Prior to JLS Ventures, Justin operated a consultancy that provided advisory services and capital formation to private and public companies. He co-founded a nationally recognized healthcare finance conference that attracted more than 1,500 attendees and 150 senior corporate leaders.
He previously worked for a global healthcare consulting firm where he gained experience in operations design and effectiveness, efficiency improvements and supply chain optimization. He began his career at Gain Capital Group, focused on foreign currency trading.
Justin earned his Bachelor of Science in International Business from Elizabethtown College and Bachelor of Arts in International Management from the ICN École de Management in Nancy, France.
Stefan co-founded NettekFirst a digital marketing, web development, and design company that built, scaled, and managed DTC brands. He earlier served as a commodities trader at CQR Capital and held is series 3, 63 and 55 licenses.
For the past seven years, Marc has served as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Blink Fitness, a fast-growing national fitness company with both traditional gym locations and digital offerings. He served as an integral member of Blink’s executive committee, which oversaw the growth of the company from 20 to 107 locations nationwide. He also led the ground-up build of the finance and operational departments reporting to him.
At Blink, he was responsible for leading numerous financial and strategic initiatives during his tenure, including multi-hundred-million-dollar capital market transactions, M&A, joint ventures, and pricing initiatives, and helping to successfully steer the company’s national expansion.
Prior to Blink, he served as senior manager of corporate finance at Ann, Inc., a $2 billion public specialty women’s retailer with more than 1,000 locations, four divisions (Ann Taylor, LOFT, Ann Taylor Factory, and LOFT Outlet), and e-Commerce and global manufacturing operations.
Marc earlier served as director of financial reporting, planning and analysis at Partsearch Technologies, a private equity-backed consumer electronics and home appliance parts and accessories company.
Earlier in his career, Marc served as manager of finance, accounting and global planning at Fortent, a security and tech company specializing in risk, compliance, and financial crime prevention. He also served as a senior financial analyst for Businessweek, a unit of McGraw Hill, and in a similar capacity at NetJets, the leading provider of fractional and private aviation services worldwide and a Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company.
Marc earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in finance with honors from Baruch College in New York City. He currently serves on the board of directors of Baruch College Alumni Association, after earlier serving as president and treasurer.
Brad was also part of the strategic investor group that participated in a LifeMD's $3.5 million equity funding that was completed in August.
Prior to Circadian Funding, he served as COO at Utility Partners of America, a leading provider of project and operational management services for U.S. utilities. After joining the company, he played an instrumental role in laying the foundation and strategy for future growth. This included the build-out of a 200-seat call center and forming key new industry partnerships.
Brad earlier served as president of Ashton Benefits, a leading employee benefits company, and he served as COO of Claims Recovery Group, a provider of specialized professional audit expertise.
He also served in various roles with increasing responsibility and ultimately became a director at Educational Direct, a leading consolidator of federal student loans, where he helped build its teams and processes as well as operate its call center and sales division. Before Educational Direct, he was a portfolio analyst at the institutional sales desk of Royal Bank of Canada.
Brad holds a B.S. in Finance from Stockton University and received an MBA diploma from NYU Stern School of Business.
He previous served as the head media buyer at Cheviot Capital and as a digital marketing specialist at Internet Brands. At Internet Brands, he was responsible for high profile sites that included Lawyers.com and Carsdirect.com. Together, he was responsible for more than $100 million in paid media budgets.
Nick earned his undergraduate degree from Loyola Marymount University.
Bryant previously served as chief digital officer at Advanced Vita Supplements (AVS), a direct response nutraceutical company and an official global licensee of Playboy Enterprise’s sexual wellness supplements. At AVS, he was responsible for creating targeted campaigns that increased brand awareness and customer conversions, and he led the launch of the company’s subscription-based business.
Prior to AVS, Bryant was vice president of Atlantic Coast Brands, an ‘Inc. 500’ omni-channel international beauty company that has serviced more than 10 million customers worldwide and generated $1 billion in revenue overall. He led the company’s digital marketing campaigns for its hair regrowth system for women which attracted more than 1 million customers and generated $500 million in revenue. He also grew Atlantic’s subscription-based business, adding 60,000 subscriptions per month on average over nine years.
Earlier in his career, Hussey served as a marketing director for a division of Ardis Health, an international eCommerce company, where he focused on the digital marketing of direct-to-consumer diet products. He oversaw the company’s media distribution channels and customer acquisition in the U.S. and assisted in product and business development.
Bryant received his B.A. in Economics at Saint Peter’s University, and completed professional studies programs in Integrated Marketing at New York University. He is a certified Google Advertising Professional, and regularly speaks at lead generation and performance marketing events, including LeadsCon and Affiliate Summit.
For nine years Bryant has served on the board of trustees for the House of Faith, a non-profit organization dedicated to transitional housing programs for the homeless.
Dr. Puopolo founded Integrative Wellness Medical Group where he specialized in wellness coaching, pharmacological management and psychotherapy. He previously served as a physician at Sharp Rees Stealy Medical Group, where he provided to more than 2,000 patients an individual-focused approach to health care.
Dr. Puopolo completed an intensive wellness fellowship with the acclaimed Dr. Andrew Weil, the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Working alongside Dr. Weil, he received in-depth training on strain-counterstain techniques, herbal medicines and dietary supplements, nutritional education and lifestyle medicine.
Dr. Puopolo earlier served in several positions at 121 General Hospital in South Korea, including as chief of inpatient psychiatric ward, medical director of its alcohol treatment center, and as a family practice staff physician. As an Army Major, he served as the chief psychiatrist and officer-in-charge at the U.S. Army’s Camp Casey Troop Medical Clinic in South Korea which provided mental health services to the 2nd Infantry Division.
He earned his B.A. in Biology from Tufts University, M.A. in Biology from Boston University, and Doctor of Medicine from the Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the Tripler Army Medical Center, the largest Army medical treatment facility in the Pacific Basin, where he received the Army C.A.R.E.S Award for “caring, attentive, responsive, empathetic, and supportive care.”
Dr. Puopolo is a member of the American Board of Family Medicine and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing International Association (EMDRIA).
He is an expert in direct response marketing, specializing in the legal, lifestyle and software as a service (SAAS) verticals. He served as head of customer acquisition at BOLD, an online provider of employment services for jobseekers and recruiters.
At BOLD, he formed a newly integrated department that tripled the company’s net revenue in four years. He led a 20-person customer acquisition team that included SEM, SEO, affiliate marketing, social marketing and content marketing specialists involved in the B2C and B2B markets.
Eric specialized in patent, trade secret, trademark, false advertising, anti-competitive, counterfeiting, and regulatory cases across a broad range of technical disciplines. He has extensive knowledge and experience with the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act, which establishes a commercial approval pathway for generic drug products through submission of an abbreviated new drug application. He is also experienced in contract, tort, bankruptcy, real estate, and corporate transactions.
Prior to Holland & Knight, Eric was a senior patent litigation associate at Goodwin Procter, where he was responsible for running day-to-day strategy and management of billion-dollar IP cases, as well as negotiating settlement and licensing agreements on behalf of life science companies.
Eric received his Doctor of Law, specializing in intellectual property, from the New York University School of Law. He received his B.A. and M.A. in biology, molecular concentration, from the University of Pennsylvania. He regularly speaks and publishes about intellectual property law.
Prior to joining LifeMD, he founded and served as CIO of Paradigm Opportunities, a privately held investment firm focused on evaluating public companies in the Healthcare sector. At Paradigm Opportunities, he sought investment opportunities in companies that were fundamentally undervalued and used a top-down approach to identify investment themes with attractive industry tailwinds.
Corey specializes in marketplace interactions and risk and performance analysis for healthcare companies. He has held multiple leadership roles at private equity investment firms and investment banks, and focused exclusively on creating long-term value for market leaders in the healthcare sector.
Corey received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
He has been responsible for the design and implementation of event-driven and microservice style architectures. He is a self-described “obsessed” technical leader with a passion for growing cross-functional teams and delivering strengthened business capabilities. He has a unique ability to recognize areas in need of improvement and solve those constrained optimization problems locally, globally and iteratively across the entire enterprise.
Varun graduated from the Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering.
Prior to JLS Ventures, Justin operated a consultancy that provided advisory services and capital formation to private and public companies. He co-founded a nationally recognized healthcare finance conference that attracted more than 1,500 attendees and 150 senior corporate leaders.
He previously worked for a global healthcare consulting firm where he gained experience in operations design and effectiveness, efficiency improvements and supply chain optimization. He began his career at Gain Capital Group, focused on foreign currency trading.
Justin earned his Bachelor of Science in International Business from Elizabethtown College and Bachelor of Arts in International Management from the ICN École de Management in Nancy, France.
Stefan co-founded NettekFirst a digital marketing, web development, and design company that built, scaled, and managed DTC brands. He earlier served as a commodities trader at CQR Capital and held is series 3, 63 and 55 licenses.
John received his Juris Doctor from the University of Texas Law School and his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.
Dr. DiTrilio earlier served as the medical director of Unitron Medical Communications and chairman of the urology department at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.
He received undergraduate degrees from the University of Richmond and Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, and this doctorate from New Jersey Medical School.
Happy has produced more than 20 films and television productions, such as “We’re the Millers,” “One in a Billion,” and the Grammy-nominated, “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead.” He has also supervised and created soundtracks for more than 80 films, including the blockbusters “The Fighter,” “The Big Lebowski,” “American Pie,” and “Blade II.”
He has served as a director of several family-owned companies involved in the wine, logistics, industrial and financial industries in Belgium, France and the UK. Bertrand is also a managing director and co-founder of a family office that trades IPOs, equities, and forex securities.
His undergraduate business and managerial economics studies were completed at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium's largest French-speaking university.
He currently serves as CFO of WEX (NYSE:WEX), a $6+ billion fintech services provider. He previously served as CFO of Revlon (NYSE:REV), overseeing the global finance and IT operations of the top beauty brand as it grew to nearly $2 billion in annual sales.
Prior to Revlon, Roberto held several senior roles and lastly as CFO of The Colomer Group, a private equity-owned beauty care company with $600 million in annual revenue. He was responsible for Colomer's SAP, finance operations, integrations, acquisitions and divestments. He led the sale of Colomer to Revlon, and the integration of its financial and IT operations post-merger.
Roberto speaks five languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, French and Catalan. He holds bachelor's degrees in business administration, and an MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona.
She later became director of the White House Medical Unit and served for nine years at the White House as physician to three sitting presidents.
After leaving the White House, Dr. Mariano became a consultant in the executive health program at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she provided holistic health evaluations for senior executives. She later founded the Center for Executive Medicine, a concierge medical practice that provides ‘presidential-quality’ care to CEOs and their families.
She earned her bachelor’s degree with honors from Revelle College at the University of California, San Diego. She received her medical degree from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, where she was commissioned as a U.S. Navy lieutenant upon graduation.
He has dedicated his research to the microbial interaction between the human immune system and surrounding environment. His research has been featured in leading news outlets, including HBO, Vice, Ted Talks and PBS.
Dr. Gilbert participated in a video series discussing the microbiome, immune system, and the scientific rational behind beta glucan’s ability to support immune health. He was listed as one of the 50 most influential scientists by Business Insider and has also co-authored “Dirt is Good,” a popular science guide to the microbiome and children’s health.
She is a faculty member for The Institute for Functional Medicine, and the Metabolic Medicine Institute fellowship program. She serves as the board secretary for the Accreditation Council for Professional Nutrition Education (ACNPE), as well as serves on the board for the American Nutrition Association. She is an advisory board member for both the Certified International Health Coaches and the Autism Hope Alliance.
Dr. Lipski has been a co-author in peer-reviewed papers and is the author of several books: Digestive Wellness (5th edition), Digestion Connection, Digestive Wellness for Children, and Leaky Gut Syndrome.
Dr. Lipski holds a PhD in Clinical Nutrition and is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN). She also holds two board certifications in clinical nutrition (CNS and BCHN) and one in functional medicine (IFMCP).
Dr. Shapiro is a board-certified dermatologist specializing in multiple laser procedures, reconstructive skin cancer surgery and the latest in cosmetic and dermatological procedures.
He is an active member of the American Society of Mohs Surgery, American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, American Society of Dermatology, the Florida Society of Dermatology, American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery, International Society of Police Surgeons, and the Palm Beach County Medical Society.
Dr. Shapiro serves as chairman of the board for Healthcare Underwriters’ Group (HUG), a physician-owned medical malpractice company. He performs various clinical and FDA studies for related to skin conditions and repair, including photo rejuvenation and tissue tightening. He is an expert commentator for various television stations.
Dr. Shapiro received his degree in medicine from UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School. His internship in internal medicine was completed at Hahnemann University followed by a residency in dermatology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He currently is a volunteer associate professor in the department of dermatology and cutaneous surgery, and member of the residency advisory board, at the Miami School of Medicine.
He is an active member of several associations, including the American Medical Association, American Academy of Dermatology, Florida Society of Dermatology, Florida Society of Dermatologic Surgeons, and the Palm Beach County Dermatology Society.
Dr. Borenstein joined Gardens Dermatology as a dermatologist after completing his internship in Internal Medicine and residency in Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
He received his B.A. from Columbia University and medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He also completed his Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Miami.
She is a member of the American Board of Dermatology and American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Ramirez graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Puerto Rico where she also completed her residency. She has received several awards for her research and the practice of medicine.
He has assisted these organizations in developing and implementing successful loss control and risk management programs. As a registered patent attorney with the USPTO, and he also serves as the intellectual property officer for the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Christopher became an early seed investor in LifeMD's PDFSimpli subsidiary, and continues to provide strategic consulting and guidance.
He earlier served as the CO and general counsel of Zenti, which develops natural language processing software. He was responsible for all operations and legal activities at Zenti, including contracts, licensing, intellectual property, employment, equipment, immigration, and private funding rounds.
Christopher began his career as an investigator for the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering at San Jose State University and received his Doctor of Law from the Monterey College of Law.
He currently serves as the CEO of Iversen Design, a professional website design agency, where he is responsible for customizing business’ website integrated with a full content management system.
Jordan co-founded PDFSimpli and is co-owner of the Vino Cruz Wine Bar & Restaurant in Santa Cruz, California. He received his B.A. degree in ___ from the University of Alaska.
He has an extensive record of medical experience, research and accomplishment. Board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Toll completed his medical training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, which ranks among the top 10 hospitals in the country.
Dr. Toll’s Los Angeles-based private practice is focused on delivering integrated preventive care. His holistic approach provides highly personalized care that caters to each patient’s whole health, including mind, body and soul.
Dr. Toll is also a volunteer faculty member at Cedars-Sinai Internal Medicine Residency, teaching interns, residents and UCLA medical students. His medical research has been published in the areas of medical genetics, cancer and addiction.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California and medical doctorate from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. A popular influencer on social media, Dr. Toll has more than 38,000 followers on his Instagram.
Dr. Fine has practiced medicine and lectured in cities across the globe, including Oslo, Sydney, Nagasaki, and Tel Aviv. Board certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Fine completed his medical training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, which is ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the country. The hospital appointed Dr. Fine as its Chief Resident to teach physicians and medical students the art of medicine.
Dr. Fine has been a clinical instructor of medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Keck School of Medicine of USC, and served on the bioethics committee and the medical informatics committee at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Biology from UCLA and Yeshiva University, and medical degree from the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv.