Reflex

Kurtis Sluss is an engineer, inventor, and TechCrunch Disrupt Alumnus. His background is in chemical engineering and organic chemistry from Purdue University with a focus on novel drug design and disease detection methods. An interest in advanced programming and its application in medicine led him to create a novel method to detect and classify cancerous proteins through machine learning. Now, Kurtis is translating this knowledge to neuro-biomechanical evaluations using a mobile phone. He leads Brightlamp as co-Founder and CEO to maintain the vision of creating affordable diagnostic technologies on a global scale.

Michael Heims serves as the Chief Financial Officer at brightlamp. Previously to brightlamp, Michael worked at Eli Lilly and Company as a Financial Analyst managing a budget of more than $200M. Michael left Lilly to join a role with a medium-sized private equity firm, where he grew a portfolio company from $2M in EBITDA to over $30M in less than 2 years by working as the sole acquisition advisor. While there, he contributed to a variety of aspects of due diligence of prospective companies, from quality of earnings to forecasting models, and everything in between.