Richard P. Meyst - BSME, MSME
President & CEO

Mr. Meyst is an accomplished mechanical engineer and developer of a wide range of products for the health care and consumer products industries. He has over 30 years experience in roles ranging from R&D researcher to program manager. He is an expert in project management, product conception, design and development, product prototyping, design and process validation, production startup, cost reduction and manufacturing engineering.

In his career he has been associated with many of the premier medical device manufacturers. He has been heavily involved with high volume sterile disposables utilizing a wide range of polymers. Products he designed have utilized manufacturing technologies such as injection molding, transfer molding, extrusion, solvent bonding, sonic welding, adhesive bonding, and many others. Product lines have included catheters of many types, blood filters, IV & blood sets, bio-reactors and solution containers, implantables, therapeutic and diagnostic devices, hospital thermometers, fluid by-pass circuits, as well as numerous electromechanical and electronic instruments. He has had diverse program management and line responsibilities. While at one company he headed up the disposable design group, ran the pilot production facility for I.V. sets and infusion pumps and managed the I.V. disposables custom product line. At another medical company he headed up the manufacturing engineering department.

Mr. Meyst is a Senior Member of the Society of Plastics Engineers/Medical Plastics Division (SPE) and has served on the Divisional Board of Directors. He is an Expert in the TELTECH Network and the Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys (TASA), is a member of Scripps Clinic Research Foundation, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) and the American Filtration Society. He was confirmed as an honored member in Who's Who Worldwide Registry of Global Business Leaders. Mr. Meyst earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published technical papers, presented at industry meetings, holds twelve US Patents, and has been consulting to industry for over fifteen years. Mr. Meyst is President of Fallbrook Engineering, Inc.

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