About | D-Rev

D-Rev exists to design and deliver medical technologies that close the quality healthcare gap for under-served populations.

Our products are:

World-Class

D-Rev designs products that are on par or better than the best devices on the market

Market-Driven

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

User-Obsessed

When we talk about users we are talking about a product's end users, and every person along the supply 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 address health inequities at scale.

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

As D-Rev’s CEO, Krista leads the organization, establishes D-Rev’s direction and vision and ensures that D-Rev impacts the health and well-being of everyone we serve. Krista holds a B.E. from Vanderbilt University as well as a M.S.E. (Product Design), M.S.M.E., and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and she has driven innovation in product design, engineering, and international development for more than 15 years. Her doctoral work was among the first to focus on engineering and social entrepreneurship in less industrialized economies. Before joining D-Rev, Krista was a Diplomacy Fellow in the U.S. Department of State’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and then worked as a Design Engineer for KickStart International in Nairobi, Kenya. 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. Krista has been a Rainer Arnhold Fellow and a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow, and she has been featured in the New York Times.

Krista is originally from Halifax, Canada. She joined D-Rev because she loves combining technical engineering and good design to solve difficult problems, and wanted to help D-Rev take that a step further through emphasizing impact. Her favorite aspect of her job is meeting people, whether it’s global health leaders or doctors and nurses working hard in the hospitals that use D-Rev’s products. When Krista isn’t flying from one meeting to another, she’s hanging out with her kids and planning fun activities with her family.

AJ Viola

Director of Operations & Strategy

As D-Rev’s Director of Operations and Strategy, AJ manages D-Rev’s budget and financials and helps construct strategies for product development and growth. He holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Before D-Rev, AJ was a Product and Operations Manager at McMaster-Carr. Prior to that, AJ assessed business development strategies and performed quantitative analyses to maximize the effectiveness of fundraising resources at United Way Silicon Valley. His varied involvement with D-Rev provides him with a well-rounded perspective on our growth: he originally analyzed the South American market for Brilliance, and then joined the team fulltime as a Newborn Health Product Manager, helping to launch Brilliance Pro and thoughtfully building D-Rev’s business model.

Originally from New York, AJ is fascinated by using traditional business models to enact social change and improvement, which is what drew him to D-Rev’s market- and user-driven model. His favorite part of his job at D-Rev is working with smart, engaged, and thoughtful people. When AJ isn’t coming up with budget plans, he surfs, sails, and spends quality time with friends.

Sara Tollefson

Director of Impact

As Director of Impact, Sara monitors and reports on D-Rev’s impact to help D-Rev’s team and its partners determine whether we are achieving intended goals and project our effectiveness. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. Before D-Rev, Sara was a litigator at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York, where she led efforts at both the Legal Aid Society’s Community Development Program and the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Sara has also worked in the nonprofit sector both in the US and abroad. Her experience has equipped her with a wide range of skills to inform her work at D-Rev.

Growing up in Seattle, Sara’s childhood dream was to be a mechanical engineer who could make flying cars. Now, she does the next best thing and works remotely for D-Rev from her native city. She was drawn to D-Rev because of its user-centered model and emphasis on constant improvement. Her favorite part of her job is communicating D-Rev’s impact through clear and compelling data visualizations. When Sara isn’t analyzing D-Rev’s data, she works on household projects and dances with her three-year-old daughter.

Vinesh Narayan

Director of New Product Development

As Senior Product Development Manager, Vin brainstorms leads D-Rev’s product development and tests products for technological, engineering, and marketing viability. Vin’s expertise is in product design and marketing. He holds a B.S.M.E. from the University of Illinois and a M.S.E. from Stanford University. At Stanford, Vin was instrumental in bringing the JaipurKnee–created for a class by Stanford students–to market at the Jaipur Foot Clinic in India. He introduced the model to D-Rev when he joined our team in 2011. At D-Rev, Vin oversaw the development, manufacturing, distributing, and marketing of what became D-Rev’s ReMotion Knee, including monitoring field trials, marketing, and scaling the product. He provides D-Rev with a valuable combination of both experience in biomedical design and mechanical engineering, as well as expertise in product distribution and marketing.

Vin is originally from Chicago. His interest in product design and distribution led him to D-Rev, where he found the opportunity to develop those skills in a socially impactful way. His favorite part of his job is breaking down complex problems with a well-equipped and motivated team. When Vin isn’t brainstorming D-Rev’s next big product, he rock-climbs, skis, and woodworks.

Daniel Wald

Director of Sales

As Director of Sales, Daniel manages D-Rev’s sales teams, commercial partnerships, and market strategies around the globe. He has over 10 years of experience with launching and operating consumer product businesses in emerging markets and has lived in East Africa and the Middle East. Daniel focuses on the commercial viability of the product portfolio and helps ensure that products designed by D-Rev reach as many target users as possible. Daniel is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Urban Planning. Prior to joining D-Rev, Daniel worked at Envirofit International and BioLite in the renewable energy sector selling clean cookstoves and solar systems to off-grid communities.

Daniel is originally from Dallas, Texas. He is passionate about the power of technology to empower people to live healthier, fuller lives. Daniel is drawn to start-ups where he is able to bring products from inception to scale. Daniel’s favorite part of working at D-Rev is working with collaborative and supportive colleagues unified in a mission of saving lives. When Daniel isn’t developing strategies for scaling D-Rev’s products, he enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, going on bike rides, or cooking with ingredients he collects while traveling.

Dina To

Donor Relations Manager

As Donor Relations Manager, Dina cares for our existing donor and partner relationships and fosters new ones. She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Hastings College of the Law, and brings a uniquely qualified perspective to the D-Rev team. Dina has extensive experience with government and related investigations, having been both a Federal Prosecutor for the Department of Justice and a Legal Director at Yahoo! specializing in user-product abuse issues. She was also an Adjunct Professor of Legal Research and Writing and Moot Court for the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Dina is compelled by social impact efforts, and was drawn to D-Rev because of its startup culture: a small, efficient team creating actual, big impact. Because her first child had jaundice as a newborn, she feels a personal connection to D-Rev’s products, and is excited about the opportunity to provide others access to the same caliber of health care she and her son experienced. Dina’s favorite aspect of her job is constantly learning how to better implement donors’ philanthropic missions. When Dina isn’t working with our philanthropic partners, she tries out new Bay Area restaurants with her three children.

Connie Ng

Studio Coordinator

As D-Rev’s Studio Coordinator, Connie is the bedrock of our San Francisco-based team. She is responsible for supporting our product design teams, organizational culture, administration systems, and fund development. She holds a B.A. from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining D-Rev, Connie was an Operations Coordinator at the Shih Yu-Lang Central YMCA in the Tenderloin community. Before that, she lived and worked abroad in both Germany and Belgium for the Department of Defense creating programming for military youth in their school age and child development centers.

Connie is originally from Cupertino, California and enjoys bridging networks and communities, especially to empower those in need. She chose D-Rev because she sees the organization as the culmination of non-profit work and technology that she loves. What impresses Connie about D-Rev is the value placed on the user and the organizations dedication to creating products that achieve meaningful social impact. When Connie isn’t supporting the teams at D-Rev, she enjoys making linocuts, exploring new food recipes, and dabbles in video editing.

Rob Weiss

ReMotion Product Manager

As D-Rev’s ReMotion Product Manager, Rob handles sales, logistics, and marketing distribution functions, and manages the business aspect of D-Rev’s scaling and growth. He holds a B.A. from Princeton University, and has studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in China as well as the Harvard Kennedy School. After college, Rob worked on climate change and clean energy policy for the World Resources Institute in Washington D.C. He then worked for Essmart Global in Cambodia, India, and Timor-Leste, helping start-up social enterprises distribute beneficial and affordable technologies to rural village customers. Immediately before D-Rev, Rob worked on small-scale energy engineering projects with D-Lab (El Salvador) and Mercy Corps (Timor-Leste).

Originally from Delaware, Rob joined the D-Rev team as an intern and stayed both for the engaging work environment and for D-Rev’s mission. His favorite aspect of his job is the emphasis D-Rev places on both individual and company-wide growth, improvement, and expansion. When Rob isn’t hard at work in the D-Rev office, he plays basketball, practices jiu jitsu, and plays the jazz saxophone.

Shaelee Huck

ReMotion Sales & Marketing Associate

As D-Rev’s Sales & Marketing Associate, Shaelee aims to expand D-Rev’s reach on the ReMotion team. She holds a B.A. from University of Colorado at Boulder and received her M.A. from Saint Mary’s University of MN. As an undergraduate, Shaelee studied abroad in East Africa and later focused on sustainable initiatives in the region by interning and volunteering with multiple organizations. She has a unique mix of international development experience and tech sales.

Shaelee grew up in Louisville, Colorado and after a two-year adventure in Australia, she is back in Colorado where she works remotely for D-Rev. She was inspired by D-Rev’s impact-driven mission and is eager to align with partners alike to reach more patients in need. Shaelee enjoys working with D-Rev’s agile team and learning how ReMotion improves lives around the world. When she’s not supporting sales for ReMotion, Shaelee loves trekking up to the mountains to hike and snowshoe and finding any excuse to see a concert at Red Rocks.

Casey Trubo

Senior Product Development Engineer

As D-Rev’s Senior Product Development Engineer, Casey plans, develops, refines, and executes D-Rev’s product development and project management processes. He also consistently determines product users’ needs through communication with our partners. He holds a B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis. Casey brings over 7 years of experience in medical device commercialization to D-Rev: before joining our team he worked at Stryker Endoscopy, where he started out in RA/QA. He then spent 5 years in R&D as a Design Engineer and a Project Manager, with a focus in handheld instruments developed to optimize usability. Casey’s final position at Stryker was in R&D management, guiding a team of mechanical engineers.

Casey is originally from San Luis Obispo, California, and he joined D-Rev to apply his skill set to a global issue he observed firsthand. An avid traveler, Casey noted a global gap between what many hospital patients needed and what they had access to, and works to close that gap. His favorite part about his job is that it’s impact-driven: everyone works toward creating lasting impact and doing so in the best way possible. When Casey isn’t managing D-Rev’s products, he surfs, plays poker, and watches the latest sci-fi TV shows.

Robin Parrish

Design Engineer

As D-Rev’s Design Engineer, Robin does reiterative design and testing to improve D-Rev’s existing suite of products, and prototypes new products for target low-income markets. She holds a B.S.E. from University of California, Berkeley, and gained expertise through her past work designing and manufacturing user-driven medical devices. As an undergraduate, Robin collaborated with bioengineering students and clinicians to create an innovative new mobility assistive device. Most recently, Robin led medical device design and test engineering as a Senior Research & Development Engineer at the Taylor Collaboration. She contributes to D-Rev’s expertise through her proficiency in prototyping, manufacturing, and designing safe and efficient medical technology.

Originally from Carlsbad, CA, Robin’s love for her work is driven by a desire to create state-of-the-art products for people overlooked by the market. She chose D-Rev for its user-focused model and emphasis on documenting social change through measurable impact numbers. Her favorite aspect of her job is working with a high-energy team that prioritizes impact. Robin balances out her hours 3D-printing iterations of D-Rev technology by cooking, reading, and spending time in nature.

Kelly Blank

Graphic Designer

As D-Rev’s Graphic Designer, Kelly designs and manages D-Rev’s website and packages a wide variety of collateral materials, including product information sheets, event posters, product packaging, and annual reports. Kelly holds a B.F.A. from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Kelly is originally from Cupertino, California, and has lived in the Bay Area for most of her life. She started working as D-Rev’s Graphic Designer immediately after college, fueled by a lifelong passion for design and technology. She joined D-Rev because it provides her with the chance to do design work that leads to actual impact. Her favorite aspect of working at D-Rev is that she is afforded the autonomy and trust to create what she wants, in a collaborative and warm work environment. When Kelly isn’t designing and managing D-Rev’s graphics, she explores the world of adult coloring books and plays video games.

Rachel Yost

Executive Assistant

As Executive Assistant, Rachel assists our CEO, Krista Donaldson, with all administrative tasks, including email and calendar management. She also runs operational tasks, such as Payroll and external communications. She holds an MSc in Professional Human Resources from BBP Business University, London.

Before coming to D-Rev, Rachel worked as an HR Operations Manager for a private equity company in London. Prior to that, she was an HR Shared Services Manager for the UK & Ireland at a management consultancy company. Originally from Cambridge, England, Rachel enjoys running, yoga, hiking, experimenting with Indian food, and world travel. Rachel’s favorite part of her job is being able to support D-Rev’s mission.

Board of Directors

Bill Unger

Chairman of the Board

With 30 years in the venture industry, helping new ideas become significant companies, and the last 15 years learning what works, and what does not work, to change lives in the developing world, D-Rev seems the ideal opportunity to marry world class product design capability with pragmatic, market driven solutions to solve problems that can change the lives of millions.

After graduating from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Bill began his career as a Special Education teacher, then worked in Community Mental Health programs before becoming an Executive Recruiter and then co-founding his own firm. He joined Mayfield Fund in 1983. He served in leadership positions on many corporate and not-for profit boards, and continues to advise early stage technology companies.

Representative investments include Sandisk (SNDK), Silicon Architects (acquired by Synopsys (SNPS), Calico Commerce (acquired by Oracle(ORCL), Newport Communications (acquired by Broadcom (BRCM), Stream Machine (acquired by Cirrus Logic (CRUS), Simplex Solutions (acquired by Cadence (CDN), Excess Bandwidth Corporation (acquired by Virata (VRTA), Verplex Design Systems (acquired by Cadence (CDN), Nextest (acquired by Teradyne (TER), Sabio Labs (acquired by Magma (LAVA) and Berkeley Design Automation (acquired by Mentor Graphics (MENT).

Bill’s current philanthropic activities include; Board member of CARE USA, CARE Enterprises LLC, Microvest, D-Rev, and Wildlife Conservation Network, and he serves on the Deans’ Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Other organizations he has served include; past board chair of the Career Action Center, YouthNoise, and former Vice Chairman of the Anita Borg Institute. He was an advisor to the Dean of Engineering of University of California at Berkeley, a member of The Philanthropy Workshop and Legacy Ventures, and is an active supporter of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2).

Jenn Buechel

Board Member

Jenn’s commitment to D-Rev’s mission stems from her interest in integrating business principles with non-profit missions in innovative ways. Previously, Jenn has participated in a variety of roles for organizations that enable under-served populations, such as the Toronto Daily Bread Food Bank, Big Sisters, and I Have a Dream.

Throughout her professional, for-profit career, Jenn has sought to contribute to organizations with a social purpose and mission. She brings significant operations and product management experience from companies such as Procter and Gamble, McKinsey, Genentech and, most recently, Guardant Health.

Jenn holds a BSc App Sci in Chemical Engineering and a BA in English from Queen’s University in Canada, as well as an MBA and an MS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children.

Stephanie Dodson

Managing Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Stephanie Dodson believes in supporting organizations that have the capacity and leadership to truly solve problems and believes that D-Rev’s market based approach and strong leadership make it an organization with great potential. Stephanie has been a Managing Director at Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation since September 2014. Draper Richards Kaplan believes that with early funding and rigorous support, exceptional social entrepreneurs, tackling some of the world’s most complex problems, can make the world a better place.

Prior to DRK, Stephanie was a fellow with Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative and was consulting to several different philanthropic and social entrepreneurial ventures. She currently serves on the boards of RefugePoint, Year Up, Project Healthy Children and Partners In Health.

Stephanie co-founded three social ventures: Strategic Grant Partners, a venture capital model of consulting and philanthropic investing, works to create positive futures for children and families in Massachusetts and nationally; Project Healthy Children partners with developing countries to save lives through sustainable and measurable methods of food fortification and supplementation; and the Maranyundo Initiative, a boarding school for girls achieving the highest academic performance in the country and a teacher enrichment program in Rwanda. Stephanie also worked in the computer industry at Tandem Computers.

She holds a BA in English and Environmental Studies from Oberlin College and an MBA from Stanford University and lives in Boston.

Tony MacDonald

Board Member

Tony’s interest in D-Rev stems from his experience traveling in developing countries, his passion for improving impact with market supported interventions and his experience in his most recent role as CFO of Samasource Inc.

Having spent 20 plus years in various financial and strategic roles in the corporate sector—with Ernst & Young, Levi Strauss, and Oracle—he transitioned to the non-profit world to become the CFO of Samasource Inc. in 2014. Samasource is a 501(c)(3) organization providing sustainable poverty alleviation by channelling digital work from Fortune 500 companies to disadvantaged youth in developing countries. He brings a wealth of operational and financial knowledge to D-Rev from his corporate experience as well as first hand experience leveraging market based approaches for positive social change from his role at Samasource.

Tony holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University in Canada, and is a Chartered Public Accountant. Originally from Winnipeg, Canada, he remains an avid ice hockey player and skier. He is married with two children and lives in San Francisco.

Minette Norman

Board Member

Minette is Vice President of Engineering Practice at Autodesk, charged with transforming engineering and leading a global team of 1,200 people. She chose to serve on D-Rev’s board because she believes D-Rev’s ability to address meaningful problems on a global scale. Her extensive experience developing software at Autodesk, one of D-Rev’s valued partners, uniquely positions her to guide D-Rev’s product development and revenue growth strategy. As a Board Member she enjoys applying her 30 years of business experience to the field of medical technology.

At Autodesk, Minette leads the company’s “radical collaboration” program that breaks down the silos found across the company’s 100-plus products. In this role, she transforms engineering culture through initiatives that foster collaboration, open sourcing and engagement. Prior to this, Minette led the Localization team at Autodesk, where she transformed the Localization department into an industry leader in machine translation and translation automation. Having managed large, global teams for many years, she brings particular experience in leadership to D-Rev’s board.

Minette grew up in Oakland, California, and holds a B.A. in Drama and French from Tufts. When she isn’t working hard at Autodesk or advising D-Rev’s team, Minette spends her time hiking, knitting, reading, and enjoying time with friends and family.

Shally Shanker, CFA

Board Observer

Shally Shanker is Manager of Mission Investing for The Schmidt Family Foundation. She is responsible for the Foundation’s portfolio of program-related investments (PRI) and mission-related investments (MRI). In that role Shally works with a team of content experts to identify, structure, and manage investments that are consistent with the Foundation’s mission and return profile. The portfolio seeks to create environmental and social impact in the areas of agriculture, food, water, waste reduction, energy, health, access to finance, and human rights.

Shally has over 20 years of investment management experience structuring and managing global portfolios of debt and equity instruments. Previously, she was the Investment Officer at The Schmidt Family Foundation and Vice President of Investments at Hillspire, LLC. She graduated with an MBA/M.S. in Finance from Boston College and she is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

In addition to her work in investing, Shally also worked with Stanford’s Prevention Research Center at the Stanford School of Medicine where she helped develop and test a program to bring evidence-based children’s health and obesity prevention strategies to low-income communities in the South Bay.

Board of Advisors

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, Newborn Health

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.

Vik Jammalamadaka

D-Rev Advisor

Vik has always been inspired by the potential for disruptive technologies to transform global health. He began his career as a management consultant, working side-by-side with top hospital executives to diagnose and fix operational inefficiencies within large healthcare systems. He then managed a nationwide sales team and scaled marketing operations as a member of the founding team of a digital health startup focused on improving hospital communication. Hungry for a new outlet to sharpen his data skills, Vik now works in an analytics role at LinkedIn, uncovering data-driven sales insights within the company’s top business line.

As a member of D-Rev’s Remotion knee project, Vik built and currently maintains a custom SQL database to track and analyze the extensive impact data collected by the D-Rev team. Extremely passionate about the D-Rev mission, he will be working to expand the database to D-Rev’s other projects.

Mira Wijayanti

D-Rev Advisor

Mira is an Associate with the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a venture philanthropy firm supporting high-impact, high-growth social ventures. She is responsible for sourcing and selecting Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneurs and supporting portfolio management activities. Mira was previously an Assistant Vice President in the Enterprise Risk division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and has experience working with multilateral organizations in Uganda and Indonesia. She first encountered D-Rev as a student in Design for Extreme Affordability at Stanford’s d-school and is excited to continue supporting D-Rev’s work at the intersection of technology and social impact. She graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Wesleyan University and received her M.A. in International Policy from Stanford University.

Bob Fan

D-Rev Advisor

Bob is a marketing and business executive with experience in medical device, non-profit, and consumer packaged goods. He has deep expertise in all aspects of medical device marketing working at companies like Covidien, ev3, and Boston Scientific on strategy, product development, launch and commercialization. Bob is especially passionate about listening to and truly understanding the customer, to identify unmet needs and bring the right products and solutions to market.

While at Covidien, Bob lived in China for two years, helping establish a Product Marketing group to work with Covidien’s new Shanghai R&D center to develop and commercialize products specifically for Emerging Markets.

Bob’s passion for working with people in low-resource settings comes from work with small-scale coffee farmers in Nicaragua and Peru through Green Mountain Coffee Roasters’ Fair Trade Organic coffee program and from personal travel to places like Nepal and Cambodia.

Bob is delighted to combine his medical device background, business experience, and passion for helping those in need by advising D-Rev on the ReMotion project.