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Our Mission
Know Labs is committed to making a difference in the lives of millions of people around the world by developing convenient, affordable, non-invasive medical diagnostics solutions,
starting with blood glucose monitoring.
Management Team
A century of collective experience in the fields of sensor technology, opto-electronics, bio-pharma/endocrinology, and commercial development.
Ron Erickson
Chairman & CEO
Founder of Know Labs, Ron has 30 years of board, business development, financial, and executive leadership experience from industries including therapeutics, mobile technologies, and software. Previously, Chairman and CEO of eCharge Corporation, Chairman and Co-founder of Blue Frog Mobile, Chairman and CEO of GlobalTel Resources, and Chairman and CEO of Egghead Software.
Dr. James Anderson
Chief Medical Officer
Former Chief Medical Leader, Diabetes and Endocrinology at Eli Lilly, Chief of Medicine at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Director at Generex, and Medical Director at Catapult Health.
Pete Conley
Chief Financial Officer and SVP IP
Pete has over 34 years of corporate finance and equity capital markets experience, and over 20 years of specialization in strategic IP analysis, development, and monetization. He most recently served as Senior MD and Head of IP Banking at Boustead Securities. Pete has also held leadership roles at ipCreate, ipCapital Venture Group, MDB Capital Group, The Analytiq Group / RDEX Research, Roth Capital Partners, and Lehman Brothers. He was on the founding team and Head of Equity Capital Markets at E*Offering, the investment bank of E*Trade.
Dominic Klyve
Chief Science Officer
Dominic is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications in several fields of science and mathematics and has served as Principal Investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation (among others) worth over $1.5 million. He is a winner of the Henry A. Alder Award and the Lester Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America. He holds a professorship at Central Washington University and is a former Editor of The College Mathematics Journal. Dominic leads R&D efforts at Know Labs and has been involved with the company, either as a consultant or as an employee, since 2019.
John Cronin
Interim Chief Technology Officer
John Cronin joins the day-to-day team as Interim Chief Technology Officer. Previously, Cronin was elected as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors. He has been a strategic advisor and consultant to Know Labs, supporting the Company’s expanding patent portfolio and securing its global leadership as the top patent holder in the non-invasive blood glucose monitoring category. Cronin will oversee the Company’s product development and technology strategy and help the Know Labs team develop test protocols to address research and development questions. In addition, Cronin spearheads the Know Labs “skunkworks” activities which explores new applications for the Company’s platform technology, an example of which is the recently announced automobile steering wheel application of our sensor platform. Cronin is the founder and CEO of ipCapital Group, Inc., a leading global advisory company on intellectual property strategy and monetization. Cronin began his career at IBM where he was the sole inventor of breakthrough chip design technology and later, he became IBM’s top inventor. He went on to create the IBM Patent Factory, growing IBM’s patent portfolio from ninth to first in the world catapulting IBM’s IP licensing from $30 million to over $2 billion a year. Today, Mr. Cronin has approximately 1800 patents and applications worldwide.
Board of Directors
An experienced board providing guidance to the management team as Know Labs brings the BIO-RFID technology to market and makes its way through the FDA clinical process.
Ron Erickson
Chairman
Previously Chairman and CEO of eCharge Corporation, Chairman and Co-founder of Blue Frog Mobile, Chairman and CEO of GlobalTel Resources, and Chairman and CEO of Egghead Software.
John Cronin
Director
Founder and CEO of ipCapital Group, Inc., a leading global advisory company on intellectual property strategy and monetization.
Larry Ellingson
Director
Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Diabetes Leadership Council, former Chairman of the Board of the American Diabetes Association, and spent 30 years with Eli Lilly where he headed the Diabetes Care business unit.
William Owens
Director
Executive Chairman at Red Bison Advisory Group, former Chairman of Century Link Telecom, and former Vice Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Jon Pepper
Director
Previously Partner and Owner at Pepcom, Inc., the leader in technology showcase events. Previously founded Digital Focus newsletter, former technology journalist and columnist whose work appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, PC Magazine, and other publications.
Ichiro Takesako
Director
President of M2M Technologies, Inc. and At Signal, Inc. and General Manager of Business Development at Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd.
“There are no rules here - we're
trying to accomplish something.”
- Thomas Edison
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