Top 100 CEO: Entrepreneur Life takes international turn for E-Mist CEO

George Robertson was getting bored in retirement.

After starting over 20 businesses in the restaurant, retail and health care fields, the former president and CEO of medical equipment company National HME planned to settle down and spend time with family. But soon, his restlessness prompted him to join the angel investor group Cowtown Angels in 2013.

The group soon asked Robertson to become the CEO of E-Mist Innovations, and in 2014 he took over the business. The company’s disinfecting product, the Touch Point Healthy Infection Control System, would later be used to spray Ebola patient Nina Pham’s apartment in 2014. In July 2015, the company announced that it would partner with the African nation of Guinea in a $9 million project to fight Ebola.