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Thomas Sandgaard is a Danish-American entrepreneur and inventor based out of Colorado. Sandgaard is known as the founder and CEO of Zynex Inc. In 2012, he was nominated for the Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young.

Career
Sandgaard was born and raised in Denmark. In 1996, he moved to the United States and later he was granted a naturalized citizenship of the United States. He obtain his BSc in electrical and electronics engineering from University of Southern Denmark. He graduated from Copenhagen Business School with a MBA degree in marketing.

Notably in 1996, he founded Zynex Inc in Englewood, Colorado, which became well-known in manufacturing electrotherapy devices for use in pain management, neurological diagnosis and non-invasive cardiac monitoring. In 1998, as an inventor he was able to obtain a Food and Drug Administration approval for one of Zynex's product, “an electric-stimulation device that managed pain and increased blood circulation to promote healing.” In August 2018, he founded The Sandgaard Foundation with a goal to end the opioid epidemic and save lives from opioid overdose.

In 2020, The Sun reported that, Sandgaard showed interest in buying Charlton Athletic F.C..

Patents obtained by Thomas Sandgaard

 * Method and apparatus for non-invasively detecting blood volume imbalances in a mammalian subject (20190150761), 2019
 * Methods and apparatus for estimating a blood volume of a mammalian subject (20120016246), 2012
 * Electromyogram-triggered neuromuscular stimulation device and method (20050113883), 2005