MI-VAD LEADERSHIP
Management & Board Of Directors, Technical Advisory Board,
Strategic Advisory Board
Management & Board of Directors
Chief Executive Officer and Board Member
Sudhir Kushwaha MD
Dr. Kushwaha serves as the Medical Director of Cardiac Transplant and Director of The Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Kushwaha is a world-renowned specialist in the field of circulatory failure, cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support with over 25 years experience. He has been involved in this field since the development of the first mechanical circulatory devices and therefore has a depth of knowledge and experience, which is applied directly to patient care…..
Board Member & Non-Executive Chairman
Paul E. Heney
Mr. Heney is a senior legal and corporate development executive with 30 years of experience and success as a corporate lawyer, merchant banker and business development entrepreneur spanning many industries. He has negotiated, structured and executed countless sophisticated international M&A, corporate finance and corporate/commercial/intellectual property transactions…..
Board Member
Andrew Roberts
Mr. Roberts was a partner in private practice with a London law firm before working in-house senior legal roles within in the oil and gas industry. He has substantial international experience having been based, at various points in his career, in London, Qatar, Dubai, Malaysia and Geneva…..
Chief Financial Officer
Kenneth Howling
Mr. Howling has over 25 years of healthcare industry experience in senior financial positions, including 11 years with Valeant Pharmaceuticals (formerly Biovail Corporation) as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Finance and Corporate Affairs; 5 years as Chief Financial Officer of Acerus Pharmaceuticals; and 5 years as Chief Financial Officer with Pharma Patch PLC…..
Technical Advisory Board
Technical Advisory Board Chairman
James F. Antaki Ph.D
Dr. Antaki currently serves as the Lowell and Susan McAdam Professor of Heart Assist Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He has been involved in artificial heart research since the first implantation of the Jarvik-7 in Pittsburgh in 1985. He is a widely published author, and an award winning engineer specializing in the design and deployment of blood-wetted medical devices. He is recognized by his peers as a pioneer in biomedically engineered cardiac assist devices…..
Technical Advisory Board Member
Lyle D. Joyce MD PhD
Dr. Joyce has been practicing in the field of cardiothoracic surgery for more than 40 years, focusing on heart transplantation and the surgical treatment of heart failure. He is world-renowned in the field of cardiothoracic surgery having been on the team that implanted the first permanent artificial heart in a man, and was the first surgeon ever to use a total artificial heart in a woman…..
Technical Advisory Board Member
Zain Khalpey MD PhD
Dr. Khalpey is Associate Professor of Surgery, Physiological Sciences & Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona in Tucson and also serves as the Surgical Director, Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program…..
Technical Advisory Board Member
Feras Bader MD
Dr. Bader is a Staff Physician in the Heart & Vascular Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He previously served as Medical Director of the Heart Failure Program and Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship Program at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was also Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Utah, specializing in the field of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation…..
Strategic Advisory Board
Strategic Advisory Board Member
Sean Lavin MD
Dr. Lavin is the CEO of Alpha Lavin Advisors, LLC an advisory firm founded in 2020 to help early-stage healthcare companies raise capital. He has held various roles, and has been employed mostly as a senior analyst covering medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health at BTIG, Lazard Capital Markets, and Oppenheimer and Company from 2006 until the end of 2019…
Strategic Advisory Board Member
Viq Pervaaz
Mr Pervaaz is a Partner with Ernst & Young’s People Advisory group. He is responsible for the Americas Health Sciences strategy and portfolio from a human capital perspective. He has spent a significant part of his career in C-suite leadership capacities in the Pharmaceutical/Consumer Products industry. This has included leadership positions in Product Development/R&D, Innovation, M&A, Global Operations, Marketing, Corporate Affairs, Public Relations, and Organizational Effectiveness…
Strategic Advisory Board Member
D. Bruce Macdonald
Mr. Macdonald has an extensive background in the financial services industry and brings a deep level of expertise and knowledge in finance, as well as corporate governance. His corporate leadership experience includes holding the title of Chief Operating Officer for RBC Capital Markets, a member of the RBC Capital Markets Operating Committee and also served as Executive Vice President of RBC and President of RBC Dominion Securities from 2005 to 2015…
Strategic Advisory Board Member
CHRIS JENSEN
Chris loves the energy, excitement, fun and “yes we can” spirit of start up companies. When the start up phase morphs into rapid growth, commercialisation and starting to change the world then the fun increases. This has translated in founding several high growth Technology companies including Left Technologies (Left.io), RightMesh AG (RightMesh.io) and Left Travel (Left Travel.com)…
