PYRAMES - Key Persons
Alan Walendowski is a Software Engineer for PyrAmes with over 30 years of technical leadership in software, product, and technology development. He has extensive experience developing mobile and server-side applications, and spent 10 years at Palo Alto Research Center where his projects included new networking protocols, intelligent mobile recommender systems, and mobile applications for DARPA's Transformative Apps program.
He holds a BS in Computer Science from Boston University and has over 20 issued or pending patents.
Job Titles:
- Product Manager
- Product Manager With
Art Muir is a Product Manager with PyrAmes. Art has over 30 years experience in product engineering, new product introduction experience, and new business development. He has been responsible for the development and build of the electronics for PyrAmes as well as for regulatory and quality activities.
He holds BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering from the University of California, Davis, as well as an MBA from the Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He has 10 issued or pending patents.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Research and Development
Dr. Goldstein is the Vice President, Research and Development, Hematology at CSL Behring. He has held leadership roles at several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies including Baxter, Shire, Novo Nordisk, and Ikaria. He was formerly the Chief of Pediatric Critical Care at Oregon Health & Science University where his research focused on pediatric vital sign monitoring.
Dave Richardson brings to PyrAmes over 40 years of professional Electrical Engineering, hardware and firmware development experience. Dave has worked on many projects in the electric energy industry and recently medical devices in the bioelectronics field. Dave has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University and is a Registered Professional Engineer in California.
Job Titles:
- Scientist
- Co - Founder Cerebellum Capital
Dr. Andre is a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He is an expert in machine learning and is co-founder of Cerebellum Capital. He previously led the machine learning team at BodyMedia, a pioneer in wearable devices which was acquired by Jawbone in April 2013 for more than $100 million.
Job Titles:
- Software Architect
- Technologist
Doug Halperin is an accomplished technologist with wide-ranging experience architecting and implementing data, app and enterprise solutions. Among other roles, Doug led West Coast operations and projects for a medical device engineering firm. Holding a master's degree in computer science from Brown, he teaches in the computer science department at the University of San Francisco.
Job Titles:
- SVP
- SVP / GM Healthcare, PhysIQ
Gary Manning is the SVP/GM Healthcare at PhysIQ. Gary has spent his career in the global medical device / solution arena starting as a clinical engineer and evolving to hold leadership positions at Datascope, Sotera Wireless, and Gaido Health before joining PhysIQ. He has experience in launching and commercializing innovative medical solutions in cardiac life-support, patient monitoring, wearable sensors, and digital health.
Job Titles:
- Founder & Managing Director, Keytone Ventures
Joe Zhou is one of the most experienced VCs in China, starting in 1999 with Softbank China Venture Capital. He was a Founding Managing Partner at KPCB China and founded Keytone Ventures in 2008.
Joe is passionate about identifying market opportunities in technology, mobile internet, healthcare IT and devices. He holds a MSEE from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a BSEE from Beijing University of Technology.
Junjun Liu is a Senior Data Scientist for PyrAmes with more than 10 years of extensive experience in statistical analysis, model development, numerical simulations, comparative planetary climatology, geophysical fluid dynamics, and magneto-hydrodynamics. Her extensive background in time-series analysis of large and complex data sets plays an important role in our product development.
Previously she was a research scientist at the Space Science Institute, and before that at California Institute of Technology, where she led many research studies and discoveries. Junjun received a BS in Astronomy and an MS in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from Peking University and a PhD in Planetary Sciences with a minor in Applied and Computational Mathematics from CalTech. She has 1 pending patent.
Job Titles:
- MedTech Industry Executive
- Vice President, Partnership Dev
Keith Drake is an accomplished MedTech industry executive with commercialization expertise in sales, marketing, business partnerships, client relationships, and product development. Keith's professional experience includes managing the development, promotion, and delivery of health technology (medical devices, information system interoperability, data analytics) for Galen Data, Inc., Quest Diagnostics, and Medical Automation Systems (now Abbott Labs). He received his engineering degrees from the University of Virginia and served as an active duty USAF officer in the research labs at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
Job Titles:
- Medical Director, Cardiovascular Services, Beaumont Hospital West
Dr. Brodsky is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Brodsky is the Medical Director of Cardiovascular Services at the Beaumont Hospital West Bloomfield satellite location and has a private cardiology practice.
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- Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Nationwide Children 's Hospital
Dr. Corridore is Attending Anesthesiologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Heart Center as well as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. His clinical and research interests focus on congenital heart disease and its anesthetic implications.
Job Titles:
- Chief Revenue Officer, UpHealth Inc
- Healthcare Technology Leader, Advisor and Board Member
Michael Rolla is a healthcare technology leader, advisor and board member. Currently the Chief Revenue Officer at UpHealth Inc., he has held multiple leadership roles at Becton Dickinson by way of C.R. Bard and Teladoc by way of Livongo. Michael has led commercial, marketing and clinical operations teams both domestically and internationally. He has experience in delivering med-tech, SaaS products and services to Health plans, Health systems/providers and employers. Michael received his BS from Penn State University and his MBA from Emory University. He remains active in several companies and philanthropies focused on improving the delivery of care.
Job Titles:
- Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Technology
- Stanford University Professor Emeritus, Medicine & Engineering
Dr. Peter Fitzgerald is the Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Technology and Director of the Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory (CCAL) at Stanford University Medical School and Emeritus Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Engineering (by courtesy) at Stanford. He has led or participated in over 175 clinical trials and published over 550 manuscripts/chapters.
Peter has been principal/founder of 24 medical device companies, 18 of which have gone public or transitioned to large healthcare/consumer companies. He serves on several boards of directors, advised dozens of medical device startups as well as multinational healthcare companies in the design and development of new diagnostic and therapeutic cardiovascular devices. Peter also co-founded LVP Capital and TriVentures, providing funding to medical device, biotechnology, and digital health start-ups.
Job Titles:
- Executive Chairman of the Board
Peter Noymer serves as Executive Chairman of the Board for PyrAmes and brings more than twenty years of experience developing novel pharmaceutical and medical device products from concept through to market.
Previously, Peter was CEO of Kedalion Therapeutics, COO of SteadyMed Therapeutics (acquired by United Therapeutics), and VP of Product R&D for Alexza Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Grupo Ferrer). He has MS and PhD degrees from MIT in Mechanical Engineering and a BSE from Princeton in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Job Titles:
- Founder & Managing Director, GSR Ventures
Richard Lim co-founded GSR Ventures in 2004 and made it one of the premier VC funds in the world, investing in early-stage technology companies operating in the US, China, and SE Asia. GSR Ventures focuses on companies that apply AI to drive transformation in Healthcare, Enterprise and Consumer sectors.
Richard holds an MBA from Stanford and an MBBS in Medicine & Surgery from the National University of Singapore.
Thomas Roxlo is a Senior Data Scientist for PyrAmes, applying neural networks to the analysis of pulse waveform data for the company's products since 2015. Thomas has an SB in Physics from MIT and a PhD in Physics from Harvard University. He has 1 pending patent.
Job Titles:
- Founding Director of the Stanford Hypertension Center and Is Board
- Founding Director, the Stanford Hypertension Center
Dr. Bhalla is the founding director of the Stanford Hypertension Center and is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Hypertension. Here in the heart of Silicon Valley, he also has an interest in developing novel technologies for non-invasive measurement of blood pressure.
Weyland Leong is a Senior Product Engineer for PyrAmes, with over 15 years experience across all stages of product development from design, prototyping, validation, manufacturing, and quality testing, including bringing medical devices to market through ISO and FDA design controls.
Weyland worked with Will and Xina at Artificial Muscle prior to joining PyrAmes. He has also held positions in Product Development, R&D, Process Development, and Tooling & Automation for a wide range of companies developing products including carburetors, catheters, and surgical clamps. Weyland has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, and has 3 pending patents.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Operations
- VP of Operations
Will Sutherland is VP of Operations for PyrAmes, and brings to the company more than 35 years of managing new product introductions and developing and managing partnerships throughout the supply chain. Prior to PyrAmes, Will was Senior VP of Manufacturing Operations for Amber Kinetics, Inc., working on renewable energy solutions where he was responsible for supply chain management and opening their manufacturing facility.
Earlier, Will was VP of Operations and held other senior leadership positions at Artificial Muscle (acquired by Bayer MaterialScience and Parker Hannifin), Wolfe Engineering, and Matheson Gas. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California (Berkeley) and 2 issued or pending US patents.
Xina Quan is Co-founder and CEO of PyrAmes and has been developing PyrAmes' technology with Stanford Professor Zhenan Bao since 2015. Prior to starting PyrAmes, Xina led the R&D efforts at Artificial Muscle Inc., a venture-backed start-up spun out of SRI, which resulted in the first commercial application of electroactive polymers. She played a critical role in the acquisition of AMI by Bayer MaterialScience in 2010 and by Parker Hannifin in 2014. Before joining AMI, Xina was the Vice President of R&D at Cambrios, a venture-backed start-up where she led the efforts to pioneer the use of silver nanowires in transparent conductive inks. At Lumileds Lighting, a joint venture of Philips and Agilent Technologies, she managed the product development and release of novel high-power white LED products which are now used ubiquitously as cell-phone camera flash chips. The first start-up Xina worked with was DigiLens where she led the technical development of materials and processes for switchable holographic gratings. She was responsible for DigiLens' acquisition by SBGLabs.
Before moving to start-ups, Xina was a Director at AT&T Bell Laboratories where she led the Polymer & Chemical Engineering Departments. She has SB and SM degrees from MIT and a PhD from Princeton, all in Chemical Engineering, is a registered patent agent with the USPTO, and has more than 30 issued or pending US patents.
Zhenan Bao is a co-founder of PyrAmes and serves as an Advisor and on the Board of Directors. A world-renowned researcher in electronics and wearables, she is currently the K.K. Lee Professor in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Inventors, founded and is faculty director of the Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative, and is an affiliated faculty member of the Precourt Institute, Woods Institute, ChEM-H and Bio-X.