Dr. Travis Manasco is a physician, entrepreneur, and healthcare investor. He earned his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies. Dr. Manasco completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center and a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. He subsequently obtained board certification in Neurocritical Care, making him one of a small cohort of physicians triple-certified across Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, and Neurocritical Care.

After training, Dr. Manasco co-founded Bio54 and served as Chief Medical Officer, advancing a novel drug-device combination product through Phase 2 clinical trials. He is a Partner at Solas BioVentures and continues to practice clinically in the ICU at WakeMed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, NC.