Our team has deep expertise across clinical and imaging disciplines, paradigm-shifting technology, and management/investor experience. Together, with our exceptional staff, we are now redefining how technology and medicine can work together to solve neurovascular disorders in ways never before possible.
Greg has been instrumental in the development of the Rapid platform. Since 1992, he has served as the director and co-founder of the Stanford Stroke Center. His primary research focus is the diagnosis, management, and prevention of ischemic stroke. Working with his team, he has used advanced imaging technology to expand the treatment window for ischemic stroke and has been the principal investigator of all three DEFUSE studies. These NIH-funded research projects clarified the evolution of brain ischemia and led to extending the treatment window for stroke to 24 hours in 2018.
He is also the Coyote Foundation Professor of Neurology and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery at Stanford University Medical Center. A prolific and distinguished researcher, Greg has authored 450+ articles on cerebrovascular disease topics in peer-reviewed journals and serves as the Chairman of the Stroke Treatment Academic Industry Roundtable (STAIR).
A recipient of the American Heart Association’s David G. Sherman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Stroke Research in 2011, he received his MD from the University of California San Diego and completed his residency and stroke fellowship at Stanford University.
Roland was instrumental in helping develop early engineering/regulatory team members at RapidAI, and the business plan for core-lab services for two large industry-sponsored trials. A serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience developing academic/commercial software, he is Co-Director of the Stanford 3D Lab. Roland has published 240 peer-reviewed articles, holds 28 patents, and authored the seminal stroke and perfusion imaging textbook.
Since 2017, he has been Professor of Radiology and Director of Research Excellence in Neuroimaging at the University of Melbourne, and Director of Quantitative Neuroimaging at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia. From 2001 to 2017, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Radiology (and, by courtesy, Neurology and the Neurosciences) at Stanford University.
He is also a Distinguished Investigator of the American Academy of Radiology Research, and a Senior Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). He holds a master's and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Technische Universität Graz, an MBA from Deakin University, and a professorship degree in medical physics and biophysics from Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz.
Mark has more than 40 years of experience in investment management as well as extensive experience with leading global financial services firms, and co-founded the Stanford Stroke Advisory Board. He is managing director of Brandin & Associates, an investment management firm focused on equity and option growth strategies for high net worth clients. In addition to his board position at RapidAI, he is also a Limited Partner of Jana Partners, Lithium Technologies Inc., Life 360, Vasostitch, Niveus Medical Inc., Seraph Group, Simpson Interventions Inc., and A to Z Sports. His career has included executive vice president positions at Quick and Reilly, Inc., Charles Schwab & Co., Crocker National Bank, and positions at Shearson Lehman Hutton and First National Bank of Chicago.
Mark holds a degree in strategic marketing from Harvard University Graduate School of Business, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a BA from Stanford University.
John has more than 20 years of operational, financial, and technical experience, including leadership positions at several global technology companies. He has been a General Partner at TCV, one of the largest growth equity firms, since 2002. Before joining TCV, he served as one of four CEOs in the Office of the Chairman at Lucent Technologies, President and CEO of International Network Services (acquired by Lucent), and Vice President and General Manager at Unisys Corporation. John began his business career after serving as a captain in the United States Army. In addition to his board position at RapidAI, he is on the board of directors of OneSource Virtual.
He holds a BS degree in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MS degree in business policy from Columbia University.
Dr. Hadi Saleh is the CEO of the CeramTec Group and President for the Medical Segment. Prior to joining CeramTec in 2015 he was a Senior Vice President of Biomet Inc. and President of Biomet International where he was responsible for all Biomet product lines worldwide outside of the US and Europe. In addition, he played a leading role in the Zimmer Holdings acquisition of Biomet Inc. Since 2001 Dr. Saleh has held a number of positions at Biomet, first at Biomet Germany, then Biomet Europe and finally at Headquarters of Biomet Inc. in Warsaw, IN in the United States. Prior to this he studied and earned his doctorate at the universities in Frankfurt am Main and Mainz, worked as an orthopedic surgeon at St. Josef’s Hospital in Wiesbaden and at the University Clinic in Heidelberg and was a Senior Consultant at GAIA in Hamburg.
Jack has more than 35 years of experience across the pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, software, and technology industries. He has broad leadership experience in public and venture-based companies, and has led and advised companies through fast growth, international expansion, and complex capital-market transactions and restructurings. Prior to joining RapidAI, he held leadership positions at NovaBay Pharmaceuticals (NYSE), Attainia Inc., Dilithium Networks, infoUSA (NASDAQ), and Integrated Biosystems Inc. Jack has also held corporate finance positions at Matrix International and began his career at KPMG Peat Marwick.
He holds a BS in accounting and finance from California State University at Chico and is a Certified Public Accountant
With 25+ years of experience in clinical evaluation and market introduction of surgical and minimally invasive devices, Marc has been instrumental in bringing new technologies to market in the European Union (EU) for surgical procedures, cardiology, surgery, urology, and interventional neuroradiology. Prior to joining RapidAI, he served as an independent consultant for a number of U.S. based medical device companies including Medina Medical, NFocus Neuromedical, and Concentric Medical—providing key support and leadership for clinical evaluation of new technologies and commercial activities in the EU. Prior to that, he worked in a number of sales, marketing, technical support, and product management positions in biomedical companies based in Belgium and The Netherlands including Tyco Healthcare (now Medtronic), The Surgical Company, and Auto Suture (US Surgical).
He holds a master’s degree in movement science from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium.
Krates has 20+ years of experience building and managing high-performing global engineering teams and driving development processes focused on delivery. Before his position at RapidAI, he led the re-platforming of the entire software system at Invoice2go and increased the rate of delivery by 400%. Previously, he co-founded and was Chief Technology Officer at CliniCast, later acquired by Elekta. CliniCast was an enterprise healthcare software startup where he built a robust solution integrating machine-learning outcomes into everyday workflow and decision-making of cancer care providers.
With a proven track record of building reliable, highly available, multi-tenant, distributed systems, his career includes 12 years in enterprise software engineering at Wily Technologies (acquired by CA) and Andromedia (acquired by Macromedia).
He holds a BS in computer science from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
Diane brings more than 25 years of experience as a technology marketing leader to RapidAI. Prior to joining RapidAI, she was the Vice President of Marketing at Serviceaide—an AI-based virtual agent company—and Teradici, a cloud-based visualization company. In both roles, Diane was responsible for all aspects of marketing from event and sales enablement to public relations, demand generation, digital marketing, analyst relations, branding, and more. Earlier Diane had a long tenure with Cisco where she held a variety of senior corporate and international marketing roles, including building a world-class strategic communications organization from the ground up. While at Cisco, she also spearheaded the development and messaging strategy for a service brand and renamed the entire services portfolio. Before that, she held key international marketing communications positions at Sun Microsystems.
Diane has a degree in engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
Jim has 40+ years of experience and deep expertise bringing advanced technologies to market, providing leadership across the organization while engaging and partnering with regulators worldwide. Jim’s exposure as a leader in the medical device consulting industry allows him to leverage best practices from 50+ companies to accelerate regulatory approvals worldwide and maintain compliance with QMS regulations. Jim has worked in highly controlled regulatory environments to help deliver lung cancer markers for CeMines, Inc., an IVD company; led development of personalization technologies at Intel Architecture Labs; and integrated worldwide product engineering teams at Gambro. Additionally, his engineering background in high-speed signal processing for space and military applications allows for a keen understanding of the engineering process and its intersection with regulatory.
Jim also teaches and mentors university students and professionals in design controls, risk management, and V&V strategies worldwide, and holds patents related to usability, safety, and predictive maintenance concepts for medical devices.
He earned an MBA from Colorado State University and a BS in computer science from Radford University. Jim is a veteran of the U.S. Navy.
A multi-disciplinary leader, Alex has more than 18 years of experience in software and healthcare. He is a proven leader focusing on generating new business and maximizing ROI. Before joining RapidAI, he held clinical, software, consulting, and leadership positions across pharmaceutical, life sciences, software, and technology industries including Baxter, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte Consulting, Union Bank, Novartis, and Oracle. In his previous role, he managed a $20M+ company-wide program, spanning 12 key initiatives that delivered $30M+ in annual revenue and cost savings.
Alex holds a BA in economics, graduating with honors from the University of California, Irvine.
Haig has more than 16 years of experience leading technology services, support, and customer success teams and brings significant experience in life sciences and healthcare. He has also held leadership and operational management positions focused on the delivery of cloud-based services for global companies in multiple industry verticals. Prior to joining RapidAI, he worked at Data Intensity, Quintiles, and Phase Forward (acquired by Oracle). Before Oracle, he spent several years at Tufts Health Plan and Deloitte Consulting in their technology practice.
Haig earned both an MBA and a BS in entrepreneurial studies from Babson College
Matus has more than 20 years of experience in clinical, industrial, and academic fields, including expertise in medical software development, 2D- and 3D-image processing algorithms, and MRI and CT imaging. For nearly 15 years, he has been working on developing the Rapid® platform with team members, most recently serving as vice president of research and development at RapidAI. He led the development of the software for advanced brain imaging, working with a team of engineers on the development of algorithms, implementation and testing, customer installations, trial data collection, and more. During his post-doctoral work at Stanford, he worked with Greg Albers and Roland Bammer — who later co-founded what became RapidAI – on a large multi-center trial, DEFUSE2.
He completed post-doctoral study and research at Stanford University School of Medicine, holds a PhD in medical image processing from Vienna Technical University / Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria, and an M.Sc. from Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Rachel is a seasoned strategic product leader with a decade of experience leading product development teams at technology software companies in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market and healthcare industries. Prior to joining RapidAI, she worked at Invoice2go, building solutions to address the day-to-day problems of micro-businesses and getting her MBA at Stanford. Before her MBA, she worked at Google as the global strategy leader for Google Analytics, driving the global enterprise sales team and product and engineering teams to build, commercialize, and launch features used by millions of businesses every day. Prior to joining the Google Analytics team, she worked in sales as an account executive and has also served on the Alumni Association Executive Board at the London School of Economics.
Rachel has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, a BA in economics and business from Kalamazoo College, and completed the general course at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Amani has over 14 years of strategic business experience driving growth through Mergers & Acquisitions, specifically in healthcare industries identifying and evaluating potential acquisition and investment opportunities as well as industry trends. Prior to joining RapidAI, Amani worked at Stryker Corporation driving corporate strategy and leading transactions through integration. Prior to Stryker, she worked as an attorney at two large international law firms in New York (Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Baker & McKenzie), focusing on capital markets, public company support and M&A transactions.
Amani earned her JD from University of Chicago Law School and a BA in Psychology and Business from Southwestern University.
