Our Mission is Surgical Safety For All, Anywhere.
We aim to improve patient outcomes and quality of care for surgical procedures, inclusively, across standard and underserved settings… starting with bedside cranial access.
The Hubly Drill + Cranial Access Kit is designed to reduce complications and operating room dependence through our unique features for safety, efficiency, and value.
OUR LEADERSHIP
Our team consists of a neurosurgeon with an MBA, two life-long medical device engineers with over 55 patents, an expert regulatory and quality leader, a neuroscientist turned software engineer, and a serial medtech commercial leader with a combined 100 years experience building early stage startups. We met across disciplines and schools at Northwestern.
Since volunteering at the Georgetown Stroke Clinic twelve years ago, Casey has lived and breathed all things neuro. She researched Parkinson’s disease for five years in neuroscience labs, built neuro-implantable devices in a bioengineering lab, and analyzed neurosurgical data with Northwestern physicians. To gain further experience in data processing, Casey continued on to work as a software engineer within JP Morgan’s Big Data Department. She co-founded Hubly Surgical in 2019 as a response to her long family history of neurological disease.
Casey Qadir
CEO
Dr. Ayer is a neurosurgery attending with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his undergraduate degree in immunology from Queen’s University and his medical degree from Wake Forest School of Medicine in 2013. He has wide-ranging bench and clinical research experience in the neurosciences and immunology and expertise in medical device innovation, noninvasive sensors, and electroceuticals. He also co-founded early stage neurological sensor company Rhaeos, a flow monitoring device for the management of hydrocephalus patients.
Dr. Amit Ayer, MD, MBA
CLINICAL LEAD
Holcomb has over 20 years of experience leading medical device sales and marketing commercialization at 4 medical device startups from early stages through to 4 successful exits. At his former companies, he has developed commercial strategies, marketing strategies, annual business plans, and paved the way for a new CPT-1 code. He has recruited, hired, trained, and coached sales reps and territory managers as well as designed territory sales training and credentialing programs. Further, Holcomb previously developed an innovative digital DTC campaign, connecting interested patients to trained physicians.
Ty Holcomb
COMMERCIAL LEAD
Julie Byars has spent nearly 15 years leading quality and regulatory teams at Medtronic Spine & Biologics, St. Jude, and heart implant startup Endotronix. She is an expert in quality management systems compliant with ISO13485 and FDA QSR. She is a certified auditor and quality engineer, adept at continuous quality improvement and tailoring quality systems to meet regulatory goals. Byars holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA in Administration and Finance from Christian Brothers University.
Julie Byars, MBA
QUALITY LEAD
| Tyler earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from BYU and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from USC. He has 15 years of experience in medical device product development, spanning class I, II, and III products across different applications including neonatal, oncology, and cardiology, and holds over 20 patents. Tyler has demonstrated success in the early stage medical device startup space of growing teams and driving product development. |
Tyler Panian, MS
Technical Lead
Mark Fisher is currently the Principal at Mission Product Development LLC. Previously, Fisher was the Director of Engineering at Northwestern’s Center for innovation in Global Health Technologies. He has more than 30+ years of product and service development experience, deep experience in industry, start ups and consulting, broad experience across health care, consumer, industrial and aerospace products, proven leadership experience from leading large teams, managing groups of product developers to creating new business, and also has over 35 patents issued and/or pending.