Our Team

Our Team

Tom

Tom Waddell

CEO

Tom Waddell is the owner and CEO of Waddell Group and the co-founder and former co-owner of Project Leadership Services/PLS Inc. With an extensive history as a leader and senior consultant in the medical device industry, Tom has expertise in technical project management, small company executive management, product development and process reengineering. Tom holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Rich Gall Profile

Rich Gall

Vice President of Sales

Rich Gall brings over 20 years of business to business technical sales experience, networking, and connecting interesting intelligent people to other like-minded people to the Waddell Team. He has driven double digit growth for several technology services firms year over year. More than just a pure contact for sales, he generally gets handed the more difficult client issues to solve. Along the way he looks to connect technology thinkers with technology makers.

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Our Project Leaders

Julie Kaiser-Braden

Project Manager

Julie Kaiser-Braden brings over 20 years of experience to project management, product development, process transfer, manufacturing engineering, and quality systems.

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Guang Zhang Project Manager

Guang Zhang

Project Manager

Guang has over a decade of experience with significant medical device companies. He has led mergers and acquisitions integration projects, as well as executing the implementation of commercial capital equipment project lines.

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Theresa Kimler

Project Manager PE, PMP

Theresa Kimler is a dynamic and resourceful Project Manager with a passion for developing and bringing out team excellence.

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Ryan Anderson

Project Manager

Ryan is a natural, high energy leader with a philosophy of employee development, empowerment, and sustainable long term improvements in performance.

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Henry Pak

Project Manager

Henry Pak has over 25+ years of broad life sciences experience ranging from academic research to industry R&D and management consulting.

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Steven Colbert

PhD, PE

Steve has over 20 years of experience managing projects, 15 years of that in the Medical Device field. One of his more legendary projects included the identification of a new polymer to replace the optic window in a heart catheter.

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