Flagg Flanagan is Chief Executive Office and Chairman of the Board at DiscGenics. Mr. Flanagan has over 30 years of experience in the medical device and biopharmaceutical fields as an entrepreneur, executive and advisor. He founded Flanagan Instruments in 1981, which he built into a leading neurosurgical device distribution business before selling it to Itochu International in 2005. He is currently on the boards of Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation, TrueDigital Systems, Peleton Medical, and Steribite. He has also served on the boards of the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine, as well as TrueVision Systems, Image Stream Medical, and Triad Life Sciences, which were acquired by Alcon, Olympus, and Convatec, respectively. He completed the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School.