Kevin McMahon is a co-founder of Diabetech, LP, serves as Chief Executive Officer and is the primary author of over a dozen clinical research protocols involving the company’s industry leading GlucoMON GSM/GPRS wireless blood sugar monitoring devices. McMahon and his Company were recognized at the ADA Scientific Sessions in 2007 as pioneers in the field of wireless enabled medical devices and outpatient management.

In May of 2001, his then 27-month-old daughter, Darby, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes leading him to author 2 patents pending. Improving methods of technology enhanced diabetes care remain his driving force.

Coincidentally, between 1997 and early 2002, Kevin led several international teams in the areas of healthcare and telecommunications. As the Director of Mobile Commerce for Compaq he led sales, solution and business development teams in the area of wireless network infrastructure, the earliest combination PDA/cellular device (ie - GSM iPAQ cellular PDA), innovative applications for location based wireless services (eg – E911). Participated as a member of the CDMA Steering Committee within the wireless industry (’97 – ‘00) and Member Bluetooth SIG (2003 - current). Also during this time, he was Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Elagent Corp., a Richardson, Texas based startup with a next-generation DARPA funded distributed agent-based computing platform. Prior to November of 1997, Kevin was instrumental in building the deregulated phone company arm of GTE. In the early 90s, he reorganized financial and software development processes of the MedSeries4 hospital information system (HIS) now offered by Siemens Medical and also the Qcare mainframe managed care administration system. Kevin began his corporate career working on a transaction-based system as part of a pre-internet physician’s office medical claims processing service bureau.

Last 5 posts by Kevin

• What's in a name? - March 7th, 2010
• Steve Ponder MD, CDE - Headliner Extraordinaire - January 22nd, 2010
• Fallen Hero Now a Competitor? - January 20th, 2010
• Man Made Barriers to a Man Made Solution - January 16th, 2010
• Healthy Families of South Texas - Launch Day - December 31st, 2009