Chris Berka, CEO and Co-Founder of Advanced Brain Monitoring has over 25 years experience managing clinical research and developing and commercializing new technologies. She is co-inventor of eleven patented and ten patent-pending technologies and is the principal investigator or co-investigator for grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health, DARPA, ONR, OSD and NSF that provided more than $32 million of research funds to ABM. Ms. Berka played a key role in the growth of an AMEX public company that patented and commercialized a forensic test to liquefy hair to identify drug use, recruiting a team of scientific advisors, implementing clinical trials, and co-authoring a business plan that raised over $2.5 million. She has 10 years experience as a research scientist with publications on the analysis of the EEG correlates of cognition in healthy subjects and patients with sleep and neurological disorders.