Richard Otto

Dr. Richard Otto is a Co Founder of Impact Cryotherapy and also serves as its President & Chief Executive Officer. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at Coratus Genetics. He was the Chief Executive Officer & the President at REACH Health. Otto has spent the past 35 years in the cardiac therapy industry. From September 1995 to March 1998 he served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of CardioDynamics International Corporation. Otto has served as a consultant to the founder of WebMD and as a consultant to the Cardiac Rhythm Management division of St. Jude Medical. His career includes key management positions with Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (now a division of Boston Scientific Corporation). Otto also held positions at Intermedics, Inc., Medtronic Inc., and Eli Lilly and Company. Otto has served on the Georgia Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and Leukemia Society. Otto is an advisor to the Advanced Technology Development Center and Georgia Research Alliance located in Atlanta, Georgia. Additionally, Otto serves on the Board of the Georgia Meth Project aimed at eradicating methamphetamine abuse. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Georgia.