Leadership

President and CEO

Raul Brizuela has over 27 years of experience in the medical device industry and is the Founder, President, and CEO of Cura Surgical, a medical device company with a focus in infection prevention and woundcare. In 2012 Raul led the effort in the acquisition of Argentum Medical. Raul is President, CEO and Board Member of Argentum Medical where he works to provide oversight and guidance to all commercial areas. In 2016 Raul oversaw the partnering with Shore Capital Partners. The partnership brought forth significant support to Argentum's strategic growth initiative by leveraging Shore's extensive expertise in the healthcare industry.

Raul also serves as Co-principal investigator on multiple BARDA studies. The BARDA studies are evaluating the use of Argentum's Silverlon technologies as a medical countermeasure in mass casualty applications. The studies focus specifically on radiologically induced injuries and exposure to vapor sulfur mustard.

Raul studied International Business at Bradley University. Outside of the office Raul is a proud father and husband. He is an active board member of Legatus of Saint Charles. Raul volunteered as the president of the education commission for Saint Patrick Catholic School and served on the steering committee with the goal of raising 20 million dollars for the capital campaign of Saint Patrick Parish.

Chief Financial Officer

​​Rob is a finance executive with significant experience in the healthcare industry. In his current role, he is a key member of the executive leadership team for Argentum Medical. He is responsible for the full financial operations of the business including financial reporting, quarterly forecasting, annual planning and long term strategic planning. Rob partners with the rest of the leadership team to drive financial improvement and strategic growth.

Rob previously served as the CFO for Santa Cruz Nutritionals. Prior to this position, he was the VP Finance for the Medical Device business at Pfizer.

Rob also worked for Cardinal Health, Allegiance Healthcare, Baxter Healthcare and Arthur Andersen & Co.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Science, Accounting from Northern Illinois University and is a non-licensed CPA.

Chief Commercial Officer

Chris is an executive leader with over 20 years of successful medical device experience leading high performance teams, launching new medical devices, and creating new markets. He has earned a reputation in startup organizations and billion dollar companies of identifying, recruiting, and developing high performing teams. Currently Chris is the Chief Commercial Officer for Cura Surgical, An Argentum Medical Company, with responsibility for US Sales and Marketing.

Prior to joining Cura Surgical, Chris held various leadership roles with BD (acquired CareFusion) including Region Manager, Director of Corporate Accounts, and Strategic Account Director. In these roles, Chris worked with all of the different platforms including, but not limited to: Infection Prevention, Vascular, Respiratory, Interventional Specialties and Surgical Instruments. Prior to BD/CareFusion, Chris held various leadership roles with CR Bard in the Bard Medical Division (Acquired Venetec in 2006). These roles included Strategic Account Manager and Region Manager positions in the Northeast focused on continued expansion of StatLock catheter securement. Chris was one of the original sales representatives for Venetec International, San Diego based startup, here he played a key role in this successful market launch, and pioneered the launch into the peripheral vascular market.

Chris has a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Moravian University and is currently on the Fair Haven School District Board of Education.

Vice President of Operations

Enrique Aviles has over 30 years of solid manufacturing experience. Before joining Argentum Medical, he worked at BD for 20 years.

During his tenure at BD, Enrique performed various leadership roles as Plant Manager, Senior Director Operations and VP of Manufacturing. In his roles, he successfully lead major projects such as: Infection Prevention Bard/BD Integration, BD production system, Regulatory Compliance Remediation, Plant startups, New product introductions, Lean transformations, SAP implementations, Product architecture, Customer Centric and many others.

In 2019 Enrique directed the largest infection prevention (Chloraprep) operation located in El Paso, Tx. $500K in COGS and achieved the Large plant of the year award best operation competing against 100 other plants around the world.

Enrique studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus and started his engineering career by joining GE’s (MMP) manufacturing management program, including foreign countries assignments.

Enrique is a proud father of four and married for 35 years, also enjoys his boat, deep sea fishing, cooking and wine.

Vice President of Regulatory and Quality Affairs

Jim has over 40 years of experience in quality assurance and regulatory affairs in the commercial, aerospace, military, and medical device fields, with over 32 years’ experience in a leadership position.

Born and raised in Orlando, Florida, he has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Central Florida and a Master’s in Business Administration from Florida International University.

Jim’s professional career includes 14 years in quality and regulatory experience with military and aerospace contractors and 26 years of quality and regulatory experience with medical device manufacturers.

Jim currently lives in Whitmore Lake Michigan with his wife of 30 years, Dena. They have a son James. Among his hobbies are genealogy and scuba diving.