Visionary, imaginative, driven leader with a passion for solving tough problems involving people and engineering, inventing new approaches or improving existing ones, executing on a vision and mission, and leading teams to achieve what others believe is impossible. I’m a pragmatic, big-picture change agent with the intellectual curiosity, intuition, and courage to look ahead for preventive, proactive solutions. Some of my peers have described me as “smart enough to fix anything and fearless enough to try.” That applies to people, products, processes, systems, and technologies.

A US Army-trained biomedical equipment technician and an electrical engineer. I've worked across many industries all over the world. Specialties: Computers (hardware & software), Storage, Communications (RF), Medical (hospital clinical engineering, Biomed, and biotech), ASIC, Hardware, Software, RF, Manager, Director, Vice President Engineering, Product Management. North Carolina. General Manager, International Business Development. Consultant. Program & Project Management, Leadership, People Skills, Product Development, R&D, Operations, P&L Executive. Fortune 1000 and Startups. Customer Focus. Turn arounds. Your fix it goto guy!

Justin is passionate about improving healthcare outcomes in developing countries via improved access to medical technology for doctors, nurses, and patients.

After earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in biomedical engineering from Tulane University in 2009, with focus on medical devices, Justin worked for five years at Engineering World Health, focused on training Biomedical Equipment Technicians (BMETs) in countries including Rwanda, Ghana, and Haiti, and with a particular focus in Honduras where Justin managed EWH’s BMET Training program for four years. That program, funded by GE Foundation, included a “train the trainers” initiative and concluded with a successful transition in 2014 of ownership to Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional (INFOP), the national vocational training institute in Honduras. The INFOP program continues to graduate BMETs annually in Honduras, and Justin travels back regularly to provide on-going support. Through this experience, Justin gained valuable cultural understanding and connections in Latin America, as well as fluency in Spanish.

Justin returned to his home region of Western Washington after the conclusion of the Honduras BMET program and has been living and working in Seattle since. He spent 8 years working for NI as Account Manager, gaining valuable corporate sales experience and owning the NI relationship with top accounts in the tech sector, including Microsoft and Amazon where he drove 23-fold growth in annual revenue over that timeframe at those accounts.

In 2018, Justin incorporated Justo as a privately held company to distribute medical devices in developing countries and blend together his personal backgrounds and skillsets with global health technologies as well as in technical sales. Since leaving the full-time role at NI at the end of 2022, Justin is fully dedicated to helping his customers (clinicians in the developing world) and vendors (innovative medical device companies) through is work with Justo. Justin is excited to join the Board of Directors at Biomedical World and contribute to the mission of building capacity for biomedical technology abroad.

In his free time, Justin loves spending with his family, including wife Abigail, and children Clifford and Magnolia. His primary hobby is outdoor endurance and adventure sports, including climbing the glaciated peaks of the Pacific Northwest and participating in long-distance cycling events.