Rick Thomson

Chief Executive Officer - Life Warmer

Rick serves as the CEO of Life Warmer, a Dallas area medical device firm engaged in developing innovative patient temperature control technologies focused on achieving appropriate patient temperatures in critical settings to improve patient outcomes.

After several years on Wall Street with Kidder Peabody, Rick turned his attention to the medical device arena, joining US Surgical to assist in their growth from $172 million to well over a billion dollars in less than eight years during his tenure.  Following that, he has spent the last several years working directly for technology driven manufacturing companies, in early growth stages and ones needing to seek new direction.  Most of these companies have been involved with medical devices or life sciences.

Rick combines his experience in finance on Wall Street; his senior management roles in sales, marketing and business development with aggressive growth medical device companies; and his years managing divisions of electronic and printed circuit board contract manufacturing companies to help develop the appropriate internal teams and external support mechanisms to drive start-up companies and stalled and early growth companies.

Rick holds a BBA in Marketing with an emphasis in Biology from Texas Tech University.