Meet the Co-Founders
Mimi grew up in Serbia where she also began playing table tennis when she was five years old under the watchful eye of her father Jon Bosika, who eventually became the US Olympic table tennis coach. Mimi moved to the United States when she was 11 years old and took on the role of managing her father’s table tennis business partly due to his language barrier. She not only learned the necessary factors required to grow into an elite athlete, but also how to organize and execute on her father’s business commitments. Eventually, it was natural for her to take on an organizational role at the Olympic Training Center where Mimi’s father became a coach and where a constant flow of athletes required an impeccable operation to help them thrive. This is where she met Eric, who came to train with her dad.
Although Mimi had informal business experience at a young age with her father’s business and through most of her life, Mimi pursued and, in 2008, completed her Masters in Business (MBA) in Economics and Entrepreneurship at University of Chicago Booth School of Business in Chicago, Illinois.
After graduating with her MBA, Mimi gained business experience including marketing and operations management. Eventually, Mimi’s most impactful experience that would prepare her for Delos Therapy was having a sales development role at the exclusive David Barton Gym in Chicago where she had built an extensive network in health and fitness.
As a professional table tennis athlete in the late 1990s, Eric was living at the Olympic Table Tennis Center in Davison, Michigan. There, he met his coach’s daughter Mimi, who at an early age took on a number of operational and leadership roles for her father’s coaching business. Having grown up around Delos Therapy after his father developed it in the 1980s, Eric began to ponder the future of Delos Therapy and how to continue his father’s work and success. One of Eric’s goals was to gain scientific credibility and understanding, but he also realized that an important component of the future of Delos Therapy was a focus on effective business development and operations. Eric joked with Mimi about the potential of working with her down the road, after each of them completed their respective university studies in medicine and business. They made plans to reconnect at some point in the future.
Eric completed his master’s degree in biomedical science researching pain and inflammatory conditions, and eventually furthered his training in medical school. During his third year of medical school, he was doing 20 -30 hours of Delos Therapy each week, acquiring patients at various medical rotations who were not improving with conventional treatment. At this point, the high demand for Delos Therapy led Eric to begin pursuing the revival of an actual stand-alone practice.
As it turned out, both Eric and Mimi followed through on their business conversation from years before. In 2012, Eric and Mimi re-connected, wrote a business plan, and found a private investor who enabled them to begin operations that same year. Thanks to Mimi’s relationship with David Barton, the celebrity trainer from New York, and as a result of his interest in what Delos Therapy had to offer, Mimi was able to secure a space for Delos Therapy within David Barton Gym.
This was the beginning of Delos Therapy’s work with Chicago’s fitness community and the company continued to grow from there, opening three more locations in the first five years and generating interest for Delos Therapy among professional athletes, business professionals and many others.