Meet Our Team
Leadership
John McColgan
CEO & Founder
- •25 years in health & wellness brand building, product development and sales
- •Marketing & Licensing Consultant for successful global ventures
John Murphy
Executive Advisory Role
- •Audit Committee Chairman of Apria Healthcare (a Blackstone company), a market leader of integrated home healthcare equipment and related services.
- •Audit Company Chairman of Alight Solutions (a Blackstone company), a leading global provider of health, wealth and human capital management solutions.
- •Past director and officer of several public companies.
Michael L. Baum
Board Member
- •Partner at Wisner and Baum
- •Trial Team for the Lee Johnson Monsanto case, resulting in a $289.3 million verdict.
- •Trial Team for $2.055 billion jury verdict in Pilliod v. Monsanto. This case remains the largest verdict in California for 2019 and the ninth largest in U.S. history.
Paul J Mills, PhD
Science Advisory Board
- •Professor, Family Medicine And Public Health
- •Co-Director, Translational Research Technology, Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI)
- •Director, Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health, Family Medicine and Public Health
- •UC San Diego School of Medicine
Scott Peterson, PHD
CSO Science Advisory Board
- •Professor Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
- •Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer immunology program
- •Expertise in microbiology, microbiomes
- •Consultant for phenobiome
Hans Peter Bissinger, PHD
GeneGuard Business/Science Advisor
- •Whitehead institute/Mit Post doctoral plant biology
- •MBA Rutgers University
- •CEO FERMX
- •Managing director and co-founder or new path Bio
Legal Representation
Ivan J. Wasserman
Amin Wasserman Gurnani
Ivan Wasserman serves as Managing Partner of Amin Wasserman Gurnani and is one of the nation's premier attorneys for health, wellness, beauty, and other consumer products. Companies of all sizes making, marketing, and selling food, dietary supplements, cosmetics, over-the-counter drugs, and medical devices praise the depth of Ivan's knowledge and experience, his humor, and his ability to maintain the human perspective while leading them through this heavily regulated landscape. With a unique combination of legal acumen, marketing savvy, deep industry knowledge, and creativity, he has been involved in countless successful product launches and innovative marketing campaigns.
Mark Kloeppel
Fisher, Tousey, Leas & Ball
Mark has diverse tax practice and represents individuals and businesses on a variety of legal matters. Mark's focus is on closely held businesses, real estate investors, business owners and entrepreneurs. He has helped many successful business owners with succession planning and represented clients in buying or selling businesses, including the sales of businesses to public companies.
Michael L. Baum, Esq.
Wisner and Baum
Under Michael's stewardship, our firm grew from a small boutique law firm to one of the nation's leading plaintiffs' litigation firms that is now known for its cutting edge, superior legal work. While running Baum Hedlund, the firm's success in challenging cases and precedent-setting legal rulings has helped shape the law for the benefit of those harmed in commercial transportation accidents and by dangerous pharmaceuticals and consumer products. Michael's ceaseless advocacy in pharmaceutical and consumer fraud litigation has brought our firm international attention and acclaim.