Tom Gentile Tom Gentile was named president and chief executive officer of Spirit AeroSystems in August 2016. Spirit AeroSystems is an $8 billion global leader in the manufacture of structures for commercial and military aircraft. Prior to Spirit, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of GE Capital. Before this role, Gentile was president and CEO of GE Healthcare Systems, a $14 billion diagnostic imaging business. He also served as president and CEO of GE Aviation Services, a $7 billion global enterprise providing maintenance, repair, and overhaul as well as spare parts to GE Aviation’s global [...]

Peter Foss Interview Peter Foss retired from GE in March of 2013, after completing a 36-year career. He returned to GE in November of 2013, joining the GE Healthcare team to be responsible for the GE/NFL brain research effort, which he was instrumental in starting before his retirement. During Foss's career at GE he held many positions, the last of which was President, Olympic Sponsorship and Corporate Sales, a post he held from 2003 until his retirement in 2013. In addition to his work with GE's global Olympic Sponsorship and interface with the NFL, while at GE [...]

Randy Fishman Randy Fishman is a member of the Board of Directors of Citymeals on Wheels, and New York City Ballet. Mrs. Fishman also devotes much of her time to continuing the work that she and her late husband, Jay S. Fishman, began in support of ALS research projects and patient care programs for the ALS community. She is co-founder and member of the Advisory Board of Answer ALS. In addition, Mrs. Fishman is a founder and key advisor to both the ALS Augmentative Communication Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Home Assisted Ventilation Program at [...]

Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD, F.A.C.S Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD, F.A.C.S is the Chair and the Theodore Roberts Endowed Professor of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. In addition, he is Director of the Neurological Surgery Residency Program and Director of the UW Medicine Neurosciences Institute. His numerous clinical interests include pediatric and adult brain tumors, trauma surgery, congenital malformations, and minimally invasive endoscopic brain surgery. Dr. Ellenbogen has served as Chair, American Board of Neurological Surgeons; President, Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS); President, The American Society of Pediatric Neurological Surgery; [...]

Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc Interview Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc is the Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital Neurology Service, Director, Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Cudkowicz is co-founder and former director of the Neurological Clinical Research Institute (NCRI). She is one of the founders and former co-directors of the Northeast ALS Consortium (NEALS), a group of over 100 clinical sites in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East dedicated to performing collaborative academic led [...]

Robert H. Brown Jr., MD, DPhil Robert H. Brown Jr., MD, DPhil is the director of the Program in Neurotherapeutics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Brown is an internationally known researcher and clinician leading the quest to cure neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Dr. Brown founded the Day Neuromuscular Laboratory in 1984 to investigate neuromuscular diseases, and continues his work with the Day Lab today at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In 1993, a team of researchers led by Dr. Brown discovered the [...]

Stanley H. Appel, MD Interview Stanley H. Appel, MD is the Peggy and Gary Edwards Distinguished Endowed Chair for ALS Research, Chair of the Stanley H. Appel Department of Neurology and Co-Director of the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute. He also serves as Director of the MDA/ALSA ALS Research Clinical Center at Houston Methodist Hospital, and is Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College. In August 2020, he was named Director of the Johnson Center for Cellular Therapeutics at the Houston Methodist Research Institute. Research in Dr. Appel’s laboratory has focused on the role of inflammation in [...]

Leandro P. Rizzuto Lee Rizzuto grew up in Brooklyn, New York, son of Italian immigrants, both active members of the large and bustling New York City hair salon community. He attended Brooklyn Tech and graduated in 1956. In 1959, Lee and his parents invested $100 to launch Continental Hair Products. The company quickly grew into a trusted source of innovative and affordable products for professional stylists, including the iconic pistol grip hairdryer. Lee's passion for product drove his business, and following his success in the professional arena, he began marketing products to consumers. A relationship with Vidal [...]