Board of Directors

Meet the Board

  • Roger Susi

    FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, AND CEO

    Mr. Susi is the founder of the Company and has served as a member of the Board since inception. Mr. Susi also served as Chief Executive Officer and President from inception until August 2019, when he took the role of Chief Technology Officer. In May 2020, Mr. Susi resumed his duties as Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company. He has over 25 years of management experience in the medical device industry, including as a founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Invivo Research Inc., a medical device company and the predecessor to Invivo Corporation, which established MRI–safe patient monitoring.

    Mr. Susi served as a director of Invivo Corporation from 1998 through 2000 and as President of Invivo Research Inc. from 1979 through 1998. Mr. Susi is a biomedical engineer and received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1977.

  • Monty Allen

    DIRECTOR

    Mr. Allen has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2014. Mr. Allen served as Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer of LENSAR, Inc., a medical device business from 2005 through 2011 and continued to serve LENSAR in other capacities until 2016. From 2011 to present, Mr. Allen has served several other businesses as a consultant. Mr. Allen has more than 40 years of accounting and finance experience including service as Chief Financial Officer of three publicly-held companies in biotech, medical and optical technologies.

    Mr. Allen is a licensed CPA in Florida. Mr. Allen received a B.S. in Accounting and International Business from Florida State University in 1974 and an M.B.A. in General Management from Harvard University in 1978.

  • James Hawkins

    DIRECTOR

    Mr. Hawkins previously served on our Board of Directors from 2013 to 2016 and was elected again to serve on our Board of Directors in 2019. From 2004 to 2018, Mr. Hawkins was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Natus Medical, Inc., a leading manufacturer of medical devices and software and a service provider for the newborn care, neurology, sleep, hearing and balance markets. Currently he serves as a director of OSI Systems, Inc.

    Prior to Natus, Mr. Hawkins was President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of Invivo Corporation, a provider of MRI-safe patient monitoring and the Chief Financial Officer of Sensor Control Corporation.

    He earned his undergraduate degree in Business Commerce from Santa Clara University and holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from San Francisco State University.

  • Joe Kiani

    DIRECTOR

    Joe Kiani joined our Board of Directors in September 2025, bringing extensive expertise as a medical technology innovator and entrepreneur. Mr. Kiani is the founder of Masimo Corporation, where he served as Chairman and CEO from 1989 to 2024, transforming the company into a global leader in non-invasive patient monitoring technologies, particularly pulse oximetry. Under his leadership, Masimo’s Signal Extraction Technology (SET®) became a standard in healthcare, monitoring over 200 million patients annually and significantly improving patient outcomes.

    Mr. Kiani is also the CEO of Willow Laboratories, a health and wellness innovator focused on advancing non-invasive monitoring and diabetes care, and Like Minded Labs, a company developing cutting-edge video technologies. He serves on the Board of Directors of CDX Medical Technologies, an early-stage respiratory care company.

    Mr. Kiani holds over 500 patents or patent applications in advanced signal processing, optical sensors, and wearable technologies. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University.

  • Hilda Scharen-Guivel

    DIRECTOR

    Ms. Scharen-Guivel has served on our Board of Directors since October 2022. Ms. Scharen-Guivel formerly served as Program Director of the Food and Drug Administration Center of Devices and Radiological Health, where she led and implemented the new Medical Device Development Tools program. Her career spans over 25 years within multiple federal agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Institutes of Health. She served on active duty as a Captain of the United States Public Health Service for 27 years.

    Ms. Scharen-Guivel received a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Engineering from the Catholic University of America.