Q&A with Peter Bianco
Check out this Q & A with one of our coworking members, Peter Bianco!
Q: What brought you to Rochester and what keeps you here?
A: I was born and raised in Rochester. I’m a Mayo High School graduate. My parents stayed in Rochester after my Dad retired from Mayo Clinic and I have a sister and three brothers that live here as well so as much as I left Rochester for a long time, there has always been a strong pull back to my roots. I started working on OsteoApp.ai just before the announcement of the establishment of the Mayo Clinic AI Platform. As soon as I heard that, I reached out and started working with their team on how to access the data we needed to advance our artificial intelligence driven x-ray based bone mineral density tools. Its been a perfect match and a terrific partnership and has enabled our ability to develop our products with the most comprehensive training data sets in existence. We’ve been gearing up to begin active development and we are just about ready to go. I’m adding to the local team and we are coming to critical mass quickly. It’s the relationships with the Mayo Platform and our Clinical partners at Mayo Clinic that make Rochester the only real choice for OsteoApp.ai to become the groundbreaking effort its destined to be.
Q: What are some of your hobbies and interests?
A: I’ve been a guitar player since I was a wee lad. I played in bands in Rochester all through High School. As I’ve gotten older, I developed an addiction for vintage guitar collecting, which is a deep passion of mine. It’s a true sickness for which there is no cure, and I love it. I also started playing tennis and paddle tennis since I’ve lived on the east coast. Paddle tennis is a great outdoor cold weather sport and It helps keep me in shape and my brain sharp. It has a whole culture and community that has been fun to be part of.
Q: What do you do for work?
A: I'm the Founder, President, and Board Chair of OsteoApp.ai. that’s enough for the moment.
Q: Why did you choose Collider for your workspace?
A: Collider has been instrumental and extremely welcoming in providing a landing site for Osteoapp.ai. Everyone I’ve encountered there have been truly accommodating and bent over backwards to help us as we begin the gradual migration towards establishing the company’s human and physical infrastructure in Rochester. I’m not sure I could pull off this phase of the company’s formation in Rochester without it. We are just getting started but Collider has already been a huge reason why I’m so adamant that OsteoApp.ai will be recognized as a proud, cutting edge Rochester, MN based start-up that is poised to have a significant impact on the detection and early intervention for millions of patients with low bone mass who are at risk for debilitating bone fractures.
