Board of Advisors
MotoMedics International is proud to announce the establishment of the MMI Advisory Board. The composition of the group is as follows:
Peter Doherty, PhD
For over 25 years, Dr. Peter Doherty has been a business consultant advising and guiding major companies in the retail, media and telecommunications industries. His specific areas of expertise include corporate strategy development, consumer research, and retail site location, which he has undertaken for clients operating both in the United States as well as overseas, in such countries as Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey, Venezuela, China and Canada.
Peter’s consulting career has included positions as Senior Manager at Arthur Andersen and at Price Waterhouse. He also served as Vice President of Research at Retail Planning Associates. His hands-on industry experience includes serving as Chief Statistician at iCom, Canada’s leading direct mail company, and as Vice President & COO at Impact Resources, a syndicated consumer research company.
Peter has a Masters in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird), and a Ph.D. in Urban Geography from The University of Georgia. Today, as an adjunct professor at several central Ohio universities, he enjoys sharing his experience and world knowledge with graduate and undergraduate business students.
Janine L. Migden-Ostrander, Esq
Janine Migden-Ostrander is Consumers’ Counsel in the state of Ohio. Sworn into office in April 2004, she oversees the state agency that represents the interests of Ohio’s 4.5 million residential households with their investor-owned electric, natural gas, telephone and water companies.
Prior to being appointed Consumers’ Counsel by the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel’s Governing Board, Janine was a partner in the law firm of Hahn Loeser & Parks and served as Co-Chair of the firm’s Utility and Regulatory Practice Group.
Janine is a past board member of Green Energy Ohio, Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy, the Ohio Environmental Council and the National Low Income Energy Consortium. She currently serves on the National Coal Council, a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, as well as the Executive Committee of the National Association of State Utility Consumers Advocates and on the Board of the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance. She earned a bachelor of arts from the State University of New York, and earned a Certificat de la Langue et Civilisation Francaise from the Universite de la Sorbonne in Paris, France. She holds a Juris Doctorate from Capital University.
Gerardo Solá, MD
Dr. Gerardo Solá is an orthopedic oncology surgeon and Director of The Tissue Bank for Human Transplantation at the British Hospital of Buenos Aires. He is also the founder and President of Fundación Pilotos Solidarios, a volunteer nonprofit organization in Argentina that MotoMedics partners with to help accomplish its mission. Gerardo and his FPS team make monthly trips to remote regions of Santiago del Estero and extremely isolated Indian communities high in the Andean mountains near Salta, providing basic health care and improving the quality of life in these rural areas.
He was personally selected by the late Simon Milward of Motorcycle Outreach to establish a Riders for Health project to help isolated rural inhabitants of Latin America. Gerardo was trained during November 2004 in “zero breakdown” motorcycle health delivery by Willy Ballawala of Health for All Indonesia, who established the first such project outside Africa on the island of Flores in Indonesia. This training has proved invaluable in the organization’s ability to provide reliable delivery of health services to remote populations.
Claudia Turro, PhD
Dr. Claudia Turro received her BS and PhD degrees from Michigan State University and was Postdoctoral Associate at Columbia University in New York. Born in Argentina, she has been a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The Ohio State University since her arrival in Columbus in 1996. In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, she and her group conduct research on the excited states of transition metal complexes and their potential applications in photodynamic therapy, medical imaging, sensing, and solar energy conversion.
One of Claudia’s goals as a faculty member is to increase the number of women and minority students who pursue careers in chemistry, both of which are underrepresented groups in this area. She is the faculty advisor for the OSU Student Chapter of NOBCChE (National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers) and participates in the Women in Chemistry meetings. These interactions, along with classroom teaching, provide Claudia with a unique opportunity to act as a role model and mentor for women and minority students.
