Bianca Martinez Rhodes

‍Bianca Martinez Rhodes is the President of Knight Areospace Medical Systems, LLC, which designs and manufactures specialized aerospace products that maximize the utilization of cargo aircraft.

Bianca began her career as a Commercial Banker for National Bank of Commerce, the second largest bank in San Antonio. After six years, she left to work for one of her clients, TexCom Management Services, a computer leasing company. She helped the Company consolidate a 34 bank group into one which positioned the company to be sold to Intelogic Trace, (NYSE:IT), for which she became the Chief Financial Officer.

After Intelogic Trace, she joined Kinetic Concepts Inc. (NASDQ: KNCI) whom she had helped to take public a few years earlier. As its CFO, she engineered a turnaround which more than quadrupled the company’s valuation and enabled its private offering just three years later.

After KCI’s successful private sale and wanting to focus more on her three young children, she started consulting for a number of private enterprises, specializing in financial and operating issues. She has also managed her family’s asset portfolio consisting of several apartment complexes, single family homes, and various other real estate ventures. Rhodes has successfully raised capital, structured buyouts, and advised dozens of companies, primarily in the health care sector.

Her career includes numerous voluntary positions especially targeted to women’s real choices including the founding of Any Woman Can, and various civic board positions with organizations such as AirLife San Antonio, Junior Achievement of San Antonio, Big Brothers and Sisters of San Antonio, Lighthouse for the Blind, and the San Antonio Greater Chamber of Commerce.

Bianca graduated from the University of Texas with a BBA in Finance. Besides her family, her passions include reading, God, and the mountains of Colorado.