An Experienced Group of Neurologists, Radiologists, Technologists and Serial Entrepreneurs.

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.

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.

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.

Jim is a senior commercial leader in the medical device industry with over 20 years in leadership positions at Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, GE and most recently Terumo Aortic where he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for North America.  During his tenure with Terumo Aortic, the US division grew more than 10x in revenue through key growth and marketing strategies, new sales programs, and growth-based compensation plans. Throughout his time at Terumo, his responsibilities included Sales, Marketing, Training, Commercial Operations, National Accounts, Customer Service, Contracting, Business Development, as well as pricing strategies and building a strong commercial leadership team.

Prior to Terumo Aortic, Jim was with Abbott Vascular for 7 years including time as Area Vice President of Sales and US Director of Strategy and Execution. In these positions, Jim created a new strategy and channel for the division that resulted in over $500 million of sales growth in the US while transforming the division culture and reducing turnover significantly during his tenure.

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.

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.

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.  

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.