Dr. Friedman joined AxoGen in September 2006. He has served as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance for AxoGen, Inc. since November 2011 and AxoGen Corporation since June 2011. Prior to his current role, he served as Director of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs from September 2006 to June 2011 for AxoGen Corporation. Prior to joining AxoGen, Mark held several regulatory and quality leadership positions at Enable Medical Corporation, a medical device company, including Director of Quality Assurance from 1997 to 1998 and Vice President of Quality and Regulatory from 1998 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2005. Mark also worked for AtriCure, Inc., a company that develops, manufactures and sells surgical ablation systems to treat atrial fibrillation, as Vice President of Quality and Regulatory from 2001 to 2004 and as Vice President of Operations in 2004. AtriCure acquired Enable Medical in 2005. Mark has over 24 years of experience in developing and directing regulatory strategy and quality systems for medical products, including 15 years with startup medical product firms. Mark has a Ph.D. in Chemistry specializing in protein biochemistry from the University of Cincinnati.

Ivica (Ivan) Ducic joined AxoGen as Medical Director in January 2017. Dr. Ducic is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with additional training and expertise in peripheral nerve surgery. He received his medical degree in 1991 from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine (Croatia, Europe), and a Ph.D. degree in 1995 in Neuroscience. Upon completing plastic surgery training at Georgetown University Hospital in 2002, he entered a one-year peripheral nerve surgery fellowship. He then joined the full-time faculty practice at Georgetown University Hospital Department of Plastic Surgery in August 2003, where he served as the Professor of Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery and he is the Founder/Director of their Peripheral Nerve Surgery Institute. Dr. Ducic established his own practice in 2014, the Washington Nerve Institute in McLean, VA, where he continues to practice today. Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Ducic is the past president of American Society for Peripheral Nerve. He has also served on many committees, served as journal editor for peripheral nerve focused research, published over 90 peer-reviewed papers, authored 15 book chapters, and has been a prolific educator both nationally and internationally on the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral nerve injury.