Keith L Doty, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Doty received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at MIT and his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor Doty, an expert in mechanical design, founded the Machine Intelligence Laboratory and directed graduate students in high tech research at the University of Florida. During that time he experimented with all types of robotics including skeletal robots. He has consulted for fortune 500 companies and helped with their success.
Following his retirement from UF as Professor Emeritus, Professor Doty served as an independent consultant in the development of a marketable cervical disc prosthesis. Soon After he began designing his own disc prostheses in 2004, resulting in the issuance of a patent portfolio and the development of the NFS-C™ disc.
Richard D. Guyer, M.D., Orthopedist, Chief Medical Officer:
Dr. Richard Guyer is Co-founder of the Texas Back Institute and Director of their Spine Fellowship Program. Dr. Guyer is Co-director of the Center for Disc Replacement at Texas Back Institute and was instrumental in bringing artificial disc replacement surgery to the United States after its creation and use in Europe. He is founder of the Texas Back Institute Research Foundation (TBIRF) and Chairman of the Board for the program. Also, Dr. Guyer is Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopedics at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas.
Dr. Guyer received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He completed his internship at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas followed by an orthopedic surgical residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Guyer completed two spine fellowships; the first at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH under Henry Bohlman, MD, and a second in Long Beach, CA with Leon Wiltse, MD.
Dr. Guyer is a member of many medical and spine societies serving in leadership roles and on many committees. These include the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Cervical Spine Research Society, Institute for Spine & Biomedical Research, International Society for the Study of Lumbar Spine, Lumbar Spine Research Society, and North American Spine Society.
Dr. Guyer has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles with current articles in press. He has made nearly 600 presentations and over 250 posters. He is a reviewer for multiple journals including the International Journal of Spine Surgery, the European Spine Journal and the Global Spine Journal.
Kahil Doty, BSBA, Treasurer, Vice President
Kahil graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S.B.A, Cum Laude. He majored in business management with minors in marketing and finance. He was hired right out of school by The May Company on a management fast track and was the highest paid recruit to that date. After a year, he realized that retail was not for him and shifted back to his real love: entrepreneurship.
Kahil started his first company in high school, programming and selling computers to individuals, businesses and universities. He made enough money by high school graduation to buy his first house and put himself through college, debt-free. The challenges of starting, running, and then eventually selling a business is his sweet spot. Throughout the years, Kahil has started, managed, and/or sold several companies including businesses in computers, publishing, marketing, robotics, and film production. Kahil specializes in bridging the gap between technical people and sales people and defines pathways that successfully bring products to market.
Family note: Dr Keith Doty and Kahil Doty have a successful 27 year history of working together including starting and running three businesses and look forward to success on their forth endeavor.