MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Skyline Medical Inc. (NASDAQ:SKLN) (“Skyline” or “the Company”), producer of the FDA-approved STREAMWAY® System for automated, direct-to-drain medical fluid disposal, announces the appointments of Timothy A. Krochuk and J. Melville (“Mel”) Engle to its Board of Directors, effective as of today. These appointments increase the number of Directors to five, all of whom are independent directors.
“We are delighted to welcome such talented and experienced professionals as Tim and Mel to the Skyline Medical Board of Directors. They bring to Skyline decades of valuable functional expertise and significant sector experience,” said Dr. Carl Schwartz, Executive Chairman of Skyline Medical. “We have full confidence their financial, pharmaceutical and leadership skills, together with their public company experience will be of true value to Skyline. These two additions bring depth to our governance, and we look forward to their contributions as we work together to execute our growth strategy.”
J. Melville Engle
Mr. Engle has worked in the healthcare industry for the past three decades. Since 2012 he has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Engle Strategic Solutions, a consulting company focused on CEO development and coaching, senior management consulting, corporate problem-solving and strategic and operational planning. He is Chairman of the Board of Windgap Medical, Inc., a start-up medical device firm focused on unique drug delivery applications, and has held executive positions at prominent companies including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at ThermoGenesis Corp., Regional Head/Director, North America at Merck Generics, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dey, L.P. and Senior Vice President, U.S. Sales at Allergan.
In addition to ThermoGenesis, he has served on the Board of Directors of several public companies, including Oxygen Biotherapeutics and Anika Therapeutics.
Mr. Engle holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Colorado Boulder and an MBA in Finance from the University of Southern California. He has served as a Trustee of the Queen of the Valley Medical Center Foundation, and a Board Member of the Napa Valley Community Foundation and the Napa College Foundation all in Napa, Calif., and as Vice Chair of the Thunderbird Global Council at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz.
Timothy A. Krochuk
Mr. Krochuk is a co-founder and Managing Director of GRT Capital Partners, LLC, an investment adviser based in Boston, and is a Portfolio Manager and Managing Partner for the GRT BioEdge Ventures Fund, a fund focused on equity investments in privately held, emerging healthcare and biopharmaceutical companies. Prior to starting GRT Capital Partners in 2001, Mr. Krochuk became the youngest diversified portfolio manager in the history of Fidelity and was responsible for the development, programming and implementation of investment models used by mutual funds with more than $20 billion in assets under management.
He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of CHP Clean Energy, a full-service provider of biogas powered combined heat and power systems for wastewater treatment facilities with anaerobic digesters, which he founded in 2009. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Windgap Medical and Flatirons Bank.
Mr. Krochuk holds an AB in Economics from Harvard College, a Chartered Financial Analyst designation, an Executive Masters Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors and is an active member of the Board of the Massachusetts General Hospital President’s Council.
About Skyline Medical Inc.
Skyline Medical Inc. produces a fully automated, patented, FDA-cleared, waste fluid disposal system that virtually eliminates staff exposure to blood, irrigation fluid and other potentially infectious fluids found in the healthcare environment. Antiquated manual fluid handling methods — which require hand carrying and emptying filled fluid canisters — present an exposure risk and potential liability. Skyline Medical's STREAMWAY System fully automates the collection, measurement and disposal of waste fluids and is designed to: 1) reduce overhead costs to hospitals and surgical centers, 2) improve compliance with OSHA and other regulatory agency safety guidelines, 3) improve efficiency in the operating room, and radiology and endoscopy departments — leading to greater profitability, and 4) provide greater environmental stewardship by helping to eliminate the approximately 50 million potentially disease-infected canisters that go into landfills annually in the United States. For additional information, please visit www.skylinemedical.com.
Forward-looking Statements:
Certain of the matters discussed in this announcement contain forward-looking statements that involve material risks to and uncertainties in the Company's business that may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the statements made herein. Such risks and uncertainties include, among other things, current negative operating cash flows and a need for additional funding to finance our operating plan; the terms of any further financing, which may be highly dilutive and may include onerous terms; unexpected costs and operating deficits, and lower than expected sales and revenues; uncertain willingness and ability of customers to adopt new technologies and other factors that may affect further market acceptance, if our product is not accepted by our potential customers, it is unlikely that we will ever become profitable, adverse economic conditions; the potential delisting of the Company’s common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market as a result of the Company’s failures to comply with listing standards, in which case the liquidity of our common stock would likely be impaired and there would likely be a reduction in our coverage by security analysts and the news media, thereby resulting in lower prices for our common stock than might otherwise prevail; adverse results of any legal proceedings; the volatility of our operating results and financial condition; inability to attract or retain qualified senior management personnel, including sales and marketing personnel; our ability to establish and maintain the proprietary nature of our technology through the patent process, as well as our ability to possibly license from others patents and patent applications necessary to develop products; the Company's ability to implement its long range business plan for various applications of its technology, including the possibility that the development of applicable technologies by GLG Pharma, LLC will be delayed, will not occur or will not receive applicable regulatory approvals on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to consummate its joint venture with Electronic On-Ramp, Inc.; the Company's ability to enter into agreements with any necessary marketing and/or distribution partners; the impact of competition, the obtaining and maintenance of any necessary regulatory clearances applicable to applications of the Company's technology; and management of growth and other risks and uncertainties that may be detailed from time to time in the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell securities and does not purport to be an analysis of the Company's financial position. See the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and subsequent reports and other filings at www.sec.gov.