Araceli Guenther

Chief Executive Officer

Araceli Guenther has over 20 years executive management experience and a proven ability to oversee and direct high visibility and complex management consulting projects. In addition to being an Executive Principal for Victrix Global, a consulting firm, Araceli is also a Partner with Pivot88, a software company focusing on the use of emergent technologies to provide visibility into the most vulnerable and riskiest parts of the Supply Chain – quality control within suppliers. Ms. Guenther is one of the founders of TechTango, a company dedicated to commercialization of medical devices and platform technologies in the animal and human sectors.

Over the past few years, Ms. Guenther has directed numerous projects for companies in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. She has worked across various industries and extensively in the pharmaceutical industry. Ms. Guenther served as the project director for clinical operations and outsourcing clinical trials. She was responsible for all regulatory, adherence, medical affairs/safety, study documentation and finance accountability. In addition to her business career, Ms. Guenther has been involved with Temple University for the past seven years as a member of the Advisory Board for the Fox School of Business and Fox Management Consulting, also serving as Project Executive for the MBA program. Araceli is also involved with International Business and Management Consulting. She teaches Fundamentals of Latin American Business, at the undergraduate level, as well as an MBA course in Management Consulting Principles and Practices.

Education: Graduate degree from Southern Methodist University Graduate School of Banking and Finance. She is fluent in Spanish and conversational in German.

Community Service: Ms. Guenther has held various leadership positions: Chairman of the Board of the SA Food Bank, Senior Community Services, Girls & Boys Town, and Small/Minority owned Business Advisory Board and the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on the Economy.

Awards: Outstanding Young Woman of America, San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Woman of the Year.

Laura Spain

Chief Operations Officer & Legal Counsel

Laura Spain is an entrepreneur and legal consultant with over 10 years of experience practicing law. Laura joined Fox Rothschild LLP as an associate in both the corporate and tax departments practicing in a wide range of areas involving general corporate law, real estate, tax, estate planning and financing matters for closely held businesses, nonprofit corporations and governmental entities. She has extensive experience preparing, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts. Laura later joined Exelon Corporation, a Fortune 150 company, as a corporate tax attorney handling mergers and acquisitions, tax research and planning, compliance and regulatory matters as well as all tax matters for the Exelon Foundation. Laura is one of the founders of TechTango, LLC, a consulting company assisting companies through the process of bringing medical devices and new platform technologies to market in both the animal and human sectors.

Education: Laura earned a BA from Colgate University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, a JD, MBA and an LLM in Tax Law from Temple University.

Community: Laura currently serves on the board of the Tax Section of Philadelphia Bar Association as well as Women of Vision and Women’s Philanthropy divisions of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

Stacie Lipinski, DVM

Chief Strategy Officer & Medical Director

Stacie Lipinski has 14 years of progressive experience as a practicing veterinarian, a doctor-referral hospital liaison, internship director, ER/ICU manager, and medical device purchasing agent.

While she has always enjoyed clinical practice and helping people through caring for their pets, she found herself looking for an avenue that would allow her to make a bigger impact on the world.  Specifically, she wanted to meet the unmet needs of doctors and patients by bringing safe and effective innovative medical devices to market.  For this reason, Dr. Lipinski pursued and earned her MBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurship.

In 2014, she gained experience with an early-stage medical device company as the Clinical Business Development Team Lead.  She led the group in authoring clinical trials to be performed in the US and EU for a class II medical device and co-wrote the Clinical Business Development Plan.  This plan was subsequently utilized in a funding round seeking $10M.

Subsequently, she co-founded a start-up medical device company and served as the Chief Medical Officer & Chief Strategy Officer. With this company, she collaborated with the Senior Engineer, providing clinically relevant input on design of the second generation technology prototype.  In addition, she created a Feasibility Plan, Strategic Commercialization Plan and co-created the roadshow Pitch Deck for the company's technology before joining Ms. Guenther and Ms. Spain to co-found TechTango in 2016.

Staying true to her passion and maintaining the clinical relevance necessary for innovation in medical technology development, Dr. Lipinski continues to practice veterinary medicine.  

Licensure and Professional Organizations:  Dr. Lipinski holds a current license to practice veterinary medicine.  She is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (VECCS).  From 2004 - 2010, she was a USDA Accredited Veterinarian, Florida.

Education:  Dr. Lipinski earned a BS in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh, a DVM from Auburn University, and an MBA from Temple University.  In addition, she has specialized internship and residency training in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine and Surgery.

Community:  Stacie has enjoyed a variety of community service volunteer activities including, visiting the sick as a eucharastic minister on behalf of Old St Mary’s Catholic Church, participating in Career Day for middle school students, and aiding in fund raising activities for the Jacksonville Cancer Society.  While pursuing her MBA, she served as the TU Health Leadership Organization VP, focusing on building and maintaining Alumni and Industry Relations.