Management

Paul Geyer, CEO

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.

Elisabeth Maurer, President and CTO

Dr. Elisabeth Maurer is the principal inventor of ThromboLUX^TM 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.

Gyasi Bourne, Senior Engineer

Gyasi Bourne brings ten years of medical device development experience to the LIT team. As former VP of Engineering at Evasc Medical Systems, he played a key role in developing new intravascular implants to address heart disease and stroke, and is named on several issued and pending patents. Gyasi is also a principal at Canister Creative, a Communication Design firm that provides creative services to the Life Sciences industry. Gyasi received his BASc. in mechanical engineering from the University of British Columbia, and has spent his entire engineering career innovating new medical devices.