Our Team

Ali Tavallaei, PhD, PEng

President, Co-founder & Director

Canada Research Chair in Systems and Devices for Cardiovascular Interventions
Alumni of Medical Innovation Fellowship (Minnesota/Western)
Successful past startup and product commercialization experience
Serial inventor/entrepreneur

Andrew Dueck , MD

Officer, Co-founder, Director

Head of Vascular Surgery at Sunnybrook Hospital
Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto
Extensive experience in evaluation of new percutaneous or endovascular devices or therapeutics

James Zhou, MSc

Co-founder, Engineering Lead

Waterloo Mechanical Eng. Graduate
Former R&D Engineer within the aortic division at Medtronic
More than 7 years of medical device R&D experience within cardiovascular domain

Directors & Advisors

Graham Wright, PhD

Co-founder, Director, & Scientific Advisor

Canada Research Chair In Imaging for Cardiovascular Therapeutics (Tier I)
Senior Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute
Professor at Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto.

Trisha Roy, MD, PhD

Co-founder, Director, & Clinical Advisor

Vascular Surgeon and Scientist at Houston Methodist (Texas)
Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University
Pioneer in characterization of peripheral artery disease and assessment of endovascular devices

Daniel Hawkins

Business Advisor

Serial MedTech entrepreneur
Co-founder & CEO of some of the most prominent & successful companies in the MedTech space such as Shockwave Medical and Calibra Medical.
Inventor of more than 140 patents
MBA from Stanford and BS in Economics