OUR TEAM

Richard A. "Doc" Clinchy - CEO

Dr. Clinchy has over 50 years prehospital emergency care experience. Starting as a firefighter in New York State, his EMS career has taken him to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the US Virgin Islands, Louisiana, and now Florida. He has had the pleasure of sharing EMS education and experiences with providers on every continent of the world other than Antarctica. He has worked as an EMT, paramedic, firefighter, flight medic, hyperbaric technologist, and public safety officer, as well as both a part-time and full-time EMS educator. For an more expansive biographical background on Doc Clinchy, use the link provided in the left column of this page.

Duane C. "Charlie" Barber

Duane, or Charlie as he is better known by his friends, is a retired Professional Firefighter and experienced EMS educator. Barber has extensive experience and significant advanced education on the areas of hazardous materials, CBRNE, and Homeland Security. As a long-time colleague of Doc Clinchy with the Florida One Federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Charlie is the member of the EMR LLC team we most rely upon for products and issues impacting the Professional Firefighter.

Michael Chesne

Mike's US Army career spanned 25 years.  Starting as a US Army Ranger, he then went on to become a Special Forces medic with the 5th Special Forces Group and for the last eight years of his Army career, Mike was part of an elite Special Operations unit.  At his retirement, Chesne was a Special Forces Sergeant Major. After his retirement until 2012, Mike and his partner Jim Parsons, operated Carolina Medical Suppliers and created the Aegis line of medical products designed for use by military medical personnel. Chesne has also created the Back-Jack, a lower-back support device that is finding greater and greater acceptance among military personnel who are constantly exposing their spines to extreme stresses secondary to the loads they must necessarily carry. Mike has recently joined ADVON HEALTHCARE as Managing Director of Medical Operations.

Robert T. "Bob" Clayton

Bob's US Army Special Operations career spanned 20 years, from 1963-1983. A decorated Vietnam veteran, Bob served in various positions in conventional, aviation, and unconventional units. Duties included leadership skills, training and operations, personnel and financial management, logistics and research, and developmental projects. From 1983-1985, Bob was a consultant to Syracuse Research Corporation serving as a field engineer and project coordinator for man-portable ground radar systems. From 1985-1992 he was a Civil Service consultant at the John F. Kennedy Center for Special Warfare serving in various positions of increasing responsibility. From 1985 to 1987, he served as the project officer responsible for communications and electronics development for the Special Forces tactical communications programs. From 1987-1989, Clayton was the Test and Evaluation officer for Special Forces Research & Development. From 1989-1990 Bob served Deputy Chief of Materiel and Organization for Force Modernization and from 1990-1992 was Chief of Test and Evaluation. Starting in 1992 through 2000, Clayton served as Director of Research and Development for the US Army Special Operations Command, responsible for the equipping and developing of funding for the Medical Modernization of Special Forces, US Army Rangers, and Special Operations Aviation units. In 2000, Bob relocated to Tampa and MacDill Air Force Base where he served until 2009 as the Biomedical Research and Development Coordinator for the US Special Operations Command, having responsibility for the management, funding, and oversight of all Medical Modernization activities for Special Operations organizations including US Army Special Forces, US Navy Special Warfare Command, US Air Force Special Operations Command, the Joint Special Forces Command, and the US Marine Special Operations Command. Following forty-six years' service to the nation, Bob has functioned as an independent consultant providing small businesses and start-up companies with assistance in the marketing of products to Federal, State, local, and foreign governments.

Lawrence S. Kronick

Larry Kronick operates his own company, Business Asia Consultants, Inc. Fluent in Chinese and having an office and partner in Hong Kong, he has become EMR's key source for introducing our clients to the Asian markets. Initially, Kronick worked for the Bank of China in New York City and then moved to China for many years selling imaging equipment in China and elsewhere in Asia. As Mr. Kronick spends about one-half of the year traveling throughout Asia, if you require distribution or representation in Asia, we will be delighted to arrange a meeting for you with this tremndously valuable member of the EMR team.

Harvey M. Novak

Mr. Novak has over forty years engineering experience and his company, 1100 Energy Corp. specializes in in power management and battery systems. With so many medical devices and systems reliant on infallible electrical resources, Novak brings to EMR consulting expertise for clients needing guidance on better, smaller, lighter, and more effeicient sources of electricity. Mr. Novak is working with EMR LLC in the development of new, revolutionary products for the battlefield, EMS, and hospital management of the critically injured patient.

Royce Rumsey

When Doc Clinchy and Bob Clayton first conceived of a device that could be used for surgical cricothyrotomy in combat casualty care, the inital prototype and crude drawings were taken to Bio Cybernetics International, a company for whom Doc was then consulting. As the design "guru" for Bio Cybernetics, Royce took the original work and rapidly converted the ideas to a functional design. The result of that collaboration was the CRIC Airway System that is now in the hands of a Canadian company, Pyng Medical. Royce has an exemplary background in product design as evidenced by the array of products and markets that may be found at Brand Design by Royce Rumsey. No one in the experience of any of us on the EMR team has the breadth and depth of great design capabilities as does Royce. If you are in need of innovative, intuitive, and rugged product design or product modification, Royce Rumsey will bring the best in design and innovation to your needs.

Geoffrey Williams

Mr. Wiliams, our colleague from Scotland, is the founder and CEO of 3Ci Global Solutions, UK Ltd.  Prior to his retirement from the Fire Services he was the principal officer within the Central Scotland Fire and Rescue Services.  Working with similarly experienced associates from UK law enforcement and fire services, 3Ci Global has created software enabling superior management of management of teams combating terrorism and supporting disaster management.   In addition, 3Ci and their US colleagues offer to governments and business their "6R" system for daily management for crisis and breaks the process down into six steps: Readiness; Response; Re-energize; Recovery; Reexamine; Remodel.  This is a system that should become a standard for anyone responsible for crisis management.  Mr. Williams CV may be found on our CONTACTS page and an introduction to the 6R System may be found on our NEWS page.