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

Paul Magnin, PhD

Business Advisor

  • Serial MedTech entrepreneur
  • Former President & CEO of LightLab Imaging and Novelis that focused on solutions for crossing chronic total occlusions and was sold to Volcano Co.
  • Director and advisor to more than 10 medical device startups