Our Team

Jim Ham, President and Chief Executive Officer

Paul Kamman, Chief Financial Officer

Joe Collins, Vice President, Manufacturing, Co-Founder

Kellie Kaseburg, MS, Vice President, Global Marketing

Charlie Jackson, Director of Sales

Vishal Mehta, Vice President, MIS & Logistics

Ramazan Benrashid, Director of Research & Development

Gary Edwards, OD, FAAO, Vice President, Clinical Affairs

Jim Ham,
President and Chief Executive Officer

With over 25 years of management experience with global healthcare companies, Jim is ideally suited to lead SynergEyes®, Inc.'s world-wide product launch activities. Most recently he was CEO and President of Kinetikos Medical, Inc. (KMI), which was acquired by Integra Life Sciences (IART). Jim led Kinetikos Medical from start up to a successful liquidity event: the company had 12 products in the market and more in the product development pipeline at the time of the sale.

Prior to Kinetikos Medical, Jim spent nine years at Allergan (AGN) in various senior management roles within the sales and marketing departments. His experience working with new technologies in emerging markets will be an integral part of SynergEyes'® international growth in coming years.

Paul Kamman,
Chief Financial Officer

Paul brings to SynergEyes more than 25 years of financial and management experience with medical and high-technology companies. Most recently, he was the CFO of Airgain, Inc., an early stage company developing smart antenna technology and products for the wireless and home entertainment industries. Previously he was CFO and COO of Kinetikos Medical, Inc. (KMI), which was acquired by Integra Life Sciences (IART). Kammann was with KMI for five years and managed its successful liquidity event valued at over $40 million.

Paul started his career with Deloitte & Touche (formerly Touche Ross) where he became a CPA, then worked in a number of high-technology companies in various financial and management positions and has now brought his experience to SynergEyes to help us meet the market demand for hybrid technology.

Joe Collins
Vice President, Manufacturing, Co-Founder

Joe brings 26 years of contact lens manufacturing experience to the SynergEyes® team, including roles as the first Process Engineer for the premium CSI contact lens brand, project leader on successful manufacturing automation systems at WJ, and engineering management at Syntex Ophthalmics, Sola and Pilkington Barnes Hind and Wesley Jessen.

As a respected industry veteran Joe has provided consulting for Allergan Inc, and Addition Technology, Inc. Joe's experience in process engineering, advanced automation systems, lens design and manufacturing equip him with the skills necessary to manage the complex operations for the production of the premium SynergEyes® products.

Kellie Kaseburg, MS
Vice President, Global Marketing

Kellie is responsible for the overall strategic marketing for the SynergEyes® family of products.

Prior to her current appointment, Kellie held various senior positions in marketing, business development and engineering at Northrop Grumman Corporation, a $30 billion global technology company, where she provided leadership in the development of new products and strategic markets.

A monocular patient herself, Kellie is a SynergEyes® Hybrid contact lens wearer and is both passionate and committed to helping others enjoy vision.

Charlie Jackson
Director of Sales

Charlie brings to SynergEyes® over 10 years of sales, sales training, and sales management experience. Most recently coming from CIBA Vision a Novartis Company where he managed the southern US market for the lens care division.

In his current role at SynergEyes®, Charlie has helped put together a team of high performing, highly motivated sales professionals that understand the importance of the consultative sell, focusing on both the technical and practice management benefits of the SynergEyes® product offering.

Vishal Mehta
Vice President, MIS & Logistics

Vishal brings to SynergEyes® 13 years of experience in the Automation, Manufacturing and IT industries. He previously has held positions in project engineering, project management, logistics and IT management for Honeywell, Johnson controls, Polaris Software and most recently Trend Technologies.

Vishal's vast exposure to various business processes in the manufacturing industry, coupled with an in-depth understanding of IT, enables him to provide leadership and direction to the SynergEyes® Operations and IT Groups.

Ramazan Benrashid,
Director of Research & Development

Having authored more than 30 scientific publications and holding 5 patents, Dr. Ramazan Benrashid has been instrumental in developing HyperBond™, the bonding technology for SynergEyes® contact lenses.

After earning his PhD in polymer chemistry from Polytechnic University, Ramazan gained expertise as a senior polymer chemist at CibaVision. Prior to joining the SynergEyes® Team in 2005 as Director of Research and Development, he was the Director of Research and Development at Waveguide Solutions.

Gary Edwards, OD, FAAO
Vice President, Clinical Affairs

Dr. Edwards brings to SynergEyes® over twenty-five years experience in healthcare, and has been involved in several "firsts" in ophthalmic medical devices. His industry experience includes Saturn II, the original two-phase hybrid contact lens, and the application of ophthalmic wavefront analysis to the contact lens industry. A founder of Specialty UltraVision, his group developed Epicon, a large diameter RGP for Keratoconus, and Specialty Choice AB, the first disposable aberration-blocking contact lens. Dr. Edwards is a member of the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society and is a recognized author and lecturer, and a fourth generation optometrist.