Driven By Passion. Operating In Purpose.

“There is no cure.” Those are four words no father is prepared to hear.

My daughters had been diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic eye disease that can progressively take away their sight. And I was being told there was nothing I could do to stop it.

But there was another part of me listening that day, too. The scientist.

As a Jamaican immigrant, at age 18, I joined the U.S. Army and trained as a combat medic, where I learned early that when someone’s life is at stake, you don’t have the luxury of looking away from the problem.

That commitment to solving problems followed me beyond the military. I earned my degree in biochemistry from Howard University and built a career spanning clinical research, the FDA, veterans’ health, biodefense and genomics.