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About

I’m Bryan Stephens. I’m half nerd (Physics PhD) and half commercialization expert.  I’ve spent 20 years building, launching, and scaling technology products in the Human and Veterinary Health industries. 

I’ve helped:

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  • Scale an Emerging Tech division from $0 to $7M/year in 4 years

  • Sell $1B+ in imaging equipment by streamlining technical & marketing strategy

  • Architect CRM/ERP/QA systems across 9-figure corporate mergers

  • Educate global salesforces and clinical teams across 25+ international conferences

  • Get IP issued, systems integrated, and markets launched in 4 continents

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My approach is rooted in clarity, consistency, and commercial utility. I speak both engineering and investor fluently. I build systems with storytelling in mind. And I show up with a point of view that makes your product stronger, faster.

A Little More About Me...

We live just south of Nashville, Tennessee. I'm a proud hockey dad to two boys - Quinn (13) and Cooper (10). My longtime girlfriend is a passionate amateur animal rescuer, which means I’ve taken on the unofficial role of house cleaner for our petting zoo: four cats (Smalls, Stevie Wonder, Billie Eyeless, and King George) and a Dalmatian named Knox.

 

During the pandemic, I started doing escape rooms with my oldest son, and what began as a fun diversion turned into a serious hobby for all of us. Together, we've completed over 75 escape rooms across the country, boasting a 98% success rate. I’m also a bourbon enthusiast and a self-taught aspiring craftsman - I even built a full home bar from reclaimed Jack Daniel’s barrels.

Patents, Publications, & Presentations

PATENTS:

  • US Patent 10,98.723 02. Phototherapy Device With Real-Time Morphologic Feedback And Guidance. Granted Jan 2, 2021.

BOOKS:

  • B.J. Stephens & Maria Suarez Redondo (2019). Veterinary Laser Therapy in Small Animal Practice. 5m Publishing, UK.

  • B.J. Stephens (2010) Holmium-161 + IUdR: Optimized Photon Activation Therapy. Vanderbilt Univ. Press

BOOK CHAPTERS:

  • B.J. Stephens (2017). Laser Physics for Veterinary Medicine. in Goldbold & Reigel (Eds.), Laser Therapy in Veterinary Medicine. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.

  • B.J. Stephens & L.R. Jones (2016). Tissue Optics. in Hamblin, Michael R. Handbook of Low-level Laser Therapy Singapore: Pan Stanford, 2016.

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

  • B.J. Stephens and M.H. Mendenhall. Optimized Radiosensitization of HT-29 Cells In Vitro Via Holmium Brachytherapy Activation of Iododeoxyuridine. Radiation Research. Pre-Print, 2010.

  • B.J. Stephens and M.H. Mendenhall. Radioactive Holmium-161 Produced Using 11.6 MeV Protons: A Practical Source of Narrow-band X-rays. Applied Radiation Isotopes. 68: 1928-1932,2010.

  • Peng, L., Stephens, B. J., Bonin, K., Cubicciotti, R., Guthold, M., (2007) “NanoSelection® – a Novel, Single-Cycle Method to Select Individual Aptamer Species from a Small Pool of Random Oligonucleotides”  Microscopy Research and Technique 70, 372-381.

  • M. Guthold, W. Liu, B.J. Stephens, S.T. Lord, R.R. Hangtan, D.A. Erie, R.M. Talyor, and R. Superfine. Visualization and Mechanical Manipulations of Individual Fibrin Fibers Suggest that Fiber Cross Section has Fractal Dimension 1.3. Biophysics Journal, 87:4226–4236, 2004.

INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS: 

  • IVLTS (International Veterinary Laser Therapy Symposium), Barcelona, Spain, October 16, 2014.

  • AMVAC (Asociación Madrileña de Veterinarios de Animales de Compañia; in Spanish), Madrid, Spain, March 7, 2013.

  • Western Veterinary Conference (450 attendees), Las Vegas, Nevada, February 19, 2013.

  • AARV (American Association of Rehab Veterinarians) Symposium at NAVC, Orlando, Florida, January, 2013.

  • Southern European Veterinary Conference (in Spanish), Barcelona, Spain, October 2012.

  • Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2011. 

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