A Better Way to Manage Cardiovascular Function

Our Team

Meet our management team & board of directors

Shawn Moaddeb
Chairman of the Board

Founder & Chairman of Pressao Medical., a medical technology incubator. Shawn is an entrepreneur with a strong background in both start-up and large established organizations (Johnson & Johnson, St. Jude Medical).

Shawn has held various leadership positions; CEO, senior executive, and board member. Shawn has co-founded multiple medical device companies with several successful exists: EP Dynamics, Lavita Technologies, Renal Dynamics, Vessix Vascular, Ellipse Technologies, Savona Therapeutics, and Oncogenics Guidance Systems.

Shawn is also chairman of the board at Anaxiom Corp, chairman of the board at Vascular Health, and CEO & chairman of the board at Allevion Therapeutics.

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Joshua Li
Board Member

Dr. Li is an accomplished executive with over 25 years of medical device experience in both large and start-up companies including Johnson & Johnson & Microport. Currently, Dr. Li is the CEO of Hangzhou Innocardiac Medtech Ltd, medical device company developing the next generation percutaneous aortic reconstruction technology. Dr. Li received his PhD in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University.

Hangzhou Innocardiac Medtech Ltd.: CEO

Past Affiliations:

Nova Vascular Inc CEO

Sinomed: CTO

Johnson and Johnson, principal engineer

Microport Group, Senior R&D VP

Microport Endovascular: Executive VP

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Randy Werneth
Board Member

Randy Werneth is a seasoned executive with 25 years of experience in both small entrepreneurial and Fortune 500 corporations in the medical device industry.

Mr. Werneth is CEO of Maxwell Biomedical, Inc. developing the next generation of wireless remote cardiac pacing and monitoring implantable device. Mr. Werneth is partner at Evolve Medtech Partners, a technology development company. Previously, Mr. Werneth successfully started several other venture backed companies including Acutus Medical, Securus Medical, Ablation Frontiers, and CryoTherapeutics. Mr. Werneth previously held senior level positions at Medtronic, Micro Therapeutics, and Edwards Lifesciences where he engineered and/or managed the design and development of numerous medical technologies and clinical procedures in the fields of stents, neuro-embolic materials, vulnerable plaque, and electrophysiology. He also sits on the board of several venture funded medical device companies in the US and Europe. Mr. Werneth holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU) and a Masters in Science from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He has more than 70 issued U.S. Patents in various medical technology fields.

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Shinya Miike
Board Member

Shinya has 25 year of experience in the medical device business. He invested in several venture companies who develop various new medical devices with hands on operations.

Shinya is currently CEO & President of Neuroceuticals, Inc., a privately held company supporting overseas start-up medical device companies entering the Japanese market by investing, and setting up marketing strategy in Japan including obtaining government approval (PMDA approval).

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Shigeru Yasue
Board Observer

Mr. Shigeru Yasue is a seasoned investment executive with broad business development and execution experience leading to multiple successful exits.

Shigeru is currently board of Medical Development Support 1 Limited Partnership with over 20 years of VC investment experience with Mitsubishi UFJ Capital. Shigeru has been involved with multiple successful exits with both Japanese and U.S. companies including Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc.(FPRX), Opko Health ,Inc.(OPK), Affymax,Inc.(AFFY), MacroGenics Inc. (MGNX), KaloBios Pharmaceuticals,Inc (KBIO), iPierian Inc.,(Acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb), Solasia Pharmaceuticals (Tokyo Stock Exchange, Mothers), SanBio (TSE, Mothers), StemRim (TSE ,Mothers), and Modaris (TSE ,Mothers). Shigeru was previously a board member of TMS,Co., Ltd., developing a novel acute stroke agent and was acquired by Biogen in June 2021.

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Reza Allamezadeh
MD Chief Medical Officer

Reza is double board certified in Nephrology and Internal Medicine with subspecialty training in Kidney Transplant and Pancreas Transplant. Reza’s expertise includes Hypertension and treating patients with various level of hypertension.

Reza completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Kern Medical Center. He subsequently completed his nephrology fellowship at UCI Medical Center where he scored the highest in the nation among all other nephrology fellows on the nephrology exam. After his fellowship training at UCI, Reza completed his subspecialty training in kidney transplant & pancreas transplant at UCLA Medical Center. While he was at UCLA he worked on over 300 transplant patients and also received high honors and recognition for his presentation at the American Society of Transplant conference. Reza is affiliated with multiple hospitals as well as private practice in Mission Viejo, CA.

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James Hill, MD, JD
Legal and IP Advisor

James is a physician, patent attorney, and partner at FisherBroyles, where he practices patent litigation and prosecution in the areas of medical devices, biotechnology, software, and pharmaceuticals. He is a cofounder of Highpoint Therapeutics, an oncology startup focused on killing cancer stem cells with nanoencapsulated salinomycin and other agents.

A graduate of the University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine, James received residency training in internal medicine and in radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he was awarded a fellowship in neuroradiology. He completed coursework in the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering program at USC, with an emphasis in signal and image processing. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition with a research interest in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.

James is recommended in Chambers USA and The Legal 500 United States in the area of life sciences and named a leading patent professional in California by IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners for both patent litigation and prosecution, and a Top 25 Portfolio Manager by the Daily Journal. He has served on the scientific board of advisors for several life science companies.

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Hee Young Kim, PhD, DVM
Scientific Advisor

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Professor Kim previously was Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, College of Korean Medicine, Daegu Haany University, Daegu, South Korea.

Professor Kim has authored and coauthored more than 60 scientific articles and books including several publications related to wrist wearable neuromodulation therapy devices to treat hypertension and other disorders.
Professor Kim received numerous awards and honors and holds several patents related to neuromodulation therapies and is currently a member of Society for Neuroscience and invited speaker in several international symposiums.
Professor Kim earned his Ph.D. in 2005 in East-West Medicine from Kyung Hee University, Suwon, South Korea with postdoc in 2010 from University of Texas, Galveston.
He has earned a series of research and academic distinctions, including a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Professor Kim is an associate editor and reviewer for BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Journal of Neuroscience Research, Neural Plasticity, Neuroscience letter, and Korean Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian.

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Roy Tanaka
Board Member

Roy is a member of the Boards of Directors of Thermedical, VytronUS, EPIX Therapeutics, and BioSig Technologies, medical device start-ups developing technologies for treating atrial fibrillation and cardiac arrhythmia.

He has also served on the boards of Volcano Corporation, a company that develops intravascular ultrasound that aid in the diagnosis and treatment of vascular and structural heart disease. TomoTherapy Incorporated, an advanced radiation therapy company that markets systems for the treatment of a wide range of cancer types. And Coherex, an atrial appendage closure device company. Prior to his retirement, Roy was the Worldwide President of Biosense Webster, a Johnson & Johnson Company, from March, 2004 until his retirement in September, 2008. Biosense Webster is the market and technology leader in the field of electrophysiology, a subspecialty of cardiology dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disorders.

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Jack Wang, PhD
Board Member

Dr. Wang is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of medical device industry experience with successful business execution and exits.

Dr. Wang currently is chairman of the board of HeMo Bioengineering Limited, medical device company established in 2017 primarily focused on neurovascular intervention currently in China with two operating institutions, Weihai R&D and production and Beijing marketing and sales headquarters. Prior to this. Dr. Wang was CEO of Biosensors International, responsible for significant growth and strategic direction leading to the acquisition of several successful companies. Prior to joining Biosensors in 2001, Dr. Wang had worked for Johnson & Johnson (Cordis) and Guidant Corporation. Dr. Wang was granted more than 20 US and European patents in medical devices and technology and has published more than 30 scientific papers on polymer materials and processing according to a Biosensors International Group report. Dr. Wang received his doctorate in polymer science from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

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