Board of Directors

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Mark Standeford is the Chief Executive Officer of Renovo Concepts, Inc.

Mr. Standeford has over 30 years of experience in medical device development. His leadership in strategic marketing, research & development, LM&A and commercialization has generated significant value to patients, clinicians and companies. 

He has held key positions in the medical device industry at Hill-Rom, KCI and was most recently the CEO at Cardiovate, Inc. He has also been a partner in two start-up business ventures and has served as a commissioner for the City of San Antonio. 

He holds an A.S. and a B.S. from Ball State University along with an MBA from University of Texas and is a certified Project Management Professional.

Louis "Lou" Argenta, MD, is a Co-Founder and the Chief Medical Officer of Renovo Concepts, Inc.

Dr. Argenta founded the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Wake Forest University and served as the Distinguished Howell Professor and Chairman for 20 years before stepping down in 2008. He continues to be academically and clinically active and now devotes two days per week in research and one month a year to Third World health.

Dr. Argenta was born and raised in inner city Detroit. His parents were Italian immigrants who shared a total of three years of formal education. Despite this, they raised three sons, all of whom received advanced post graduate degrees. Argenta graduated from Detroit Catholic Central High School as valedictorian and class president in 1961.  He attended the University of Michigan Undergraduate and Medical School graduating in 1969. Following a surgical internship at the University of Michigan, he was called to the United States Navy during the Vietnam War attaining the rank of Lt. Commander and serving three years, two of which were at sea.

Dr. Argenta returned to Michigan to complete his General Surgery Residency under the aegis of Dr. Jeremiah Turcotte and his Plastic Surgery Residency with Dr. William C. Grabb. He then was invited to France for a highly coveted craniofacial fellowship under Dr. Paul Tessier.  For the next seven years, he served on the University of Michigan surgical faculty rising to the rank of Associate Professor and Interim Head of the Section of Plastic Surgery. In 1988 he accepted an invitation to establish a freestanding Department of Plastic Surgery at Wake Forest University in North Carolina as Professor and Chairman.

During his tenure at Wake Forest the department has become one of the leading programs in America. The Repairx Institute for Innovation was founded by Argenta to foster an environment where multidisciplinary, transitional innovation is encouraged, supported, and nurtured. It has become the largest and most successful laboratory at Wake Forest.  Patent royalties from the Institute have made Wake the second most successful royalty income generating university in the United States.

Dr Argenta is internationally recognized as an expert in the science of mechanobiology and its applications to clinical medicine. This science employs micromechanically controlled energy to induce biological changes in living tissue.  Early in his career at Michigan, he and classmate Eric Austad advanced clinical techniques called mechanical tissue expansion to generate living tissue for reconstruction . These techniques are now successfully used throughout the world for breast, facial, scalp and other reconstructions. More post mastectomy breast reconstruction is performed with this technique than any other procedure.  In 1995 he became the first to correlate deformities of the infant skull with the “Back to sleep” to prevent SIDS campaign. Children that remained in one position while sleeping on their back developed twisted flat heads because of mechanical force placed on the soft neonatal skull.  Argenta demonstrated that the deformity was not a true bony fusion and could be corrected with helmet therapy rather than surgery. His work has been instrumental in allowing these children to avoid major cranial surgery.

The development of Vacuum Assisted Closure, a revolutionary means of treating difficult wounds and burns, has been recognized as Argenta’s most notable discovery. By clinically applying a controlled vacuum through a special device to a wound, the body can be induced to develop new tissue and wounds that previously could not heal actually heal spontaneously. The technique has been used on over three million people and is estimated to have prevented 200,000 amputations. Used by the US Military on almost all battlefield injuries in the Iraqi war, it has dramatically reduced wound infection and complications. Vacuum Assisted Closure has been hailed as the most important advance in wound healing in the past 25 years.

Dr. Argenta married Ginger Argenta while  in medical school and they have shared 44 happy and fulfilling years together. They have eight children, three of whom are in medicine. With their children they have, for the past 15 years, devoted a month a year to providing medical care to the disadvantaged children of the Third World. They have established several hospitals and orphanages in remote underserved areas.  The Argenta family considers themselves blessed to have been able to provide medical and surgical care in over 25 countries throughout the world

William E. Mayer is a Board Member of Renovo Concepts, Inc. 

In 1999 William E. Mayer formed Park Avenue Equity Partners, which is a private equity firm that invests in middle-market companies. 

From the fall of 1992 until December 1996, Mr. Mayer was a professor and Dean of the College of Business and Management at the University of Maryland. During his tenure at the University of Maryland, Mr. Mayer organized and led an effort that significantly improved the school’s programs and made it one of the top 25 ranked business schools in the country. From 1991 to 1992, Mr. Mayer served as a professor and Dean of the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester.

Mr. Mayer worked for The First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse), a major investment bank, for 23 years. During his career at First Boston, Mr. Mayer held numerous management positions including President and Chief Executive Officer. 

Mr. Mayer is currently a board member of two public companies: BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation and Premier Inc., a healthcare improvement company that uses the power of the Premier Alliance to achieve high-quality, cost-effective healthcare. Over the years, he has been a member of the board of directors of numerous other publicly-traded and privately held companies. Mr. Mayer was Chairman of the Aspen Institute from 2000 to 2008 and is currently on the Board of Trustees. He is also past Chairman of the Board of the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. 

He is a board member of Lirio, Inc., Friends of Florence, Washington Institute and Aspen Institute Italia. He is also a member of the Board of Governors at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an advisory council member at Harlem Academy.

Mr. Mayer was named to the 2013 NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors), which honors leaders in corporate governance and in the boardroom.

Mr. Mayer was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He holds a BS and an MBA from the University of Maryland.