Michael Mayor, co-founder of DBEC, is the emeritus William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor of Surgery in Orthopaedics at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and emeritus Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He received his B.E.E. from Yale's Sheffield School of Engineering and his M.D. degree from the Yale School of Medicine. He is a member of the American Orthopaedic Association, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and the Orthopaedic Research Society. Mayor has served with the F4 Committee of ASTM including terms as chairman, the FDA's Advisory Panel on Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices including terms as chairman, and on the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' and the Orthopaedic Research Society's committees. He has authored over 30 published articles and delivered more than 20 conference presentations on orthopaedic implant retrieval analysis and biomechanics. He has served on the thesis committees for bachelors, masters, and PhD students at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth for thirty years.