Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Elisabeth Maurer
Paul Geyer
Brent James
Geof Auchinleck
Elisabeth Maurer
Dr. Elisabeth Maurer is the principal inventor of ThromboLUXTM and the founder of LightIntegra Technology. Dr. Maurer has twenty years of research experience devoting her career to understanding platelet function and the application of dynamic light scattering. She is a scientist with Canadian Blood Services, holds a position as clinical associate professor with the University of British Columbia and is an active member of a number of organizations with a focus on blood transfusion such as AABB, CSTM, ISTH and the UBC CBR. She received her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria.
Paul Geyer
Paul has been actively involved in the cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology markets for the past twenty years. In 1991 he founded Mitroflow International Inc., and as President and CEO, he grew the company from 9 to 125 employees as it successfully commercialized various tissue heart valve products. In 1999 the company was named one of BC’s “50 Fastest Growing Companies”, and was sold to Sulzer Medica for over $50 million. Paul received the 1998 Entrepreneur of the Year award from the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, and in 1999 was named one of the “40 under 40” business people in British Columbia by Business in Vancouver. Paul went on to found Medical Venture Corp. (Now Neovasc Inc.), a specialty vascular device company that develops medical devices for the rapidly growing vascular and surgical marketplace. At Medical Ventures, he was responsible for raising over $37 million in equity financing and expanding the company’s product portfolio through internal development and the acquisition of three other companies.
In addition to his role as CEO at LightIntegra, Paul is Chairman at Neovasc, and is an active Angel investor in technology and life science companies. He has served on the Board of Directors of Science World British Columbia since 2003 where he was actively involved in the establishment of a new life sciences gallery called “BodyWorks” and currently holds the position of Chairman. Paul has also established a private foundation, the PNG Enterprise foundation, which is actively involved in projects supporting a number of different Charitable organizations including World Vision, Red Cross, Salvation Army, local public schools, take-a-hike youth at risk program, Science World and others.
Paul graduated with a BASc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 1988 and gained his Professional Engineer status in 1990. He has taken numerous postgraduate courses in Bio-medical Engineering and medical technology and has completed the Canadian Securities Course.
Brent James
Brent was an early employee at MDI Mobile Data International, where he pioneered the marketing of wireless communications into the North American utility industry. Subsequent to MDI, Brent was a co-founder of MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc., a leading provider of wireless workforce management solutions in the utilities and telecommunications industries worldwide. MDSI went public on NASDAQ in the late 1990’s, and was recently taken private.
Following MDSI, Brent became the first CEO of Abebooks.com, one of the world’s largest Internet sources of used, rare, and out-of-print books. Abebooks was recently sold to Amazon in a transaction that provided healthy returns for founders, employees, and investors.
Brent now spends his time consulting to the local technology industry, being an active angel investor, participating on community and business board of directors, and teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in Entrepreneurship at the Sauder School of Business, UBC.
Geof Auchinleck
Geof has been involved in the medical device industry since the early 1980s, working on a number of medical devices projects ranging from advanced laboratory automation systems to development of the world’s first surgical robot.
In 1997, Geof founded Neoteric Technology Ltd., a company providing systems for managing blood products for transfusion in hospitals. He managed and grew the company until April 2009 when it was sold to Haemonetics Corporation.
Since 1990, Geof has served on the Board of Directors of Vancouver’s Medical Device Development Centre Association, and has served as Chair since 1993. He is also active as a mentor for start-up companies in the Vancouver area and with the AceTech Academy for Technology CEOs.
Geof studied Engineering Physics at the University of British Columbia and holds 15 US patents on inventions ranging from surgical robotic devices to systems for ensuring safe blood transfusion.