Leadership

Karim is a senior healthcare leader with over 25 years of experience in medical technology and an exceptional track record of driving innovation, growth, and profitability. Karim has significant experience in Digital Health, high-tech systems, AI and Cloud platforms, and global healthcare markets. Karim is also Chairman of the Board for Med Tech Acquisition Corp. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer at iRhythm Technologies, a leading digital health company, where he helped scale the company, doubling revenues to $210M while successfully launching new AI products and partnerships.

Prior to iRhythm, Karim was with General Electric for 22 years. Most recently as President & CEO of the $9B GE Healthcare Imaging business where he drove a step change in growth, profitability, and innovation. He was Chief Marketing Officer for GE Healthcare division where he was instrumental in building a growth strategy for the $20B medical technology global business. Karim also successfully led multiple GE Healthcare businesses across the globe, including President and CEO of GE Healthcare Growth Markets and President & CEO of GE Healthcare Korea. He started in GE Healthcare leading global business development and M&A for GE Healthcare Systems where he led multiple acquisitions and investments. Prior to joining GE, Karim started his career in brand management at Proctor & Gamble.

Amit is a senior healthcare and technology leader, heralded for driving transformative AI strategy across technology platforms for medical imaging and technology giants.

Most recently, Amit was a GE Officer and Chief Digital Officer for GE Healthcare, responsible for leading the company’s digital and AI strategy. Amit oversaw GE Healthcare’s complete digital portfolio, including Enterprise Imaging solutions, Clinical Command Centers and consulting solutions. With his global digital team, he enabled GE’s vision for precision health by creating the industry-leading Edison platform and its cloud, edge, device software infrastructure, data strategy, SaaS enablement, artificial intelligence, and analytics capabilities.

Prior to GE, Amit was with Cisco Systems, where he was the India Site Leader and Senior Vice President of Engineering for the Core Software Group, leading product development activities across routing, switching and wireless areas. Prior to working at Cisco Systems, Amit held leadership roles at Motorola, Tata Elxsi, Silicon Automation Systems and C-DOT.

As the Chief Innovation and Technology Officer at RapidAI, Amit oversees the R&D, Engineering and Technology organizations, driving the advancement of the RapidAI comprehensive AI and Workflow Platform for neurovascular and vascular disease care.

Amit has a master’s degree in electronics and communication from the Indian Institute of Science.

David Stoffel, M.D., has spent more than 20 years developing and commercializing innovative technologies and services in the medical device industry. 

David has an extensive track record of success in scaling healthcare businesses. Notably, he led marketing and corporate development at Intuitive Surgical, contributing significantly to establishing the Da Vinci surgical robotic system as a new surgical standard of care. He also helped launch and lead the Mobile Cardiac Telemetry business at iRhythm Technologies, one of the fastest growing digital health companies and was Chief Business Officer at Ceribell, maker of an innovative point-of-care EEG solution. 

Earlier in his career, David was a partner at a healthcare venture capital firm, where he invested in and helped build early-stage companies. He started his career in investment banking focused on corporate finance. 

At RapidAI, David leads a variety of commercial and operational teams including Clinical Affairs, Education, Marketing, Clinical Success, Corporate Development and Finance.  

David has a BA in Economics from Stanford University and received an MD and MBA from the University of Chicago.

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.

Brian Rudd has spent more than 20 years leading high-performance commercial teams and building market-leading businesses across healthcare and technology.

Brian has a proven track record of success in driving go-to-market strategy, scaling national sales teams, and establishing trusted brands in highly complex industries. He held senior leadership roles at Microsoft, Nuance, and Cardinal Health—where he was instrumental in delivering value-based solutions across provider networks, health systems, and enterprise customers. At each stop, he’s built and led teams known for their resilience, results, and impact.

Earlier in his career, Brian helped drive commercial transformation in both high-growth and Fortune 100 organizations, with deep experience across enterprise software, AI, diagnostics, and clinical workflow optimization.

At RapidAI, Brian Rudd leads all commercial functions, including Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Market Strategy. He is focused on expanding the company’s reach and accelerating adoption of its AI-driven platform across the most critical and time-sensitive areas of care.

With over 25 years’ experience in People Operations in high-tech, high-growth industries, Betsy strives to design experiences and programs to inspire individuals, teams, and organizations to reach their full potential. Betsy is a champion of company culture that fosters respect, transparency, collaboration, and innovation.

Betsy started her HR career at Fidelity Investments and has lead HR teams at high tech growth companies in Telecom, SaaS, and Healthcare Technology. Betsy has led global HR Teams in India, Europe, and the UK.

Betsy has a Psychology degree from Rutgers University.

For over 20 years, Toby has held held roles of increasing responsibility across the med tech industry. During his time in Covidien and Medtronic he had lead market development and regional groups across Europe to drive product adoption and therapy adoption delivering double digit revenue growth consistently. Through his tenure in the neurovascular business he has significant knowhow for delivering change management through building teams fit for purpose and recruiting and developing high-calibre individuals. For several years, Toby has been integral in driving the inception of stroke AI solutions across Europe and now as the VP for EMEA, Toby leads the sales team to deliver consistent growth across our extensive installations and new product launches.

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.  

Juan is known for his innate ability to impact and drive corporate culture. He has been a leader on the rise in medical technology for over 12 years. Juan is known for his strong people development skills, driving high growth, and building sales processes that create organizational impact.

Before joining RapidAI, Juan spent six-plus years at iRhythm Technologies, Inc., a digital health company. He helped iRhythm emerge from Pre-IPO to a Medium Cap company. During Juan’s time at iRhythm, revenue grew from $39 million to $322 million. While at iRhythm, Juan implemented and Co-Chaired the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steering Committee. Juan led and facilitated training on Unconscious Bias for Senior Leadership. He also led thoughtful discussions with Physician thought leaders on providing health equity and tackling health disparities in patient care.

Before joining iRhythm, Juan worked at Zoll Medical Corporation, Arthrex, and Linvatec.

Juan graduated from the University of Oregon where he was a multi-year starting fullback.