Development Team

40 J's LLC, the La Crème d'Amour Development Partners

Member Background

40 J's LLC is an "invitation only" development corporation of twenty eight individuals with in excess of 300 years experience in medical/personal care product development, clinical evaluation and patent protection of those products. Ronald J. Thompson MD established the LLC in early 1999.

The president of 40 J's is Robert C. Hassman. Mr. Hassman brings twenty years of medical sales and medical device company management to define, direct, and execute the business objectives of 40 J's LLC.

The developer, Ronald James Thompson, M.D. is a Board Certified obstetrician/ gynecologist who has cared for women and their health care concerns for over thirty- one years. Dr. Thompson has extensive experience in drug development and clinical drug evaluation, all within the focus of gynecology and infertility. Besides teaching surgery and surgical procedures, Dr. Thompson has numerous patents in infertility, women's urinary incontinence,uterine bleeding, and women's sexual responsiveness. Dr. Thompson is and has been a surgical consultant to a number of medical companies.

Dr. Thompson has been married for twenty-nine years to his wife, Dr.Jo Ann Thompson, and together they have raised their four children in the same community where he, his parents, and grandparents have all raised their children. Interestingly, Dr.Thompson's four sons are currently following him into medical, medical research, and biomedical engineering.

In addition, the LLC has six defined skill set groups:

Physicians

The LLC has nine physician members with medical/personal care product experience. Four of the physicians are board-certified gynecologists and are partners of Dr. Thompson in the practice of OB/GYN.

Biomedical Engineers

There are three biomedical engineers, each of whom owns her/his own consulting companies for the development and regulation of medical personal care products bring extensive experience to the LLC.

Medical Marketing and Management

The team includes eight very skilled and experienced individuals, one senior Vice President of the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, and four others who have been or are the President/CEO of medical device/personal care products companies.

Medico Legal

The group includes five lawyers, who are all in independent practice: One patent lawyer, one corporate lawyer, and three lawyers, who practice medical malpractice defense including product liability.

Nurses

The group includes three advanced degree nurses in obstetrics, gynecology, women's healthcare, patient care and product evaluation. This group provides unique insight to properly evaluate and position 40 J's products in the marketplace. As a company whose mission is to develop and market products for women, this input is an essential component to product acceptance by women.

Technical Writing

The group has one PhD in English who oversees all documents written and printed.

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