Proprio advances surgery through a proprietary platform that synthesizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, and augmented reality.
Our goal is to significantly improve patient outcomes and surgeon wellbeing through the collaboration of physician expertise and immersive, intelligent technology.
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Our executive team has extensive experience in technology, neurosurgery, computer vision, and orthopedics. With dozens of FDA-approved products successfully brought to market, our leaders come from small, mid, and large technology and medical device companies, both private and public.
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Gabriel Jones is the CEO of Proprio, which he co-founded in 2016 with Seattle Children's Hospital neurosurgeon Dr. Samuel Browd, University of Washington Professor Joshua Smith, and computer vision specialist James Youngquist. The team set out to create a system that makes surgeons more precise and exponentially increases surgical accuracy and efficiency.
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Jones is a well-known and experienced technology leader with a passion for helping others and bringing innovation to life. Jones has more than a decade of leadership experience in emerging technology and intellectual property law, with specific expertise in AI and healthcare. He began his career in international trade in Japan and Washington, DC, and worked in large-scale mergers and acquisitions on Wall Street. Prior to founding Proprio, Jones helped clients like Bill Gates and the leadership of Microsoft evaluate and develop emerging technologies while working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on global initiatives in health and technology. Seeking to create a more direct, positive societal impact, his work led him to technology ventures. He has assisted several successful startups on their commercialization path, from biotech and med tech, to AI and prop tech. Gabe has held seats on several boards including the Washington Biotech and Biomedical Association and the Group Health Foundation through its acquisition by Kaiser.
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Dr. Samuel R. Browd, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, FAANS, FAAP is Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington and Attending Neurosurgeon at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Browd is the Director of The Sports Institute at UW Medicine and Medical Director of the Seattle Children’s Sports Concussion Program.
Dr. Browd also serves as Seattle Children’s Director of Hydrocephalus, Surgical Director of the Tone Management Program and lead surgeon for the pediatric neurosurgical complex spine practice at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Browd is adjunct Professor of Bioengineering and affiliate faculty of the Foster School of Business. Dr. Browd has published over 125 peer reviewed medical publications and book chapters. Dr. Browd serves as an Unaffiliated Neurologic Consultant to the NFL and as an independent neurologic consultant to the Seattle Seahawks. Dr. Browd completed a combined M.D. and Ph.D at the University of Florida studying neuroplasticity and learning and his current research interests include robotics and computational healthcare. Dr. Browd has co-founded five venture backed biomedical start-up where he served as chief medical officer including Proprio, VICIS, Aqueduct Neuroscience, Navisonics, and AllCylinders. Dr. Browd also serves as a business and medical advisor to numerous early-stage biotech companies and serves as an advisor/technical filter for numerous venture capital firms. Dr. Browd serves as a UW Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow and teaches at the UW Foster School of Business, he also lectures internationally on biomedical innovation and commercialization. Dr. Browd was recognized as the University of Washington School of Medicine Inventor of the Year in 2016 and co-developed two products that were listed as Time Magazine’s Invention of the Year in 2017 and 2019. Dr. Browd was honored to be the 2021 CNS Innovator of the Year.
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Shannon brings 25 years of medical device experience in both early stage companies and large corporations. In her 27 year career she has been responsible for new product development, product manufacturing, and quality systems and has led teams along the full spectrum of the development lifecycle in a wide variety of clinical applications.
Prior to joining Proprio she served as VP, Device Development for L'Oreal, VP of Engineering and Operations for an early stage start-up, Aortica Corporation and over a decade at Pathway Medical last acting as Director of Engineering. In her role at Pathway Medical she was a key part of the leadership team successfully transitioning the technology to Bayer Healthcare. Shannon holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University.
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With over 25 years of experience in the regulated software industry, Neeraj most recently was the VP of Software Engineering at Vicarious Surgical, a Boston-based surgical robotics start-up where he was instrumental in developing the software architecture.
Prior to Vicarious Surgical, Neeraj led a global informatics and software engineering team at BD’s Integrated Diagnostic Solutions with multiple successful releases of their global informatics platform for micro and molecular biology laboratory automation. A computational physicist by training, Neeraj is passionate about medical technology software and strongly believes in the application of advanced digital technologies in the OR to support the enhancement of surgeon performance and improved patient outcomes.
Ray brings more than 25 years of results-oriented strategic business leadership to the Proprio team. Throughout his career, Ray has led finance and accounting, budgeting and planning, human resources, facilities, customer service, and logistics.
Focused on progressive responsibility with broad experience, Ray’s background includes IPO, venture capital and debt financings, strategic investments, acquisitions, divestitures and asset sales, and investor relations and capital markets strategy. He also managed financial processes and controls development, budget, modeling, and strategic planning processes, human resources and cultural leadership, and risk management and corporate legal. Ray was the CFO at Northstar Neuroscience, an early-stage medical device company that raised several rounds of venture and strategic financing and went through a successful IPO. Most recently, he served as the Chief Financial Officer at Atlas Coffee Importers, and has also served in leadership roles at LeMond Fitness, Altrec.com, and Ernst & Young. Ray holds a B.A. in Business Administration, Accounting Concentration from the University of Washington.
Having previous experience in joint replacement medical devices, Tommy Carls most recently served as the Vice President of Research and Development at market-leading Medtronic Spine & Biologics where he was responsible for all engineering activities for the approximately $2.8B annual revenue medical technology group.
His career at Medtronic included leadership positions in marketing for spinal navigation technologies as well as the thoracolumbar implants. He has launched 40+ products from both the marketing and engineering functions in the medical device industry and was a corporate leader/co-sponsor for Medtronic’s Women in Science and Engineering (WISE). Carls received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Tulane University and his MBA from the University of Memphis.Carls was formerly an independent medical device consultant, and served on Proprio’s Clinical Advisory Board before joining Proprio full-time as their Vice President of Product Management & Marketing in January 2022. He holds more than 80 patents, has led global teams of more than 150 engineers, and is held in high regard by the top clinical and industry leaders in the global spine market.
Jim Youngquist has developed solutions in computer vision and robotics throughout his career. His work focuses on digitizing biological systems for machine understanding and enhancing human capabilities, particularly in high-tech solutions for safety-critical endeavors helping prevent loss of life.
As a PhD student at the University of Washington Sensor Systems Lab, Jim collaborated with computer scientists and electrical engineers on projects ranging from augmented reality to robotics to low power embedded computation. That work led him to build the early technology pipeline for Proprio. Since 2016 he has led the development of Proprio’s light field capture and render system from inception to deployable systems. He previously was the lead software architect at robotics startup Wibotic (co-founded by Dr. Josh Smith), for which he won the UW CSE Outstanding Engineer Award in 2015. Jim also has experience with advanced systems at Google and Intel. Jim was an Arabic translator in the Air Force in direct support of U.S. troops, and also speaks German.
Jones is a well-known and experienced technology leader with a passion for helping others and bringing innovation to life. Jones has more than a decade of leadership experience in emerging technology and intellectual property law, with specific expertise in AI and healthcare. He began his career in international trade in Japan and Washington, DC, and worked in large-scale mergers and acquisitions on Wall Street. Prior to founding Proprio, Jones helped clients like Bill Gates and the leadership of Microsoft evaluate and develop emerging technologies while working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on global initiatives in health and technology. Seeking to create a more direct, positive societal impact, his work led him to technology ventures. He has assisted several successful startups on their commercialization path, from biotech and med tech, to AI and prop tech. Gabe has held seats on several boards including the Washington Biotech and Biomedical Association and the Group Health Foundation through its acquisition by Kaiser.
Dr. Browd also serves as Seattle Children’s Director of Hydrocephalus, Surgical Director of the Tone Management Program and lead surgeon for the pediatric neurosurgical complex spine practice at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Browd is adjunct Professor of Bioengineering and affiliate faculty of the Foster School of Business. Dr. Browd has published over 125 peer reviewed medical publications and book chapters. Dr. Browd serves as an Unaffiliated Neurologic Consultant to the NFL and as an independent neurologic consultant to the Seattle Seahawks. Dr. Browd completed a combined M.D. and Ph.D at the University of Florida studying neuroplasticity and learning and his current research interests include robotics and computational healthcare. Dr. Browd has co-founded five venture backed biomedical start-up where he served as chief medical officer including Proprio, VICIS, Aqueduct Neuroscience, Navisonics, and AllCylinders. Dr. Browd also serves as a business and medical advisor to numerous early-stage biotech companies and serves as an advisor/technical filter for numerous venture capital firms. Dr. Browd serves as a UW Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow and teaches at the UW Foster School of Business, he also lectures internationally on biomedical innovation and commercialization. Dr. Browd was recognized as the University of Washington School of Medicine Inventor of the Year in 2016 and co-developed two products that were listed as Time Magazine’s Invention of the Year in 2017 and 2019. Dr. Browd was honored to be the 2021 CNS Innovator of the Year.
Prior to joining Proprio she served as VP, Device Development for L'Oreal, VP of Engineering and Operations for an early stage start-up, Aortica Corporation and over a decade at Pathway Medical last acting as Director of Engineering. In her role at Pathway Medical she was a key part of the leadership team successfully transitioning the technology to Bayer Healthcare. Shannon holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University.
Prior to Vicarious Surgical, Neeraj led a global informatics and software engineering team at BD’s Integrated Diagnostic Solutions with multiple successful releases of their global informatics platform for micro and molecular biology laboratory automation. A computational physicist by training, Neeraj is passionate about medical technology software and strongly believes in the application of advanced digital technologies in the OR to support the enhancement of surgeon performance and improved patient outcomes.
Focused on progressive responsibility with broad experience, Ray’s background includes IPO, venture capital and debt financings, strategic investments, acquisitions, divestitures and asset sales, and investor relations and capital markets strategy. He also managed financial processes and controls development, budget, modeling, and strategic planning processes, human resources and cultural leadership, and risk management and corporate legal. Ray was the CFO at Northstar Neuroscience, an early-stage medical device company that raised several rounds of venture and strategic financing and went through a successful IPO. Most recently, he served as the Chief Financial Officer at Atlas Coffee Importers, and has also served in leadership roles at LeMond Fitness, Altrec.com, and Ernst & Young. Ray holds a B.A. in Business Administration, Accounting Concentration from the University of Washington.
His career at Medtronic included leadership positions in marketing for spinal navigation technologies as well as the thoracolumbar implants. He has launched 40+ products from both the marketing and engineering functions in the medical device industry and was a corporate leader/co-sponsor for Medtronic’s Women in Science and Engineering (WISE). Carls received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Tulane University and his MBA from the University of Memphis.Carls was formerly an independent medical device consultant, and served on Proprio’s Clinical Advisory Board before joining Proprio full-time as their Vice President of Product Management & Marketing in January 2022. He holds more than 80 patents, has led global teams of more than 150 engineers, and is held in high regard by the top clinical and industry leaders in the global spine market.
As a PhD student at the University of Washington Sensor Systems Lab, Jim collaborated with computer scientists and electrical engineers on projects ranging from augmented reality to robotics to low power embedded computation. That work led him to build the early technology pipeline for Proprio. Since 2016 he has led the development of Proprio’s light field capture and render system from inception to deployable systems. He previously was the lead software architect at robotics startup Wibotic (co-founded by Dr. Josh Smith), for which he won the UW CSE Outstanding Engineer Award in 2015. Jim also has experience with advanced systems at Google and Intel. Jim was an Arabic translator in the Air Force in direct support of U.S. troops, and also speaks German.
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The Proprio Team is growing and needs creative thinkers and innovative problem solvers ready to make an impact!
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