charm, where he was responsible for the planning and allocation of personnel and resources deliver on the variety of custom materials projects.

Mike has joined the team at The LaunchPort™ as the Operation Planning Manager; in this role, he plans and executes on all of the current and future contract manufacturing that The LaunchPort™ offers to the Baltimore MedTech Ecosystem.