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As the CEO and Managing Partner of Spark Partners – an organization specializing in innovation-based business growth for technology companies, start-ups, and entrepreneurs – Adam Hartung boasts over 30 years of experience in developing and implementing successful strategies that take advantage of emerging technologies and new business models.

SaiOx, Inc. CEO Manny Teran announced today that the United States Patent Office has awarded a patent to Dr. Sairam Parthasaranthy, M.D., colleague, inventor and University of Arizona pulmonologist, and Dr. Marvin Slepian, Regents Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, UA College of Medicine, for the firm’s Hespiro™ non-invasive respiratory assist device (RAD) designed to help COVID-19, COPD, and other patients breathe more easily.

New technology invented at the University of Arizona could potentially help people who are having trouble breathing due to coronavirus complications. The system, dubbed Hespiro, is a new type of helium-oxygen respiratory-assist device that could help COVID-19 patients and reduce the need for increasingly scarce mechanical ventilators.

The world’s largest independent channel event doesn’t come together without plenty of input from editors who know their community and are committed to partners’ success. As always, the Channel Partners and Channel Futures editorial team is fanning out across Mandalay Bay for the Channel Partners Conference & Expo this week, meeting with exhibitors, hobnobbing with partners, speaking despite our natural introverted tendencies, even team-hosting keynote blocks.

The Pima County Small Business Commission today named its 2015 Small Business of the Year Award winners. The awards have two categories, Rural and Urban. The winners are: