Meet Our Team
Kent Murphy, PhD
Kent Murphy, PhD
President & CEO
Dr. Murphy is a recognized national leader in transitioning science into products. For the past 32 years, he has led research and development programs, product development efforts and successfully launched dozens of products that are used around the world in a variety of market applications. Kent has experience and proven success in leading and managing technology teams through research and development all the way through product launch and customer support. Dr. Murphy has built-up and sold numerous companies and created more than 400 jobs in rural, Southwestern Virginia.
Kent Murphy, PhD
President & CEO
Phil Couch, PhD
Phil Couch, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Couch received a Ph.D. in Electro-Optics from Cambridge University in 1989 and is a fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology. He is an accomplished engineer and co-founder of several successful engineering companies, and brings Axon Dx over 30 years of experience in technology development. Dr. Couch’s expertise lies in a broad background of electronics development and related optical and mechanical design, and in the development of precision instrumentation for many purposes used in the defense, government, energy (oil & gas and electrical power), and medical sectors. Among many products he developed the first fiber optic Ethernet, which was widely deployed in critical infrastructure. Phil brings this wealth of experience to the healthcare field with AxonDx and to the development of the nCyte system.
Phil Couch, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Marc Hrovatic
Marc Hrovatic
COO & CFO
Is a Founder and has been in leadership roles in multiple successful technology companies for over 20 years. In his role as COO and CFO, Mr. Hrovatic has led strategic planning including company formation, corporate structure, financing and exit strategies. He built the corporate infrastructure for 400+ employee company from private to public company with 50% annual growth in revenues after the IPO. Mr. Hrovatic led the development of financial reporting systems for Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), and GAP requirements for a public company. He also built and led teams in research, product development and sales. In addition to his expertise in operations and finance, Mr. Hrovatic has led the strategic planning and operational execution of intellectual property portfolios of pharmaceutical, diagnostic and robotic companies. His experience includes patent filing, negotiating in-licensing and out-licensing. Mr. Hrovatic currently serves on the Board of Axon Connected companies as Director, Treasurer and Secretary.
Marc Hrovatic
COO & CFO
Joe Bos
Joe Bos
VP of Engineering
Mr. Bos brings 14 years’ experience designing, developing, and commercializing, precision optics and measurement technologies for medical, automotive, energy, defense, and telecommunications industries. He holds an MS in Optics from the University of Rochester, Institute of Optics, and a BS in Physics from Western Michigan University. His expertise lies in optics, algorithms, signal and image processing, and more generally, bringing technologies from concept to prototype to released product. Joe is a proven innovator and accomplished engineer, having developed over 20 commercially successful products including custom optics and illuminators, interferometers, microscopes, benchtop and mobile reflectometers, distributed optical sensing interrogators and sensors, and 3D machine vision and localization systems.
Joe Bos
VP of Engineering
Charlie Gause
Charlie Gause
VP of Business Development
Mr. Gause is a technology development executive with more than 25 years of experience. His extensive business development experience for commercial and government customers has resulted in over $35 million in contract research. He has successfully developed multiple products developed for multiple markets. After establishing the 24K sq. ft. nanoWorks Division of Luna Innovations (NASDAQ: LUNA IPO June 2006) he founded AxNano, a strategic leadership and technology development group responsible for driving research and development for Triad Growth Partners.
Charlie Gause
VP of Business Development
Peggy Robinson
Peggy Robinson
CEO at Caza Health LLC, an Axon Connected company focused on women’s health.
Peggy has over 25 years of experience in the Clinical Diagnostics, Medical Technology and Life Science industries including commercialization of products globally; product development; strategic alliance management; KOL network development; global marketing; sales and technical support; market and business development. Most recently, Peggy was the Vice President for ANGLE North America, Inc., a world leading liquid biopsy company.
Peggy Robinson
CEO at Caza Health LLC, an Axon Connected company focused on women’s health.
Tom Brock III
Tom Brock III
CEO of Convergent AI, an Axon Connected company focused on predictive analytic solutions.
Tom brings over 30 years experience in the software and analytics space. He has BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech, is a graduate of GE’s management development course and a six sigma master black belt. Toms experience includes COO for a $30M healthcare software and services company, VP of strategy for a $500M healthcare data connectivity and analytics business, GM for $30M healthcare solution and CIO of a $300M industrial sensing business.
Tom Brock III
CEO of Convergent AI, an Axon Connected company focused on predictive analytic solutions.
Sven Brueckner , PhD
Sven Brueckner , PhD
CTO of Convergent AI , an Axon Connected company focused on predictive analytic solutions.
Sven brings over 20 years experience in ML/AI. He holds a Dr. in Computer Science from Humboldt University Berlin. His doctoral thesis on modeling complex systems created the algorithms that our systems are based on today. Dr. Brueckner lead applied research efforts on Agent-Based Complex Systems for more than a decade at Jacobs Technology. He has authored over twenty papers and is inventor on several patents on the subject.