Our Founding Members
Who We Are
Yvonne Rodriguez
Founder and CEO
Yvonne Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Egality Sciences, LLC. Originally from Socorro, Texas, she started working on clinical trials after receiving her BBA from St. Mary’s University, in San Antonio, Texas. She brings over 20 years of clinical research industry experience including clinical research sites, IRBs, CROs, and pharmaceutical and biomedical device companies.
Prior to starting Egality Sciences, LLC, Yvonne worked at AstraZeneca and led inclusion and diversity work that has yielded successful results globally.
Yvonne holds a Master’s of Science in health sciences from George Washington University, and has received a professional certificate from Oxford University.
Mynor Eduardo Rodriguez
Chief Legal Officer
Mynor “Eddie” Rodriguez is the Chief Legal Officer of Egality Sciences. Mr. Rodriguez is the legal executive appointed to govern Egality Sciences’ legal department and provides direction on major legal and regulatory issues.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Rodriguez served in private practice specializing in consumer protection issues representing broad range of business and individual clients. From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Rodriguez served the State of Texas as the Chief Committee Clerk of the Human Services Committee in the Texas House of Representatives where he managed legislation concerning the public welfare of the people of Texas.
From 2002-2003, Mr. Rodriguez served as a briefing attorney for the Court of Appeals, Thirteenth District in Corpus Christi, Texas. Although an intermediate appellate court, this court typically is last word on cases from the district and county courts of 20 South Texas counties. He assisted the court in analysis and drafting of opinions ranging from criminal matter to high value civil appeals.
Mr. Rodriguez earned his Bachelor of Arts from St. Mary’s University in 1997. In 2002, he received his Doctorate of Jurisprudence from St. Mary’s University School of Law. During his tenure at law school, he completed the Global Legal Issues program at the Institute of World Legal Problems at the University of Innsbruck, Austria as well as receiving his Masters in International Relations from St. Mary’s University.
Mr. Rodriguez currently lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and young child.
Rene M. Rodriguez, CMO
Chief Medical Director
As Egality Science's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Rodriguez serves as a liaison between his medical staff and Egality executives. Dr. Rodriguez also serves to enforce good clinical practice among staff and reviews clinical guidelines on behalf of Egality Sciences
For the past 40 years, Dr. Rodriguez has served as a beacon of patient advocacy in the great state of Texas and now brings his vast experience to protect all patients served by Egality Sciences.
Prior to his current position, Dr. Rodriguez served as a Primary Care Physician with WellMed Medical Group in San Antonio, Texas and in private practice in Corpus Christi, Texas since 1979.
Dr. Rodriguez has served multiple patient protection capacities to include as President of The American College of Physicians, Texas Chapter, Chairman of the Professional Review Committee and Ethics Committee for Christus Spohn Hospital and Chairman of the Board of Censors for the Nueces Country Medical Society.
Dr. Rodriguez is a Fellow with American College of Physicians and Board Certified with the American Board of Internal Medicine. He currently lives and practices medicine in San Antonio, Texas.