Aethon Leadership

Aldo Zini
President & CEO
Aldo Zini has been at the forefront of the technology revolution in hospital patient safety for more than 15 years, instrumental in driving change into a marketplace attached to the status quo. He continues that leadership as President and CEO of Aethon, a robotic engineering company that has developed an innovative automation platform to improve supply chain logistics. Aethon's current focus is healthcare, where its core product TUG is being used to automate the delivery of goods (meds, supplies, meals, equipment, etc.) in hospitals.

Zini's successes began long before taking the helm at Aethon. His contributions to technology-driven companies have led to acquisitions worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

From 1991-96, he was the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Automated Healthcare, which developed the first robotic medication dispensing system for hospitals (ROBOT-Rx) and was acquired by McKessonHBOC in 1996 for $67 million. He joined the founder during the early stage startup of this company and played a key role in VC funding, company and product development, product launch, sales and marketing.

From 1996-99, Zini assumed corporate responsibilities with McKessonHBOC as Senior Vice President of Marketing, where his Institutional Division's annual sales grew from $1 billion to $5 billion. Zini played a key role in building this company into one of the largest success stories in Pittsburgh. Automated Healthcare (now McKesson Automation Group) has generated more revenue and employed more people than any other technology company in the region over the last 15 years.

Before joining and investing in Aethon, he was Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for TechRX, the largest provider of software solutions to the pharmacy industry, which was sold to NDC Corporation for over $200 million.

In 2002, Zini invested in the start-up of Aethon — founded by robot entrepreneur Henry Thorne — and joined the company to lead its sales and marketing efforts.  Soon after Aethon's first institutional funding, Zini became the company's President and CEO.

Zini owns several patents in medication dispensing technology, and is credited with the development of key methodologies in quantifying the value proposition for several technology platforms deployed in hundreds of hospitals across the country.

Zini received a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and graduated with high honors from Carnegie-Mellon (1987), where he received a Master's in Public Management (Health Systems IT).

Steve Kane
Executive Vice President & General Manager
Steven H. Kane, a healthcare industry executive known for his success in building hospital pharmacy automation companies, joins Aethon as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the MedEx™ business line.

Kane's focus is on Aethon's MedEx platform, an integrated hardware and software system that allows hospital pharmacies to track, monitor and document the delivery of every medication as it is prepared and delivered to patients. Kane is responsible for the management, positioning, sales and marketing of the MedEx solution.

With more than 30 years’ experience in healthcare leadership, Kane has a proven track record of taking healthcare technology companies from early stages to valuations of more than $1 billion. He is recognized for his ability to drive sales growth and create stakeholder value through sales, marketing and operations, and raising capital from both private and public sources. Most recently, Kane served as president and CEO of Patient Safety Technologies Inc. where he increased sales from $3 million to $7 million in the first year. Previously he was instrumental in taking Pyxis Corporation, a provider of automated medication dispensing systems, from a start-up to a $1 billion company that was acquired by Cardinal Health. He also served as the vice president of sales and North American field operations at Aspect Medical Systems, where he grew sales from under $1 million to a run rate of $48 million in less than three years, leading to an initial public offering and market capitalization exceeding $1 billion.

Spencer Allen
Chief Technology Officer
Spencer Allen received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University in 1982. He founded Simtronics Inc., a product design business in 1987. Simtronics was a successful contract developer of electronic products, including low-power portable gas monitors, medical instrumentation, power measurement equipment and traffic counting equipment. Allen sold Simtronics to Market Central Inc. in 1996, where he became the Chief Technical Officer.

At Market Central, Allen developed physical layer switching systems for wired and fiber optic networks, laboratory instrumentation, high-voltage power supplies for biomedical separation and electrophoresis applications, desktop computer peripheral devices, telephone switching products and a portable high-power microwave dosimeter. Allen joined Aethon, Inc. in 2004 as Chief Technology Officer.

Brian Curren
Vice President of Professional Support Services
Brian Curren received a BS in Health Service Administration from Slippery Rock University in 1996. He has over 10 years of experience implementing automation products and services in the healthcare market. He is the former Technical Product Manager for McKesson Automation, where he was responsible for the definition and launch of new products and enhancements for the AcuDose-Rx and Robot-Rx product lines. In addition, he held positions at McKesson Automation where he was responsible for customer implementations and post-implementation account management.

Robert Reilly
Chief Financial Officer
Robert Reilly received a BS degree in Accounting from Duquesne University in 1978 and is a certified public accountant. Reilly, who was most recently Vice President - General Manager for the Specialty Pharmacy Division of a major healthcare service provider, brings over 30 years of diverse experience in finance and operations to Aethon.

In his General Manager role, Reilly led the relocation of McKesson's Specialty Pharmacy business to Pittsburgh and played a critical role in achieving consistent double-digit revenue growth quarter over quarter. Reilly had previously served as CFO for McKesson's Automation Group, which consisted of multiple business units serving both hospital and retail pharmacy markets. He also held various CFO and senior finance positions with both public and private companies and spent six years with a big-four public accounting firm. Reilly joined Aethon in 2008 as Chief Financial Officer.

Peter Seiff
Senior Vice President of Business Development
Peter Seiff received a BA in Economics from Brown University in 1990. He has over 14 years of experience delivering technology solutions to the healthcare market with a wide range of responsibilities in rapidly growing organizations. He is the former President of McKesson Pharmacy Systems in Livonia, Michigan, the #1 pharmacy system provider in the U.S. Previously, Seiff was Vice President of Sales, Marketing, Product Management and Business Development at McKesson Automated Healthcare.

David Wolfe
Director of Project Management
Dave Wolfe received a BS in Information Systems in 1987 from Slippery Rock University. He previously worked as a healthcare management consultant and was Senior Technical Account Manager for McKesson Automated Healthcare prior to joining Aethon in 2003. From 1992-2002, he was Automated Healthcare's first Project Manager and succeeded to Senior Technical Account Manager. He led the early adoption of Robotic technology in hospital pharmacies by developing the installation process for the ROBOT-Rx system.

Mario Zini
Vice President of Technical Support Services
Mario Zini received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Point Park College in 1987 and is currently pursuing a MS in Engineering Management. He is the former Director of On-Site Field Service for McKesson Automated Healthcare, where he built a national field service group and customer service help desk consisting of 135 people responsible for installation and emergency on-site response for the support of 350 hospital customers.