About Breathometer
Breathometer is a pioneer in breath analysis technology. Our mission is to build the world’s first portable breath analysis platform to help people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
Founded by Charles Michael Yim in September 2012, Breathometer develops innovative breath sensing technology combined with superior design and usability to deliver groundbreaking digital health products.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Charles Michael Yim
Charles Michael Yim is a 3x serial entrepreneur from Silicon Valley, that is passionate about inventing and building innovative products that consistently delight customers. He is a young veteran in the startup world with a proven track record of success. Charles is best known for being a Reality TV Star on ABC's Emmy Award winning show Shark Tank where he convinced all 5 celebrity Sharks to invest $1M together into Breathometer. Being the Founder and CEO of Breathometer, Charles is responsible for overall direction and product strategy. Most recently, Charles was Founder and CEO of Chatterfly from inception, to acquisition by Plum District, a Kleiner Perkins company. Under Charles' leadership and vision, Chatterfly was able to become one of the most influential neighborhood reward platforms in the mobile space starting from the ground floor. Prior to Chatterfly, Charles was the Founder of ProBuddy, where he teamed up with a senior engineer at Facebook to develop a local service provider recommendation engine. Prior to that, Charles played an integral role in business development at Fortify Software, later acquired by HP.
Before entering the software industry, Charles was heavily involved in a leadership role at Cintas Corporation as a Regional Six Sigma, where he was responsible for stream-lining business processes, business analytics, M&A and QA for the entire West Coast Operation within the Emerging Businesses Sector.
Charles has appeared on ABC's hit show Shark Tank and has been interviewed by TechCrunch Live, BBC, USA Today, MSNBC, Fox Business News, Wall Street Journal and prolific blogger Robert Scoble. Charles was nominated for Forbes' top 30under30 under Technology and a Champion of Change for Crowd-funding Entrepreneurs at the White House in 2013. Charles is the Managing Director of cMy Ventures, serves on the Board of Directors for FADD and Advisory Board of K Hotels. Charles has authored multiple patents in embedded systems and is currently writing his first book. Charles graduated with a B.S. in Business Economics from UC Riverside and from Stanford Graduate School of Business in the Executive Program.
Charles Michael Yim
Founder
Cesar Lee
Cesar Lee is a Principal and founding member of WRV. Cesar has experience as a technology investor across stages and geographies, ranging from seed stage to buyout transactions in the U.S., Latin America and Asia. Most recently, Cesar was an investment professional at Riverwood Capital, a technology focused growth stage and buyout private equity firm. Cesar began his career at RBC Capital Markets, where he was part of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Equity-linked & Derivatives groups. While at RBC, Cesar spent a majority of his time working on M&A advisory transactions for technology companies. During 2013, Cesar joined Samsung to help to expand its presence in Silicon Valley through the creation of Samsung's Strategy and Innovation Center. Cesar graduated from The University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his bachelor's degree in economics with High Honors.
Cesar Lee
Principal, WRV. Board Member - Breathometer
Yan Kalika
Yan Kalika, DMD, MS is a certified specialist in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics. He is an active member of the American Dental Association, the California Dental Association, the American Association of Orthodontics, the Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontics and the San Francisco Dental Society. Dr. Kalika graduated with honors and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, majoring in chemistry. While in Berkeley, he was in the Students Honor Society and Golden Key Honor Society. He received his dental degree from Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1998. In addition, he completed a fellowship in Washington D.C. in the field of dental health policy. While at Harvard, Dr. Kalika served as president of the American Student Dental Association where he received a national award of excellence. He was a lecturer at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health. He received honors in all clinical disciplines at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the Soma Weiss Research Scholarship and an International Research Fellowship from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kalika completed his orthodontic training at the University of California at San Francisco where he received a specialty certificate in orthodontics and facial orthopedics and a master’s degree in oral biology. He is committed in providing quality orthodontic treatment while exceeding patients and parents’ expectations.
Yan Kalika
DDS, Dental Advisor. Ind Board Member - Breathometer
Damien Petty
Damien manages Iconical's investments in Vivino, Spirometrix, Vicarious, Fanduel, Bossa Nova Robotics, Starship Technologies, MyInsiders, and several other companies. He is also actively involved with other Iconical and ECA portfolio companies, including: Rdio, Wire, Covata, Manalto and FlashFunders. Damien was part of the team that represented the founders of Skype in several transactions including the sale of Skype to eBay in 2005, the reacquisition of Skype in 2009 in partnership with a with a consortium of private equity firms, and the recent sale of Skype to Microsoft. Damien also managed Iconical's investment in DeepMind Technologies (acquired by Google).
Damien Petty
VP, Iconical. Board Member - Breathometer
SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM
Tim Smokoff
More than 25 years of health industry leadership, product development and delivery experience. As CEO of Numera, Tim revitalized a non-performing business. By retooling the company’s strategy, product offerings and marketing approach, Numera achieved market leadership and strong financial performance.
Prior to joining Numera, Tim served as general manager of Microsoft’s WW Health Group, leading Microsoft’s strategy and solutions enablement for Health and Life Sciences, owning top-line revenue, partner engagement, vertical specific marketing programs, and supporting key industry relationships.
In close collaboration with area sales leaders and product development groups, Tim worked to establish and grow Microsoft’s global Health business resulting in sustained YOY growth and attainment of all core business metrics.
Prior to coming to Microsoft, Tim spent 14 years developing and bringing to market hospital information systems, physician office systems, and medical devices for a variety of companies, including several start-up ventures.
Tim Smokoff
CEO
Tim Ratto
Tim leads the research and development efforts at Breathometer where he is responsible for identifying and validating the technology behind Breathometer’s new line of breath analysis products. He brings over 14 years of experience discovering and developing technologies across a wide range of products; including consumer health, energy and renewables, and industrial and military sensor products. Prior to Breathometer, Tim was the Senior Director of R&D at Adamant Technologies, an early stage Khosla-backed medical device start-up where he led the team that successfully developed a sensing platform for breath analysis. Tim has pushed technology forward throughout his career both as an entrepreneur (co-founder of Nanoasis, backed by Kleiner Perkins) and as a leading scientist (at Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories) amassing over 70 patents and publications to date. Tim has a BS in Physics and a PhD in Biophysics both from UC Davis.
Tim Ratto
Chief Scientist
Paul Swegle
Paul Swegle
General Counsel
OUR TEAM
Mike Raftery
Mike has over 20 years' experience in engineering and management. His roles have spanned a variety of areas including engineering, quality, operations, product development, and customer support.
Most recently Mike was Director of Corporate Quality and Manufacturing Engineering at Echelon Corporation, where he managed quality and manufacturing engineering for an extensive product line of semiconductors, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and Smart Meters. In Mike's tenure at Echelon, over 60 million devices were successfully deployed.
Previously Mike served in engineering and business process improvement roles supporting the core microprocessor business at Intel Corporation. He also filled several manufacturing, engineering, quality, customer support, and product development roles at Olin Corporation.
Mike holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Yale University, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering M.I.T., and an M.S. in Management (M.B.A) from M.I.T.
Mike Raftery
Senior Director of Manufacturing and Quality
Daniel Shein
Shein leads the mobile development at Breathometer. A full stack engineer with Product Management experience, he has has spent the last 15 years building consumer and enterprise products from the bottom up and has been designing and building mobile apps since the days of Symbian. He's lead teams and projects at Google, PrimeSense, Samsung, IDEO and more to successful products with large user base in mobile, TV and web.
Daniel Shein
Mobile Development Lead
Joyce Cheng
Joyce has over 15 years of international business experience, with a diverse background in marketing, product management, logistics, developer and customer relations. Prior to joining Breathometer she managed developer and community relations at Emotiv, a breakthrough wearable computing company developing human-computer interfaces. Prior to Emotiv, Joyce worked with several companies on launching and marketing products internationally and with KLA-Tencor where she was the customer liaison for their Japanese customer base. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, where she was the VP of Society of Women Engineers. She also obtained a master’s certificate in Internet marketing from the University of San Francisco. Joyce is a member of SAG-AFTRA and she is fluent in Mandarin and Japanese.
Joyce Cheng
Operations Manager
ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Raed Dweik
Raed A. Dweik, M.D. is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Program in the Departments of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Respiratory Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, and critical care medicine. Dr. Dweik's clinical interests are in pulmonary hypertension, asthma, critical care, and chronic beryllium disease. He has a joint appointment in the department of Pathobiology in the Lerner Research Institute (LRI) and is Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
Dr. Raed Dweik
Pulmonology Specialist/Breath Expert
Dan Laskowski
Dan has 30 plus years of experience at the Cleveland Clinic leading research teams in pathobiology, implementing analytical instrumentation and recruiting for pharmaceutical and biotechnology portions of the company. He’s also the CEO of Physiological Measurement Systems LLC and graduated from Harvard University with a BS in Chemistry.
Dan Laskowski
Respiratory Physiologist, Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Ed Zuckerberg
Ed has always been an early adopter of technology in the Dental Office, computerizing his office in 1986 and integrating digital radiography in 1998 to going completely paperless in 2005 while completing crowns, veneers and inlays via same day CAD/CAM Dentistry since 2009. He has had several articles published in Dentaltown and Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry and regularly lectures nationally and internationally on Technology Integration, Social Media Marketing for Dentists, and Online Reputation Management. Selling his private practice in July of 2013 he now lives in the Bay Area, practicing Dentistry part-time at Rejuvenate Dental in Palo Alto, CA while lecturing and consulting with private Dental Offices.
Dr. Ed Zuckerberg
Dental Advisor
INVESTORS
Flextronics
Foxconn
Walden Riverwood Ventures
VPG Asia
Structure Capital
Stanford University StartX
SK telecom
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban is a highly successful entrepreneur and investor who founded HDNet, Broadcast.com and MicroSolutions. He has also been an investor in startups, including Mahalo, JungleCents.com, motionloft.com, Filesanywhere.com, Naked Pizza and 140Fire.com. Named a winner of the GQ "Men of the Year" in 2006 and included in the New York Times Magazine's "Year in Ideas," Mark is recognized as being among the most influential people in both the cable and sports industries.
Mark is best known for his purchase of the Dallas Mavericks on January 4, 2000. Under his leadership, the team's home games have become a total entertainment experience. Despite initial criticism, he added much more to the usual game-day experience by introducing original video content, advanced technology and unique entertainment options like the Mavericks ManiAACs. His successful efforts have brought a sense of pride and passion to the fans. Prior to his purchase of the Mavericks, Mark co-founded Broadcast.com, the leading provider of multimedia and streaming on the Internet. Broadcast.com was sold to Yahoo! Inc. in July 1999 for $6.5 billion dollars. MicroSolutions, a leading national systems integrator, was co-founded by Mark and partner Martin Woodall in 1983 and later sold to CompuServe.
Mark Cuban
Kevin O’Leary
Kevin O'Leary's success story starts where most entrepreneurs begin: with a big idea and zero cash. From his basement, he launched SoftKey Software Products. As sales took off, Kevin moved to headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts and went on an industry consolidating acquisition binge. From 1995 to 1999 he bought out almost every one of his software competitors, including Mindscape, Broderbund and the Learning Company in the industry's first vicious public hostile battle. Shareholders loved his take-no-prisoners, cost cutting style and fueled him with billions to do his deals.
In 1999 Kevin sold his company to the Mattel Toy Company for a staggering 3.7 billion dollars, one of the largest deals ever done in the consumer software industry. To keep his money working hard, he took control of his wealth from his lackluster money managers and founded his own mutual fund company, O'Leary Funds. He raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors who share his "get paid while you wait" yield oriented, value investing philosophy. He shares his tips and tribulations with a national television audience and turns The Street upside down in the process.
As a self-proclaimed "Eco-preneur," Kevin looks hardest for investments that make money - and are environmentally friendly. When he's not squeezing the market from his office in West Palm Beach, he travels the world looking for new opportunities to deploy his capital. He is a founding investor and director of Stream Global, an international business outsourcing company. He is on the investment committee of Boston's prestigious 200-year-old Hamilton Trust, and is the chairman of O'Leary Funds. He also serves on the executive board of The Richard Ivey School of Business.
Kevin O’Leary
Daymond John
As CEO and president, Daymond guided FUBU to a staggering $350 million in revenues in 1998, placing it in the same stratosphere as such designer sportswear labels as Donna Karan New York and Tommy Hilfiger. Over the last 16 years, Daymond has evolved into more than a fashion mogul. In 2007 the street-smart businessman penned his first book, Display of Power: How FUBU Changed a World of Fashion, Branding & Lifestyle, which was named one of the best business books of 2007 by the Library Journal.
Known as the "Godfather of Urban Fashion," Daymond is regarded as one of the most sought-after branding experts and keynote speakers in fashion and business today. With multiple business ventures on his resume, Daymond can be seen sharing his knowledge and business genius on numerous business and entertainment television programs.
Daymond John
Lori Greiner
Lori Greiner started with one idea and turned it into a multi-million dollar international brand. She is now regarded as one of the most prolific inventors of retail products, having created over 400 products, and holds 115 U.S. and international patents. A well-known celebrity personality on QVC-TV, Greiner has hosted her own show, Clever & Unique Creations by Lori Greiner, for over 15 years.
Greiner's cleverly designed products cover a large range, as she is constantly adding new items. From kitchen tools, travel bags and unique accessories to must-have organizers for the home, her products are enjoyed by men and women alike. She is known for creating some of the most popular jewelry and cosmetic organizers of her time. Her inspiration comes from her passion to bring happiness to people by making their everyday lives easier. Her products are sold on QVC and in retailers across the U.S. and in Europe.
Lori Greiner
Robert Herjavec
Robert Herjavec has lived the classic "rags to riches" story. The son of Croatian immigrants, he earned his incredible wealth by overcoming the odds with pure hard work and intuition. He remembers how his mother, who could barely speak English, lost the family savings to a smooth-talking vacuum salesman. Since then, Robert vowed he would never let his family be taken advantage of again. In the early '90s, Robert eked out a living waiting tables at a posh Yorkville restaurant. During the initial stages of the dot com craze, he realized that technology was the ticket to serious money. By night, he launched BRAK systems, his first technology company, which is now worth a reported $100 million dollars. He sold his company to AT&T in 2000, but that was only the start. Robert then helped negotiate the sale of another technology company to Nokia for $225 million. Instead of retiring with his cash, he now heads The Herjavec Group, a leading IT security and infrastructure integration firm.
Robert Herjavec