Gener8 Leadership Team
Our executive team brings decades of leadership and expertise in global business, leading technologies, design innovation, and superior development strategies to ensure the success of our customers.
David Klein
Dave Klein founded Gener8 in 2002. Dave is involved at all stages of Gener8’s customer engagement and pulls from his deep experience in electromechanical development and vast medical, biotech, and industrial market knowledge. With this background, he advises clients on solid technology strategies while also assuring that their needs are met throughout development, manufacturing, and beyond.
Before launching Gener8, he held leadership roles at HDI Instrumentation, and Gemfire Corporation. Dave earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Dave’s life philosophy to always consider himself a craftsman never a master craftsman as “it is an ideal that cannot be reached” rings through in his personal life as well as business life.
He has progressed through his aviation hobby going “from model planes as a kid, to hang gliders since I was in grad school, to small airplanes (and hang gliders today).” We’re all very curious to learn what comes after small planes.
Jeremy Schroetter
Jeremy is Vice President and General Manager of Software at Gener8, where he brings more than 25 years of healthcare technology experience across all three sides of the industry — regulated medical devices, payer platforms, and global engineering services. Having sat in the seat Gener8’s clients sit in, he knows what it takes to carry a product from concept through regulatory clearance and into the field.
Before joining Gener8, Jeremy served as Vice President of Digital Solutions at Tactile Medical, where he built global product engineering teams for regulated medical devices, launched two new devices and five digital platforms, and led the connected-device and mobile strategy behind the company’s patient therapy and adherence analytics. As President and CTO of a UnitedHealth Group Ventures startup, he led digital product engineering for an enterprise health platform, delivering secure cloud-native applications and complex data integrations inside the payer ecosystem. Earlier, he was CTO of Medical Technology and Healthcare at GlobalLogic, and held engineering and product roles at Medtronic, Prime Therapeutics, Qualcomm, and several startups.
Jeremy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA in Healthcare from the University of St. Thomas. He lives in the Minneapolis area with his wife and children, curls in a local league, and travels whenever he can — though he’ll take any excuse to spend a day chasing walleye on Minnesota’s lakes.
Brian Eastman
Brian Eastman is a seasoned engineering leader with experience in mechanical design, product development, and program management across the medical device, life sciences, biotech, and consumer electronics industries. As Vice President of the Program Management Office at Gener8, Brian works closely with customers and cross-functional teams to turn ideas into successful products, ensuring both technical excellence and business impact from concept to commercialization.
Before stepping into his current role, Brian served as both a technical lead and project manager at Gener8 since 2018 and became the Director of Engineering in early 2024. Beyond Gener8, Brian has a history of entrepreneurial ventures, having founded Mindset Design LLC, a product development consultancy, and co-founded Plastic Sample Kits, a company that supported engineers in material selection. Earlier in his career, he held engineering roles at Abbott, BioNex Solutions, and Amphenol working on surgical devices, lab automation, and designs for injection molding.
Brian’s leadership style is candid, honest, and supportive—he sees himself as someone who empowers his team rather than simply managing them. He leads by example, promoting a solution-oriented mindset and a commitment to continuous improvement. Brian earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. Outside of work, he enjoys gardening, backpacking, and spending time with his two sons and wife in Napa, California.
Mark Chatfield
Mark Chatfield boasts thirty years of experience in specialized x-rays, chromatography, and mass spectroscopy. Mark has extensive experience manufacturing complex instruments in Life Sciences. He is an Ops professional proficient in modern manufacturing techniques like Lean, Six Sigma and Class A planning and scheduling. Mark leads Gener8’s global operations transformation across our multi-site manufacturing footprint contributing to the growth and expansion of Gener8’s teams and locations.
Prior to joining Gener8, Mark was responsible for running operations in the fields specialized x-rays, chromatography, and mass spectroscopy at Thermo Fisher Scientific. He studied Business Administration at San Jose State University during his tenure there.
When Mark is not in the office, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter.
Bhavin Shah
Bhavin brings over 30 years of experience spanning product development, engineering leadership, and medical device commercialization. For the first 20 years of his career, he led hands‑on product development in semiconductor fab automation equipment and embedded computing industries, building and managing software, firmware, and multidisciplinary engineering teams delivering complex instrumentation and automation platforms for OEMs.
Most recently, Bhavin spent 12 years as Vice President Engineering at Tecan Group, and Vice President Engineering and Quality at Paramit Corporation, where he directed development of manufacturing test strategies and infrastructure for FDA-regulated lab automation systems, oversaw full lifecycle development of life sciences instruments and medical devices, from concept to manufacturing in collaboration with design engineering team, and implemented software-defined manufacturing principles to enhance test coverage, traceability, and yield, to only name a few.
Cynthia Merrell
With a career spanning over 35 years in manufacturing and product development, Cynthia Merrell brings a wide breadth of product experience to her role as Vice President of Quality and Regulatory at Gener8 Corporation. Cynthia has demonstrated expertise in developing and implementing strategic solutions, achieving high standards in quality assurance, regulatory compliance and control systems in medical device and diagnostic companies.
Cynthia has expertise in CAPA and design controls, documentation and current FDA programs including 21 CFR Part 11, Cybersecurity, SaMD, and breakthrough devices, and working with major notified bodies including TUV, BSI, Intertek, and DEKRA.
Before joining Gener8, Cynthia served in leadership roles at various startups including Vave Health, Clip Health, VitalConnect, and eNeura, Inc.
Cynthia earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Beyond the audit room, Cynthia enjoys reading, history, and playing with her vast collection of Legos.
Dana Arbach
Dana brings over 25 years of global HR leadership to Gener8, specializing in workforce scaling, portfolio alignment, and geographical expansion. With a career spanning the semiconductor and life science industries, she is an expert at transforming HR into a full-service strategic partner for executive teams.
Most recently, Dana served as Global VP of HR at ams-OSRAM for eight years, where she oversaw the Americas and the Semiconductors Business Unit. Her previous tenure includes high-impact roles at Marvell Semiconductor, PerkinElmer (now Revvity), and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Dana began her career as a Senior Paralegal in Bucharest, Romania, where she specialized in enterprise establishment. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Bucharest Polytechnic University and completed three years of legal studies, providing her with a unique analytical and regulatory perspective on global human capital.