Leadership Team

Management Team

DEAN E. BURNS
President and CEO

  • Business executive, scientist and medical device brand marketing expert with over 38 years of healthcare experience, including 27 years in eyecare.
  • Graduate of Bowling Green University with a BSc in Chemistry and Microbiology.
  • Comprehensive business leadership certification from The Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Comprehensive marketing certification from Columbia Business School, Columbia University.
  • Founder and CEO of Grit Marketing in Alpharetta, Georgia.
  • Former Senior Director at Alcon Vision Cataract Instrumentation and Disposable Technologies ($750M).
  • Former Director of Refractive and Vitreoretinal Technologies ($100M).
  • Skilled in marketing, sales management, medical and biotechnology devices, regulatory process and advocacy development.
  • Awarded 15 industry commercialization/marketing achievement awards, 15 FDA product approvals, 3 medical publications and 1 significant donation to the non-profit organization ORBIS.

DR. GARTH WEBB
FOUNDER AND CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER

  • Founder of Ocumetics with a mission to empower people to see and better experience the world.
  • 45 years of experience in clinical eye care and applied vision science helping thousands of patients.
  • Cofounded Complete Eye Care Optometry Clinic, one of Canada’s largest group practice of optometry.
  • Sole inventor of the Bionic Lens™ and related intellectual property platform.
  • Pioneer in the life enhancing field of medical optics and refractive technologies.
  • Founder of the Celebration of Sight Initiative, a not-for-profit organization commissioned to support three areas of critical need: reforestation/conservation, community services and consumer advocacy.
  • Founder of VENTURA Health Sciences Corporation in 2008 to develop state-of-the-art functional dietary supplements that slow the progression of degenerative eye conditions. Recent developments have demonstrated promise in stimulating and propagating intracellular repair.
  • Pioneered and successfully commercialized delivery systems for non-preserved liquid pharmaceuticals thereby promoting better healing without any complications from contact.
  • Served as the youngest Chairperson on record for the Board of Examiners in Optometry, British Columbia, Canada.
Dr. Garth Webb

DR. DOYLE STULTING
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER

  • Director of the Stulting Research Center, Woolfson Eye Institute, Atlanta, GA.
  • Professor of Ophthalmology Emeritus, Emory University.
  • Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology, the Moran Eye Institute, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Former Co-Director of the Collaborative Corneal Transplantation Studies, a large, NIH-supported multi-center study of histocompatibility and corneal transplantation.
  • Former investigator in a physician-sponsored clinical investigation of LASIK that was
    carried out before the first refractive laser was approved by the FDA in the United States.
  • Previously had a referral practice in cornea/external disease and performed routine and complex cataract surgery, as well as corneal transplantation.
  • Specialized in the management of keratoconus.
  • Principal Investigator for 5 different clinical trials for corneal cross-linking since 2008.
  • Member of the FDA Ophthalmic Devices Panel for 10 years , and he completed a term as Chair of the Panel in 1998.
  • Past President of the American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

ROGER JEWETT CA, CPA
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

  • Hands-on executive with 25+ years of experience leading public and private companies through corporate restructurings, financings and growth.
  • Completed debt and equity financings for multiple companies of up to $70M.
  • Negotiated and closed the purchase or sale of over 40 businesses.
  • Cofounder and Director of Quantum Blockchain Technologies Ltd. (CPC that merged with Ocumetics).
  • Founder and CEO of Jump On Flyaways, an airplane sharing service. Led development of proprietary software, appeared on Dragon’s Den.
  • Former CFO of Enerjet, a charter airline. Led Enerjet from significant losses to multiple years of profitability.
  • Former CEO of Rare Method (RM), a TSX-V listed interactive marketing firm. Led RM from start-up to the 2nd fastest growing company in Alberta (2007) and top 100 fastest growing company in Canada (2008).
  • Former CFO of Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (RCR), a national ski resort operator. Led RCR from financial difficulty to one of the best managed companies in Canada (National Post – 1997 and 1998).
  • Former contract or interim CFO for companies in multiple industries (psychedelics, medical devices, helicopter charters, software development, e-commerce, product development, publishing).

Board of Directors

Bart McRoberts

Dr. James Barton McRoberts, O.D.
DIRECTOR

  • Received Doctorate in Optometry from the University of Waterloo in 1974.
  • Optometrist in private practice, West Vancouver and Squamish, British Columbia.
  • Past president, British Columbia Association of Optometrists.
  • Past Chair and member, BC Board of Examiners in Optometry, British Columbia.
  • Past Registrar, BC College of Optometrists.
  • Past Professional Services Director, The Laser Center, Vancouver.
  • Past Board member and VP, Optometric Services Ltd., Montreal.
  • Member Pharmaceutical Committee, BC College of Optometrists.
  • Past Chair of Senate, ISYS Medical.
  • Member, British Columbia Association of Optometrists.
  • Published several articles related to practical optometry, as well as a brief on optometrists’ scope of practice for the Health Professions Council of B.C.
  • Lectured at professional events as well as in community settings to members of the public.

DAYTON MARKS
DIRECTOR

  • Director, Bonanza Mining Corporation
  • Sessional Instructional Assistant with the Rotman School of Management
  • Consultant, Hans Management, a private company that formed and funded Hanstone Capital Corp., which later became Hanstone Gold Corporation, a gold and mineral exploration company in the Golden Triangle in British Columbia.
  • Master’s degree, Financial Risk Management, Rotman School of Management.

ROBERT QUINN
DIRECTOR

  • Independent businessman with years of diverse board, management, and legal international mining industry experience.
  • Extensive corporate governance, environmental, transactional, M&A, financing, contract, development, compliance and litigation experience with companies developing and operating numerous mines and conducting exploration programs internationally.
  • Juris Doctor degree from the University of Denver School of Law
  • Bachelor’s degree of Business Administration from the University of Denver
Dean Burns

DEAN E. BURNS
PRESIDENT / CEO / DIRECTOR

DR. GARTH WEBB
FOUNDER / CSO / DIRECTOR

Roger Jewett

ROGER JEWETT CA, CPA
CFO / DIRECTOR

DR. DOYLE STULTING
CMO / DIRECTOR

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