Our Leadership

The People Behind Gal3n

The Gal3n management team comprises experienced entrepreneurs and industry professionals who bring a wealth of expertise to this growing company. They foster a strong organizational culture and are dedicated to enhancing people's lives by expanding access to quality healthcare.
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Dr. Melvin A. Martinez-Castrillon

Co-founder and CEO
A successful invasive and clinical cardiologist and leading cardiovascular researcher in Congestive heart failure, Dr. Martinez has been practicing cardiovascular medicine in South Florida since 2003 and at the forefront of cardiac innovations. Data-driven, analytic, evidence based with extensive experience developing, leading, and managing high-performing, diverse teams around cardiovascular health treatment initiatives and protocols to improve outcomes, cost containment and ease of service delivery within multispecialty clinic systems.

Dr. Martinez has helped to develop treatment protocols for Congestive heart failure and peripheral-vascular disease for several multi-specialty clinics advising on cardiovascular disease management while improving those systems bottom lines while advocating and keeping in line with specialty treatment guidelines.

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Chris Chowquan

Co-Founder and CIO
Leading information technology teams for full-risk, integrated care delivery networks such as Humana Healthcare, Continucare, MetCare, and CAC Medical Centers, Chris played a pivotal role in ensuring data security, maintaining business continuity, and delivering innovative solutions to over 120 remote healthcare facilities across the United States.

With an entrepreneurial spirit, Chris founded Healthchat in 2015, a global telehealth platform connecting medical centers, providers, and patients. He actively participates in South Florida's entrepreneurial community and frequently shares insights as a speaker on topics ranging from start-ups to healthcare business and education.

Bringing a distinctive technical perspective to Gal3n, Chris holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with a focus on information technology from Florida Atlantic University.

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Brian Wallace

Co-Founder and CTO
Brian founded Effective Consulting LLC in Miami, FL 20 years ago as a full-spectrum IT Consultancy and Managed Service Provider. Over these last 2 decades, he has built a team of engineers and honed their technical skillsets through continuous training as well as his leadership on many large-scale deployment projects for both US-based & global clients. Presently the company provides network design services & end-to-end support for over 100 firms around the globe.

As CEO of the company, Brian brings a successful, agile entrepreneurial perspective to the team, with a thorough understanding of business operations and streamlining of service delivery. From his lead engineering role on earlier projects he also carries many years of technical expertise in both systems and network design.

He was born and raised in Miami, and has been involved with technology from very young, landing an internship at Burger King World Headquarters’ nascent Online Division, while still in high-school.

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Raul Calvoz

Board Advisor
Raúl Calvoz began his career as an attorney handling litigation and corporate matters. After ten years practicing law, Raúl transitioned into business leadership. At 3M Company he served as a Global Business Manager, as well as Executive Committee Member with over $1 billion in revenue. After 3M, he served as Vice President & Executive Committee Member, Europe for Travelocity where he was based in London and was responsible for pan-European businesses with over $400 million in sales.

Upon returning to the U.S., he served as CEO of PetsMD until its acquisition in early 2011. He has since been active working with early-stage companies. Raúl earned his J.D. summa cum laude from St. Mary’s University School of Law, where he served as Editor for the St. Mary’s Law Journal. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Texas and was a Kozmetsky Award recipient.

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