Mark Faulkner is passionately committed to leveraging the power of science to help everyone live their best, healthiest, and most active lives. An avid inventor and innovator, he holds 19 patents and has founded several companies rooted in science and dedicated to world-class research. Mark’s goal is to revolutionize global health through innovation in the nutraceutical and biochemistry markets. Mark co-founded a forensic toxicology lab that specialized in athletic drug testing. He was committed to keeping athletes safe, and the lab’s original staff developed the steroid testing program for the National Football League (NFL). The lab’s work included testing for many Olympic and NCAA athletes. His passion for helping athletes find safe, effective products to improve their endurance led him to launch Vireo Systems in 2002. Mark and his team of scientists conducted peptide and amino acid research in partnership with leading universities. His goal was to find a safe and effective option for steroids. His team began to focus on creatine but found the products on the market lacking efficacy. The Vireo team started to focus on creatine hydrochloride (C-HCI.) The team synthesized a molecule, a unique form of creatine, and discovered it was a super strong version of creatine. The resulting product proved to be not only safe but outperformed the leading sports nutrition options. Mark trademarked the supplement and called it CON-CRET. Today, CON-CRET is the #1 absorbed and best-selling, most widely licensed creatine. It is the only form of creatine that delivers superior performance results without adverse side effects, such as digestive distress, often associated with creatine. The creatine research has been ground-breaking, and the team has been awarded numerous patents for their work. Research continues to reaffirm the efficacy of creatine and demonstrate the additional product benefits, including providing energy to all cells, including immune-boosting t-cells. Vireo is a Latin word for health, and Mark is passionate about improving the lives of people and pets by delivering premium, healthy products through world-class research, innovation, and manufacturing.

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Nicole St. John is an Occupational Therapist with a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from the College of St. Scholastica and is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS). As part of Hennepin Healthcare’s TBI Program, she has treated a wide range of diagnoses with a focus on neurological dysfunction and visual impairments related to brain injury. Nicole specializes in neuro-vision rehabilitation and is passionate about helping clients return to meaningful function through a holistic, multi-faceted approach to recovery.

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Kim Wyand is a physical therapist who currently works for Sway Medical as their director of customer experience. For the past ten years she has been working in various outpatient orthopedic settings and with sports teams and over the last six has specialized in concussion management and vestibular rehabilitation. Kim was a regional program coordinator for a concussion management team that helped to train other PTs and ATs on concussion management and provide education to various community groups and referral sources. Kim earned her doctorate of physical therapy degree from Springfield College and played volleyball there as well.

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