ASKlepius Advisors is a collaborative that brings together key experts with domain expertise to support our clients.
Key members of the collaborative include:
Eric Gombrich – Principal 
Domain: Commercialization, Marketing, Sales, Business Development, General Management
Eric has been successfully introducing transformational solutions into healthcare & wellness around the world for over 30 years. As an entrepreneurial leader with a focus on identifying high-value problems and bringing solutions for them to market, he has deep knowledge in the business model paradigms of both privatized & socialized healthcare systems.
With experience growing solutions and businesses from gestation to operational profitability, Eric’s experience extends from implementation, to sales, to sales & marketing leader, to CEO. He has led both teams and products through regulatory processes (US-FDA, Health Canada, NHS, ISO), as well as built & managed both sales/marketing and implementation teams while growing business to operational and exit success. Eric is both a U.S. and Canadian citizen.
Gary Folker – Advisor
Domain: Healthcare Technology commercialization expertise in North America, Australia / New Zealand, and Europe. EMR/EHR IT/IM issues of conceptualization, evaluation, implementation, business continuity, education, technical challenges, security, privacy including Canadian health privacy legislation, data governance.
Gary Folker has more than 30 years of experience pioneering healthcare technology in Canada, the United States, and various overseas markets, and is ideally positioned to guide commercialization for growth-stage health-tech companies. Gary has held various senior-management and executive positions, including Chief Operating Officer of a major Canadian health-informatics firm. He has directed development of technology solutions and expanded services that resulted in the introduction into Canada of many leading medical technologies. Gary is a CPHIMS-CA certified professional and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Acadia University.
Dr. Norman Yee – Chief Medical Advisor
Domain: Clinical expertise, Family practice; med student teaching; EMR/EHR IT/IM issues of conceptualization, evaluation, implementation, business continuity, education, technical challenges, security, privacy including Canadian health privacy legislation, data governance.
Norm has been a leader in Group private family practice and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary medical school; electronic medical record (EMR) consultant to the Calgary Health Region/Alberta Medical Association/College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta/Canada Health Infoway; Family Health Clinic EMR/Calgary Foothills Primary Care Network IT lead; peer auditor for College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta; practice management presenter for Practice Solutions/CMA.
Doug Frankiw – Chief Financial Advisor
Domain: CFO, financing, corporate structure, M&A, Board Governance