Management Team and Board of Directors
Jim Holmes
Chairman of the Board & CEO
Mr. Holmes serves and has served on the board of directors of numerous public and private companies. He holds or has held positions of chief executive officer, chief financial officer providing management support in executive, administrative, financial and marketing functions. Currently he is president of Carson Capital Management, Inc., a management, merger/acquisition and investment banking consulting firm. His background includes corporate mergers/acquisitions, having consolidated, financed, or listed over a dozen companies.Mr. Holmes has formerly served as assistant controller of Bio Rad Labs(NYE); CEO of Harvest Industries(OTC); vice-president of North Coast Investments, a venture capital firm and on the audit staff of Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Mr. Holmes is a mentor and judge in the University of Notre Dame’s business plan competition program. He has been a guest speaker at San Jose State-DeAnza College’s Entrepreneurial Incubator program and guest lecturer at University of Nevada, Reno’s Business Development, and Venture Capital program. He completed graduate studies at Golden Gate University’s MBA program and holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business from San Jose State University, and has also completed Stanford’s Advance Management College. Mr. Holmes is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Financial Economics at Rushmore University.
Matt Benardis
VP Operations
Mr. Benardis is a significant investor in the company and CEO. Mr. Benardis undertook daily operations since inception with a focus on product and market development, as well as fundraising, IP management, strategic planning, and acts as management representative for the Cyrcadia Quality Assurance program. Recently, Mr. Benardis’ role has evolved to focus on upcoming product releases in his position as Internal Regulatory Agent and has been voted to the Board of Directors.
Mr. Benardis has been with the company since its inception in 2008 serving a number of critical functions within the organization as Cyrcadia converts from research and development to market deployment.
Kevin Buckman MD FAAIM, DABUCM, MRO.
Chief Medical Advisor
Dr. Buckman was previously the CEO of Lifeline BioTechnologies, Inc. a publicly traded company, (now known as Cyrcadia, Inc). He has been very interested in finding solutions for breast cancer and has written a book called, “Find and Stop Breast Cancer.” He has had vast clinical as well as research experience and manages a Wellness Health Program at Adventist Health Lodi Memorial Hospital. He currently serves as Chief Medical Advisor for Cyrcadia, Inc. In the last 2 decades he has attended many tumor marker and cancer conferences and expos.Dr. Buckman has over 34 years of Emergency Medicine Experience. He is currently a Physician in Lodi. He began working ER’s in 1979, and Occupational Health since 1980. He has served as Medical Director or Associate Medical Director in hospitals and institutions for over 20 years and has over 39 years of clinical experience. He has served Medical Director in the Emergency Department and as a member of the Executive Committee for six years at St. Dominic’s Hospital in Manteca, California. He also served as Director of the Emergency Department at Navy Lemoore Hospital in California.
From 1986 to 1997 there were more than 50 Physicians on his Emergency Medicine roster under his Directorship at various hospitals. He also served as Medical Director for Dameron Hospital EMS Liaison from 2002 to 2003. He became Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and a Fellow of the American Board of Emergency Medicine in 1990. He has served as Associate Director of Emergency Medicine at Lodi Memorial Hospital and St. Joseph’s Medical Center. He has been an Attending Physician in the teaching program for Residents and Interns at San Joaquin County Hospital in the field of Emergency Medicine and International Medicine. He has received numerous Certifications and Specialty Training in the field of Medicine. He was a Fellow in the American Association of Integrated Medicine, and is a Board Certified Medical Review Officer. His other Specialties include: Internal Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. He became Board Certified in Urgent Care Medicine and a Diplomat in 2006 by the American Board of Urgent Care Medicine and continues to be Board Certified. He is certified by the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners, and Certified as a Medical Review Officer by AAMRO.
He is currently serving on the Industry Advisory Board for the University of Pacific School of Engineering and Computer Science and a Visiting Professor, Bioengineering, University of Pacific School of Engineering and Computer Science.
He has over 40 years of hospital experience and has served on over 15 hospital committees, and has served as Medical Director or Associate Director at Multiple Institutions. In May, 2018 he received the “Healing Hands Award” from Adventist Health.
Vinitha Sree Subbhuraam, Ph.D.
Director – Customer Analytic Core Lab
Vinitha has over ten years of experience in the medical analytics field, and has applied predictive analytics for designing clinical decision support systems for the detection of diseases like carotid atherosclerosis, fatty liver, diabetes, epilepsy, and cancers in the thyroid, breast, ovaries and prostate. Her primary focus is on developing early detection techniques for breast cancer. During her doctoral study at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, she used data mining strategies to evaluate an adjunct breast cancer detection modality that used skin surface electropotentials for analysis. Subsequently, as a Research Associate at NTU, she studied Cyrcadia’s initial clinical trial datasets, used data mining techniques to understand the skin surface temperature pattern differences between benign and malignant breast cancer cases, and developed an effective predictive model to detect the presence of cancer. She has collaborated with leading research institutions and hospitals in the world, and has successfully liaised with scientists from North America, Europe and Asia Pacific to establish a global network to continue her efforts in breast cancer research.Dr. Sree has published 88 journal papers, conference articles and book chapters, and her work is internationally recognized by her peers as evidenced by more than 725 citations to her work. She is the co-editor of the book Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Breast Imaging published by SPIE, USA, 2012. She is the associate editor of the Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (JMIHI), and an invited reviewer for several international journals such as International Journal of Thermal Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Physical Review, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, Neural Computing and Applications, and Neurocomputing. She holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from NTU, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from PSG College of Technology, India. Dr. Sree’s biographical profile has been included twice in Marquis Who’s Who in the World (2011 and 2014 editions).
Shyamali Mallick Singhal, MD, PhD, FACS
Acting Chief Medical Officer, Board of Directors, Founding Director and Surgical Oncologist at El Camino Cancer Hospital, Mt. View CA
Dr. Singhal is originally from San Mateo and went to Baltimore to receive her undergraduate degree in Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University. She then attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York where she completed her M.D. program while also receiving a Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology. Dr. Singhal has extensive training in the cellular and molecular bases for cancer as well as the chemo, radiological, and surgical treatment of the disease, providing Dr. Singhal with a comprehensive view of cancer and a better opportunity to treat the disease.
When Dr. Singhal was completing her residency, she was amazed by the incredible improvement that complex surgery could have on health of cancer patients. This inspired her to focus her medical career on surgical oncology. She went on to complete a fellowship in Surgical Oncology at the City of Hope National Cancer Center, a leader in Minimally Invasive Surgical Oncology (MISO). Her research there focused on discovering the interactions of chemotherapy and a wide spectrum of natural agents, and the impact on liver function. She completed her Surgical Residency at the University of Washington in Seattle in one of the nation’s top surgical training programs. Dr. Singhal completed her M.D. and Ph.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She completed her PhD there in the department of Molecular Pharmacology with the thesis, Studies in the Regulation of the mdr1b gene by Progesterone.
John Moriarty
Board of Directors
John Moriarty is an entrepreneur, real estate developer and investor. In the early 1990’s, John built and operated an amusement/thrill park in Biloxi, Mississippi. In 1997 he developed and owned the “Ultimate Rush Thrill Park” at the Reno Hilton Hotel & Casino in Reno, Nevada. In 2006, John was a partner and investor in the group that purchased the Reno Hilton Hotel and Casino from Caesar’s Entertainment at a price of $150 million and rebranded the hotel as the Grand Sierra Resort. In 2012, John sold his Ultimate Rush Thrill Park to the current owners of the Grand Sierra Resort.
John resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he developed and owns the two of the largest sushi bars in the state known as “Simply Sushi.” He has pioneered, through Simply Sushi, the endless sushi concept and is currently working on expanding into the wholesale sushi market supplying fresh sushi to over 40 supermarkets.
John first invested in Cyrcadia Health over three years ago. In the last year he became a major investor in the company. He has contributed countless hours and business expertise to assist in the fast tracking of the IT Bra to market. As a board member, John’s focus is to represent the numerous small investors who have helped finance the development of Cyrcadia Health’s innovative IT Bra. John received his BA in Economics and his MBA in Finance from the University of Wisconsin.
Julia Mills, MS
VP Business Development & Physician Liaison
Julia Mills provides strategic guidance on growth, partnerships and product commercialization, based on extensive experience in the Medical Device, Diagnostic, Digital Health and Biotech Industries. She spearheads and supports a wide range of initiatives, including: funding, virtual and capital efficient business models, strategic acquisitions and partnerships, new product launches, key opinion leader (KOL) strategy, sales training, digital marketing tools and customer relationship management (CRM) design and implementation. In addition, Julia specializes in developing ‘go-to-market’ sales and marketing strategies, with a focus on strategic solutions to help accelerate revenue and increase profitability.Julia spent 10 years as an award-winning pharmaceutical, medical device sales and sales training professional, working for two global companies, Sanofi-Aventis and Forest Pharmaceuticals. She has direct experience selling into hospitals, surgery centers, specialty medical clinics, primary care, long-term care, pediatric, urgent care, pharmacy and laboratory.
Julia has sold products and trained sales teams in the following specialties: Allergy & Asthma, Cardiology, Central Nervous System (CNS), Dermatology, Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT), Geriatric, Health, Wellness & Nutrition (Nutrigenomic Nrf2 activators), Internal Medicine, Neurology, Oncology, Orthopedic, Pain Management, Pharmacokinetic DNA Testing, Plastic Surgery, Primary Care, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, Respiratory, Rheumatology, Urgent Care, and Women’s Health Ob/Gyn.