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Built by people who have worked inside the system.

Spektrum Medical Access is led by people whose careers were built inside the same ecosystem we now help our partners navigate — clinical training, operational experience, and an understanding of how health technology actually reaches the people who need it.

John Solms, Founder and Managing Director
John Solms
Founder &
Managing Director

Thirty years across operational medicine, EMS systems, and global health.

John Solms is the founder and managing director of Spektrum Medical. He brings together a career thirty years in the making — operational and protective medical work spanning government, military, for-profit, non-profit, and volunteer service — with academic credentials specifically focused on the discipline that determines whether health technology succeeds in difficult settings: prehospital and community paramedicine, and the structural design of EMS systems.

His Master's in Paramedicine from Creighton University centered on prehospital community paramedicine — the clinical discipline that addresses care for populations beyond the reach of hospitals. His Bachelor's in Emergency Medical Services Administration from Columbia Southern University was focused on the structural side: building EMS systems that actually function in the conditions they face, in the geographies they have to serve.

That combination — credentialed expertise in prehospital and community-level care, layered onto thirty years of operational experience — is what allows Spektrum to engage credibly with the manufacturers, donors, and health authorities working to bring medical technology into the places conventional distribution does not reach.

Academic credentials
  • M.S. Paramedicine — Creighton University Focus on prehospital and community paramedicine
  • B.S. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Administration — Columbia Southern University Designing and operating EMS systems
  • A.S. Security Management — Intec College
  • Advanced EMT & Fire Paramedic — NMETC (Class of 2026)
Career summary
  • Senior Officer — Protective Operations Major Pacific Northwest philanthropic foundation · 2016 – Present
  • Senior Lead — Executive Protection Private investment office of a prominent technology entrepreneur · 2012 – 2016
  • Executive Protection Specialist International risk advisory firm, Pacific Northwest · 2011 – 2012
  • Senior Lead — Protective Operations Protective services firm, Johannesburg, South Africa · 2007 – 2010
  • Protective Agent / Independent Contractor / Military Government and private sector, South Africa · 1995 – 2005
Volunteer service
  • Volunteer EMS Snoqualmie Fire and Rescue, Washington

Beyond the named leadership.

Spektrum Medical Access runs with a deliberately compact named leadership, supported by a working structure of contracted clinical expertise, strategic advisors, and implementation partners. Team members are listed here as they join Spektrum in named roles.

Clinical advisory
Contracted clinical directors

Board-certified emergency physicians engaged per program for clinical authority, protocol design, and program-level medical oversight — particularly where deployment involves training of in-country clinicians.

Field operations
Implementation network

A working network of in-country implementers, clinician trainers, and field maintenance partners — built across the geographies most relevant to deployable medical technology, and selected per engagement based on the specific environment of the program.

If you're a manufacturer, donor, or implementing partner, let's talk.