Management Team
David L. Hankin was named President of the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering in April 2009. He concurrently holds the position of CEO of the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research (AMF) since 2007 after having served the AMF as General Counsel since January 2004 and Chief Financial Officer since June 2005. In 1983 David received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, CA. In 1986 he received a Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University in the School of Law Nashville, Tennessee. From 1997 to 2000 David served as a member of the Board of Advisors for EC2, University of Southern California New Media Incubator group. From 1996 to 1999 he was Vice President of Business Affairs for Sony Online Entertainment. From 1999 to 2000 he was CEO for Hyundai Internet Technologies.
As David Hankin leads these Alfred Mann Foundation teams to the next horizon, the innovations continue as they look forward to developing solutions to healthcare problems, and new patients to help.
Carla Mann Woods, Vice President of Strategic Planning and Program Development, is a member of the AMI-USC and the AMI-Purdue Board of Directors and has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Center for Global Innovation at the USC Marshall School of Business. She is also a member of the Board of Governors for The Fulfillment Fund, and formerly on the Board of the National Pain Foundation. A USC graduate in Business Administration and Entrepreneurship, Carla began her career at Pacesetter Systems in Business Development and Marketing to research and plan new technology applications and product needs for pacemakers. Later, she joined Advanced Bionics, a cochlear implant company acquired by Boston Scientific. During her tenure at Advanced Bionics/Boston Scientific, she was involved in the business development, product development, and marketing for the BION® microstimulator and the Precision Spinal Cord Stimulator and was the Vice President of Marketing for the Auditory Division. For these products she holds over 40 U.S. patents. In 2007, she became the Vice President of Program Development and Strategic Planning for the Alfred Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering to establish the model for creating and operating Alfred Mann Institutes (AMI) at universities.
Les Halberg, Vice President of Development, has been involved in technology development and commercialization of medical devices for over 25 years and joined the Foundation in his current role in May 2008. He was born in the Washington Heights section of New York City and is a graduate of Columbia University's School of Engineering where in 1977 he received his BS in Chemical/Biomedical Engineering. He then attended the University of Cincinnati's School of Engineering where in 1979 he graduated with his MS in Electrical Engineering. Les began his professional career developing ultrasound imaging technology at the General Electric Corporate R&D center in Schenectady N.Y. He then moved on to the Hewlett Packard Medical Products Group Ultrasound development center in Andover, Mass. where as a Project Engineer he contributed to 3 generations of technology development improving the capability of imaging in diagnostic cardiology. Les holds 3 U.S. patents in the field of ultrasound imaging. More recently Les played a major role as Director of R&D in building the Advanced Bionics Neuromodulation division, and it's Precision Neurostimulator technology platform, which changed the paradigm of care for chronic pain patients. Les' role is to carry through the vision of Al Mann and the Foundation by translating great healthcare concepts initiated in University environments to viable products. He works with individual Al Mann Institute teams supporting the entire lifecycle of selected projects; ensuring diligence from concept selection, through planning, development, test, launch into a small scale clinical study, and licensing to a commercial enterprise. In his spare time he collects vintage baseball cards and is a tournament level handball player.
Kristen Delgado joined the Alfred E Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering in 2008, as a Market Analyst. Kristen graduated from Pepperdine University with her Bachelor of the Arts degree in International Communications in 1992. In May 2009 Kristen completed the Medical Marketing Program at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management. During her years of study, she benefited twice from study abroad programs to Germany, 1985-86, and 1988-89. Her professional interests lie in market research and analysis, communications, and new product investigation and opportunities. Kristen founded, built and managed a computer study program in a primary education facility and then ran a very successful business in residential real estate for nearly 10 years. Her personal hobbies include all outdoor activities and sports that she can share with her husband and two children