About | D-Rev

D-Rev is a non-profit product development company that designs and delivers products to people living on less than $4 a day.

Our products are:

World-Class

D-Rev designs products that are on par or better than the best devices out there.

Market-Driven

All of our products are designed to scale on the market, not through donations or subsidies.

User-Obsessed

When we talk about users we are talking about not just a product’s end users, but every person in the customer chain.

We drive all aspects of the design process

D-Rev owns the research, design, and development of our products and then partners with industry leaders to manufacture and scale for maximum impact.

Identify, Design, Deliver, Scale, Measure

Identify high impact opportunities that can increase incomes or improve the health of 1 million+ people living on less than $4 per day.

Design products to meet customer needs, incorporating manufacturing, distribution, and servicing.

Deliver to users by integrating the product into the market to maximize sustained impact.

Scale up appropriately for maximum global impact and measure impact to determine that the product is reaching the people and places who need it.

Our Team

Krista Donaldson

Chief Executive Officer

Krista Donaldson, PhD, has driven innovation in product design, engineering, and international development for more than 15 years. As D-Rev’s CEO, Krista’s has led the release of Brilliance, a revolutionary technology treating neonatal jaundice, and the ReMotion prosthetic knee. Her leadership has won Krista acclaim as one of Fast Company’s Co.Design 50 Designers Shaping the Future, a TED speaker and a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. She has also been a Rainer Arnhold Fellow and a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow.

Prior to D-Rev, Krista served as a Diplomacy Fellow in the U.S. Department of State’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she guided economic policy and the reconstruction of Iraq’s electricity sector. Her work there earned recognition for its impact on bilateral relations. From 1998 to 2001, she worked as a design engineer and researcher with KickStart International (formerly ApproTEC) in Nairobi, Kenya. She also has worked at the product design firm IDEO.

A native of Nova Scotia, Krista holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University as well as a MSE (Product Design), MSME and a PhD from Stanford University. Her doctoral work was among the first to focus on engineering and social entrepreneurship in less industrialized economies. Krista has taught at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya and South Africa’s University of Cape Town. She is also currently a lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University.

Randy Schwemmin

Director of Technical Operations

Randy’s 17 years of product development and manufacturing operations leadership have focused on creating impact by successfully delivering products that make a difference. In his most recent role at Genentech, he managed the highly successful global supply chain for all products used in clinical trials. Randy’s work shortened time to market and ensured balance between supply and demand—a critical step in cost management.

Prior to Genentech, Randy led manufacturing engineering at a medical device startup, where he and his team quickly scaled production for three medical device manufacturing lines. Earlier, at Lockheed Martin, Randy developed Design for Six Sigma practices that capitalized on solid digital models to make aircraft assemblies more accurate and affordable.

Randy holds an MBA and an MS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University and a BSE in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Nicole Rappin

Operations Manager

Nicole is drawn to organizations that are nimble and innovative in their approach to addressing the pressing needs of developing communities around the globe. Prior to joining the D-Rev team, Nicole worked in communication and restructuring strategy for The HUB in San Francisco, and in public policy research at InterAction and the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development in Washington, DC. Nicole has worked as a Research Assistant conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Peru for the Pontificía Universidad Católica; in Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia for American University; and in Qatar for Carnegie Mellon University.

Nicole holds a dual-degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Cross Cultural Communication and Music History & Culture with minors in Hispanic Studies and International Relations.

Vinesh Narayan

ReMotion Product Manager

Vin joined D-Rev’s ReMotion project after co-designing a low-cost elbow prosthetic in a Stanford University course on medical device design. While a graduate student, Vin gravitated toward the medical device arena because of its direct human impact, and this same passion led him to continue his work at D-Rev. Vin believes that solutions with the highest capacity for positive impact combine organizational sustainability with human benefit. Consequently, he is focused on finding sustainable ways to bring ReMotion prosthetic devices to more people outside of India, where it is currently being fit through clinical trials with the JaipurFoot Organization.

Vin holds a Master’s degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University with a concentration in Entrepreneurial Design, focusing on the design of products and services in startup environments that have a high degree of ambiguity. Prior to Stanford, he studied restorative tendon-transfer surgeries at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

AJ Viola

Neonatal Jaundice Initiative Product Manager

AJ’s career path has taken him through both the private and nonprofit sectors. Before D-Rev he worked for McMaster-Carr, where he was most recently responsible for running warehouse operations and driving projects aimed at improving productivity and speed. Prior to this he worked for United Way Silicon Valley, helping assess business development strategies and performing quantitative analyses to maximize the effectiveness of fundraising resources. He has also worked with entrepreneurs in India, bringing to market a high-quality wheelchair at an affordable price. He appreciates the challenge of creating sustainable businesses that are mission-driven and is eager to help D-Rev accomplish both.

AJ holds a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Garrett Spiegel

Comet Product Manager

Motivated by a desire to decrease inequalities in a community capacity, Garrett is passionate about using health technology development and delivery as a vehicle for change. In college, he began repairing and installing second-hand, donated medical devices in hospitals and clinics in Central America and the Caribbean, and then shifted his focus to designing technologies specifically for low-resource settings. Since then, he has designed devices and managed projects that have been implemented across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

He holds a BE in Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Management from Vanderbilt University.

Samuel Hamner

Design Engineer

Sam is motivated to design and implement solutions that reduce poverty, improve access to healthcare and education, and promote social justice. D-Rev’s combination of human-centered design, market-driven entrepreneurship, and dedication to sustainable impact made for a perfect fit. Before joining D-Rev, Sam earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University as part of the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab, where he focused on understanding the principles of human movement through simulation. While at Stanford, Sam also co-founded The Pepper Eater an affordable pepper grinder for women in rural Ethiopia that is now part of Compatible Technology International.

Originally from Florida, Sam also has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida with minors in Material Science and Religious Studies.

Michael Hong

R&D Engineer

Michael began his career with the engineering professional development program at Abbott, wearing many engineering hats across multiple divisions, industries, and locations. After the final rotation landed Michael in the San Francisco bay area, he fell in love with the water, mountains, trees, and technology. He worked as an R&D engineer at Abbott Vascular Structural Heart (formerly Evalve) developing the percutaneous Mitral Valve repair device, MitraClip. After a term of national service with Habitat for Humanity as an Americorps Construction Crew Leader, Michael’s interest in medical device engineering and passion for helping others came together at D-Rev.

Michael holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he studied the mechanotransduction pathways of embryonic stem cells. Michael lives in Oakland and enjoys biking, cooking, camping, and volunteering in the community.

Sara Tollefson

Director of Impact

Sara was drawn to D-Rev’s dedication to a user-centered design process, as well as D-Rev’s nimble and can-do attitude towards iterating their process and products as needed. She manages collection, analysis, and sharing of D-Rev’s impact data.

Previously, Sara worked as a lawyer at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York. While at Fried Frank, she spent six months as a full-time extern at Legal Aid Society’s Community Development Program and seven months running the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s statement-taking efforts in New York. Prior to her time at Fried Frank, she worked in technology and at a number of non-profits in the US and abroad. Sara holds a BA in Political Science from Stanford University and a JD from New York University School of Law.

Rob Weiss

Business Analyst

Rob is motivated about bringing high-quality, affordable technologies to communities that lack access to life-improving products. Rob previously worked on climate change and clean energy policy in Washington, DC. More recently, he has worked in Cambodia, India, and Timor-Leste helping start-up social enterprises distribute micro solar—lanterns and photovoltaic home systems—to rural village customers. He also worked on small-scale energy engineering projects with D-Lab (El Salvador) and Mercy Corps (Timor-Leste) in 2012. Rob has lived and worked in China, and is proficient in Mandarin. With D-Rev, Rob is thrilled to apply skills in business planning, supplier relations and distribution to help scale the Neonatal Jaundice Initiative in Southeast Asia.

Rob is currently a masters’ student at Harvard Kennedy School (on leave of absence). He holds a B.A. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University.

Kelly Blank

Graphic Designer

Kelly’s interest in the arts began at a very young age, and by the time she was a freshman in high school, she knew she wanted to pursue a career in graphic design. At D-Rev, Kelly combines her passion for design and technology by creating and managing content for D-Rev’s website and developing a wide variety of collateral materials.

Kelly holds a BFA in Art and Design with a concentration in Graphic Design from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Rajen Kumar

Engineering Fellow

Rajen joins D-Rev as a Fellow from Medtronic Cardiovascular where he is currently an R&D Engineer. During his graduate work, Rajen specialized in understanding both effective and ineffective medical technologies developed for resource-limited settings. As an outcome of his studies, Rajen worked to develop a medical device with a global health design startup aimed at improving maternal health procedures in Sub-Saharan Africa. Bridging the healthcare gap in developing regions continues to be among his personal and professional passions. During his fellowship with D-Rev, Rajen will be supporting the ReMotion Knee.

Rajen holds a Bachelors and Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Board of Directors

John Dawson

Chairman of the Board

John’s commitment to D-Rev stems from his belief in the transformative power of markets and appropriate technology, and from the many years of success of the D-Rev founders at using these tools to better the lives of millions of poor people worldwide. John has worked in Silicon Valley for more than 30 years. After graduating from Stanford, he worked at Xerox PARC, then was a senior executive or co-founder of several successful startups, including CASE Technology, Gain Technology, and Zentek. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Board at D-Rev, he also serves on the boards of OneReef (Chairman) and Island Conservation; past board service includes Partners in Education, Vipani, Zentek Singapore, The Learning Center, and SV2. He also serves as a lecturer at the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program.

Stuart Coulson

Treasurer

Stuart Coulson worked in the airline and travel reservations industry as a senior corporate executive for 25 years. In 1997, he founded Gradient Solutions, a world-class provider of Internet travel website technology, which was acquired three years later by Sabre, the world’s largest processor of travel transactions.

Stuart brings his experience as a successful startup entrepreneur to D-Rev’s operations, strategic thinking and product delivery after a number of years searching for the right outlet to address the problems of the world’s poor. D-Rev epitomizes his philosophy of market-driven, self-sustaining product and service-based solutions that can make a real impact through successful execution and scale.

Stuart teaches part of the Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability course at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute for Design, focusing on business planning and mentoring project teams. He is an angel investor in and mentor for early stage, high-tech companies and market-driven social enterprises. He owns and operates the old-vine zinfandel vineyard Papera Ranch in California’s Russian River Valley.

A native of Ireland, Stuart has a BA (Mod.) in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, an MBA from the University of Geneva, and an Executive MBA from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business.

Michael Wolfe

Board Member

Michael Wolfe is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Pipewise, Inc. He has been a founder, founding employee, and/or executive at multiple startups, including Vontu, Symantec, and Kana. He was most recently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital and has taught and lectured at Stanford University and Harvard, Dartmouth, and St. Mary’s business schools. Mike thinks D-Rev blows away the conventional wisdom that under-served markets deserve second class products.

When not working or with his family, Mike enjoys triathlons, cyclocross, ultra-distance running, traveling, and loves living in San Francisco. Mike holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Ellen Leanse

Board Member

Ellen Leanse is a recognized authority on strategic marketing and a pioneer of the use of online technologies to accelerate business growth. Named as one of Technology’s Top Five Marketers (2012) and a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence, Ellen has guided companies including Apple, Google, Intuit, Samsung, and others in building market share and driving growth. She has worked hands-on with rural entrepreneurs and educators in Africa and Latin America and currently guides a portfolio of early-stage Web and social innovation startups.

Ellen currently serves as Executive Vice President and Strategic Director for Eastwick, a leading Silicon Valley strategic communications consultancy. Prior to Eastwick, she lead global communications for Google Enterprise, helping drive rapid growth for Google’s B2B products to markets worldwide. Early in her career, she championed accessory product localization for Apple’s 1984 Macintosh launch, and—as Apple’s first User Evangelist—drove the company’s first steps onto online networks. She is responsible for launching the first BarCamp Africa, an “unconference” that forged action-oriented connections between people and opportunities in Silicon Valley and Africa. Ellen is committed to upholding the D-Rev vision for shaping the world’s health and economic growth through the power of globally-appropriate medical design.

Jim Patell

Board Member

Jim Patell is the Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business (GSB). He is a founding professor of Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability course where graduate students design comprehensive solutions to challenges faced by the world’s poor. Started in 2004, the Extreme class brings together students from all of Stanford’s seven schools. Recognized social enterprises, such as Ignite Innovations, d.light, DripTech and Embrace, had their start in Extreme. Jim also co-directs the Product Realization Network at Stanford, and is a founding faculty member of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (the d-School). Jim’s research and teaching interests center on business process and product design, operations management, manufacturing, and cost accounting. A popular and demanding teacher, he has authored numerous articles in the field of accounting. During his tenure as associate dean for academic affairs in the GSB, he redesigned and revitalized the Public Management Program, which focuses on government, nonprofit organizations, and public service.

Jim earned Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University. He has taught at Stanford since 1975 and was a Ford Foundation Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Chicago from 1981-1982.

John Mayerhofer

Board Member

John is passionate about enabling enduring prosperity for all through intentional design. John is currently Vice President of Innovation at SAP Labs where he designs programs to cultivate grass roots and open innovation, helps design apps for sustainable design decision making, and k-12 education.

John was formerly an active volunteer at the Cradle-to-Cradle Innovation Institute from the time of conception advising on start-up issues such as charter, funding, entity formation, intellectual property, and other operational considerations. He chaired their Advisory Council, and provided input on standards development processes, operations, and innovation community development.

John has 20 years of experience delivering and bringing to market software driven solutions (internet services, mobile, media, platform, enterprise applications, security, cloud, social media) for companies such as Oracle, Gain, BroadVision, Westbridge, and VoiceIndigo.

He was also formerly a process design and environmental engineer. John has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduated Magna Cum Laude. More details at http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmayerhofer.

Olana Khan

Board Member

Olana Khan‘s commitment to the social sector began at a young age, when she realized that the “luck” of the country you were born in, determined your access to equal human rights, safe shelter and food, and educational opportunities. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Olana spent time in Thailand working at the orphanage where her younger sister was raised. After returning to the United States, Olana joined the technology sector where she spent over 15 years working with Netscape, America Online, and Google. She moved into the non-profit world in 2006, by joining Kiva.org as COO, and helped them scale into the pioneer of peer to peer micro-lending. Most recently, Olana was COO of ProFounder Financial, a crowdfunding lending platform. Olana currently is a management consultant through her company Esan Partners, which provides strategic planning, executive coaching and leadership training.

Olana ran the family foundation OZ Foundation from 2006- 2010, which focused on providing technology solutions in the microfinance and education sectors. She now invests her time, treasure, and talent in partnering which companies that use technology for disruptive social impact.

Olana has extensive Board leadership experience, currently supporting five organizations in her role of Board member. In addition to serving on the D-Rev Board, Olana also sits on the Board of The Philanthropy Workshop West, Samasource , Bay Area Adoption Services, and Engage Click.

Olana also believes strongly in civic engagement and has worked extensively with her local city government on issues of affordable housing and community programs.

Board of Advisors

Vinod Bhutani, MD

D-Rev Advisor

Vinod Bhutani is a Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine and one of the world’s leading specialists in the management of neonatal jaundice. He developed the Bhutani Nomogram, a widely used framework for risk assessment of babies with jaundice, and was a key collaborator in developing the AAP’s guidelines for neonatal jaundice management. In addition to Dr. Bhuanti’s experience with neonatal care in developed countries, he has also pioneered efforts to improve newborn care internationally. He is currently working with neonatologists around the world to document the global burden of kernicterus and to develop pragmatic strategies for neonatal jaundice management in resource-limited settings. Dr. Bhutani has been particularly engaged in improving neonatal care in India, and is widely recognized for his efforts.

Bernie Roth, PhD

D-Rev Advisor

Bernie Roth is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and is the Academic Director and one of the founders of Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the “d-school”). He has a worldwide reputation as a researcher in kinematics and robotics, as well as creativity and design thinking. Bernie was the principal investigator on a joint Stanford-D-Rev grant for the research and engineering that led to the development of Brilliance. He has served as president of the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (IFToMM) and as Chair of the Design Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Bernie has received many awards for both his teaching and research.

Laura Hattendorf

D-Rev Advisor

Laura Hattendorf is currently the Portfolio Director for the Mulago Foundation, which supports social enterprises like D-Rev that are implementing high impact, scalable solutions to the problems of health, poverty, and conservation in developing countries. She also acts as an adviser to the Rainer Arnhold Fellows and other social enterprises around the world, with an emphasis on strategy and organization building.

Earlier, Laura was a co-founder of Sustainable Conservation, having served as Executive Director and Co-Executive Director from 1993 to 2000. In addition to founding Sustainable Conservation, she was a senior executive with the McArthur/Glen Group, a commercial real estate developer, and an analyst at Strategic Planning Associates, now part of Oliver Wyman Consulting. Laura received her BS in economics and finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and her MBA and Certificate in Public Management from Stanford University.

Henk Vreman, PhD

D-Rev Advisor

Hendrik Vreman, Ph.D, is a senior research scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine and one of the world’s foremost experts in devices for diagnosis and treatment of neonatal jaundice. Dr. Vreman has developed pioneering technologies for jaundice diagnosis management, including end-tidal breath carbon monoxide analysis and LED-based phototherapy systems. He has also created a rigorous standardized framework for analyzing and comparing the efficacy of phototherapy devices. Dr. Vreman is committed to enabling effective jaundice management in resource-limited settings. Collaborating with partners in the United States, Nigeria, Uganda, and Pakistan, Dr. Vreman has pioneered low-cost treatment for neonatal jaundice.

Kevin Starr, MD

D-Rev Advisor

Kevin Starr directs the Mulago Foundation and is the founder and director of the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program. Mulago spends its money driving forward the most promising ideas in health, development, and conservation in poor countries – projects like the ones D-Rev designs and delivers. The foundation is unabashedly obsessed with impact: designing for it, measuring it, investing in it, and taking it to scale.

Kevin had a perfectly good career in medicine and international health when he stumbled into philanthropy in the early 1990’s. Since then he’s gotten deep into dozens of projects ranging from forest conservation by monks in Tibet to micro-franchise clinics in Kenya to one-acre farming in Burma. His innovative ways of thinking about delivery and impact are well-recognized in the social innovation community, particularly following his PopTech talk: How not to change the world. Kevin went through medical school and residency at UC San Francisco and has lived in SF ever since. He teaches and mentors fellows in other programs for social entrepreneurs and still practices medicine (very) part time.

Paul Polak, MD

D-Rev Advisor

Dr. Paul Polak, co-founder of D-Rev, currently leads the Access for Agriculture project with Kentaro Toyama. A psychiatrist, entrepreneur, educator and author, Paul has pursued a life mission of igniting a revolution among designers to develop solutions to poverty. He is probably best known for starting International Development Enterprises (IDE), a non-profit organization that has helped to end poverty for 17 million of the world’s poorest people by making available radically affordable irrigation through local small entrepreneurs and opening private sector access to markets for their crops. For his work in agriculture, Paul has been recognized by Scientific American as one of the top 50 contributors to science. He was also one of the lead organizers of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt’s exhibit: Design for the Other Ninety Percent.

Paul’s book, Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail has been internationally recognized for practical solutions to global poverty.

Armand Neukermans, PhD

ReMotion Advisor

Armand believes that amputees everywhere should have access to affordable, high-quality prosthetics and is an avid supporter of the Jaipur Foot Organization (BMVSS) in India. After initiating the Stanford-BMVSS collaboration that eventually led to the ReMotion JaipurKnee’s conception, Armand continued on as an invaluable advisor throughout the project’s incubation and launch.

Armand holds engineering degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Louvain University, and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University. Since 1964, he has held various research and senior management positions within the organizations of KLA-Tencor, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox and General Electric. He was the Chairman and CTO of Xros, an optical switch company acquired by Nortel Networks in 2000. Armand is also the inventor/co-inventor of over 75 patents in diverse fields, and was named Silicon Valley “Inventor of the Year” in 2001. He serves on the board of both public and private companies, and is a visiting professor in entrepreneurship at Louvain University.

Gary M. Berke, MS, CP, FAAOP

ReMotion Advisor

Gary M. Berke MS, CP, FAAOP has been dedicated to the care of those who have suffered limb loss for over 25 years. He is currently an Adjunct Clinical Instructor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Stanford and President of Gary M. Berke Prosthetics and Orthotics. Mr. Berke is a past president, and now fellow, of the American Academy of Orthotists & Prosthetists, an organization dedicated to advancing the standards of patient care, and has lectured nationally and internationally. In addition to his work in the U.S., Mr. Berke is passionate about assisting developing nations and has worked in Vietnam with both an NGO and USAID to improve prosthetic care and education. Mr. Berke has advised and supported the ReMotion JaipurKnee project with his clinical expertise since its inception and is driven to help increase access to affordable, high performance prosthetics in the developing world.

Mr. Berke has a B.S. in Kinesiology from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and an M.S. from the University of Connecticut.

Dante Pauwels, MFA

Creative Director

Dante is an award-winning designer and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Dante Beatrix (now BeatrixNY) and Pop-Up, a housewares company. She has designed products for Martha Stewart, and created branding work for large, well-known clients such as Timberland, Kodak and Keds.

Dante works with D-Rev in re-thinking and envisioning their brand identity, most specifically, the redesign of D-Rev’s website. She particularly likes D-Rev’s efficiency in bringing life-changing improvements to the world.

Dante has a BA in architecture and a BFA in design from Washington University in St. Louis, and her MFA in Product Design from Stanford University. She has taught at California College of Arts and is a guest lecturer at Stanford University.

Eric Thorsell, MS

ReMotion Advisor

Eric is co-founder of D-Rev’s ReMotion project, which aims to provide high-performance prostheses for the developing world, and co-designer of the JaipurKnee, a low-cost prosthetic knee joint for above-knee amputees. His passion for design for extreme affordability has been motivated by his travels in Southeast Asia and India; Eric seeks to integrate his engineering knowledge with a desire to directly benefit individuals.

Eric holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, where his work was focused on medical device design, biomechanics and Design Thinking, a human-centered process of innovation. As R&D lead for a medical device start-up SurgSolutions, Eric has worked from concept through mechanical design to get a prototype device into the operating room, and has directed procedures during human feasibility studies. Eric also holds a bachelor’s degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and has worked as a machinist.

Joel Sadler, MS

Technical Advisor

Joel is co-founder of D-Rev’s ReMotion project, which aims to provide high-performance prostheses for the developing world, and co-designer of the JaipurKnee, a low-cost prosthetic knee joint for above-knee amputees. A native of Jamaica, Joel grew up searching for ways to create innovative solutions to problems in the developing world. While designing wheelchairs as an undergraduate at MIT, he found his vocation: to solve human needs by combining empathy and technology with the aim of creating sustainable societal impact.

Joel holds Mechanical Engineering degrees from MIT and Stanford, and has held industry positions in medical device design at Ethicon and product design at Apple Computer. He recently served as a lecturer and fellow at the Stanford Design Institute, teaching Design Thinking, a human-centered process of innovation.

Amelia Schellpfeffer, MBA

East African Markets Advisor

Amy is passionate about leveraging the power of business and design to drive positive social change. Her recent work with the Northwestern Global Health Initiative on medical device distribution in India inspired her strong desire to create robust systems for product delivery to low-resource settings. As a member of D-Rev’s Neonatal Jaundice Initiative project team based in Nairobi, Kenya, Amy used her previous experiences in consumer goods manufacturing along with her business and design skills to create an East African supply chain and distribution strategy for D-Rev’s phototherapy products.

Formerly, Amy worked in Engineering for Procter & Gamble. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and is pursuing an MBA at the Kellogg School of Management and an MEM from the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.

Quhan (Dorothy) Zhuomei, MBA

East African Markets Advisor

As a member of the Neonatal Jaundice Initiative project team based in Nairobi, Kenya, Dorothy conducted field research to understand African medical device markets and networks. At D-Rev, she is able to combine her passion for global health and social entrepreneurship to bring positive impact to a region about which she deeply cares.

Dorothy earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Occidental College and an MBA/MEM with a focus in entrepreneurship, design, and innovation from the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. She has experience in biopharmaceutical R&D and management consulting.

Ben Cline, MS

Product Engineer & Advisor, Neonatal Jaundice Initiative

Ben’s passion for engineering, science and humanity led him to D-Rev, where he works closely with end-users to design practical and affordable medical devices. His work at D-Rev began with a Stanford class on precision engineering. What started as a class project to design a microscope for the developing world, soon became D-Rev’s Global Scope. Ben continued the work, designing the fine focus mechanism for the microscope and making the design rugged enough for use in extreme environments. Ben also initiated and currently advises D-Rev’s Brilliance project, which is developing low-cost, highly efficacious phototherapy to treat neonatal jaundice. Ben is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.

Nupur Srivastava, MBA

D-Rev Advisor

Nupur is passionate about the intersection of mobile, health and technology to impact large scale social change. She currently heads Product Management at AliveCor where she helps bring disruption to the heart rhythm monitoring industry through a mobile based ECG monitor. She currently sits on the board of Maternova, the first global marketplace for ideas and technologies saving mothers and newborns.

Formerly, Nupur worked as a Product Manager in Cisco Telemedicine. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. While at Stanford, she had the pleasure of taking Design for Extreme Affordability, and that is when she worked with D-Rev as a design partner and fell in love with their work.

Rajiv Doshi, MD, MBA

D-Rev Advisor

Dr. Rajiv Doshi serves as the Executive Director (US) of Stanford-India Biodesign and is also a Consulting Assistant Professor of Medicine. Dr. Doshi’s research and teaching interests involve medical technology innovation for emerging markets, with a particular focus on India. Dr. Doshi has served as an advisor to the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India since the Stanford-India Biodesign program began in 2007. He also has advised foundations and medical technology companies in crafting strategies to create new medical products for India. In 2012, he was named by Forbes India as one of the top 18 Indian scientists who are changing the world.

Dr. Doshi serves as a Sr. Advisor to LUNAR Design, where he co-directs the emerging markets medical technology practice. In this role, Dr. Doshi advises companies how to identify unmet clinical needs in India and how to create appropriate solutions to those needs.

Dr. Doshi is the Founder and CEO of LightSide MD, a consumer medical products incubator. Dr. Doshi previously founded Ventus Medical, where he served as its first CEO and later as CSO. Dr. Doshi is the inventor of the core technology of Ventus Medical’s products: for obstructive sleep apnea (Provent Sleep Apnea Therapy) and snoring (Theravent Snoring Therapy). Prior to founding Ventus Medical, he was a Principal at De Novo Ventures. Dr. Doshi has roughly 70 US and international patents issued or pending. Dr. Doshi earned a BS in Chemical Engineering, an MS in Biomechanical Engineering and an MD, all from Stanford University where he was a Soros Fellow.

Chuck McCall

D-Rev Advisor

Chuck moved west to attend Stanford University in 1995 after three years working as a mechanical/thermal engineer at a small aerospace firm. He earned his masters degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, focusing on electromechancal systems. While at Stanford, Chuck was a teaching assistant in the Product Realization Laboratory.

After graduating, Chuck co-founded REM Design. Given his solid background as a mechanical engineer, he is able to make tradeoffs between solving problems mechanically, in hardware, or in firmware.

Rob Dennis

D-Rev Advisor

Rob graduated from Stanford University in 1997 as well, but with a Masters in Product Design. He also worked as a teaching assistant in the Product Realization Laboratory at Stanford. Rob has worked as a mechanical engineering designer both for startup companies and as an individual consultant.

Rob worked as a consultant to REM on and off from 1997 to 2006, then joined REM full time in 2007. Rob has a strong familiarity with manufacturing processes for product quantities ranging from just a few pieces to millions of units. Rob has a strong aesthetic sense and is particularly good at brainstorming and the development of novel mechanisms.