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Nalu Medical
About Us

Nalu Medical, Inc. is a privately held early-stage medical device start-up company. Our team of seasoned entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists are developing the next generation of medical devices.  Our novel devices will address a number of poorly treated clinical conditions.

Our company is located in Carlsbad, California with a vision to modernize and improve the technology  in medical devices, thus improving lives of people.

Our Team
Nalu's Executive Team

Keegan Harper
Chairman of the Board

Mr. Harper is our founder and has served as a member of our board of directors and our Chief Executive Officer and President from November 2014 to April 2020. Since April 2020, Mr. Harper has served as Chairperson of our board of directors. Mr. Harper has also served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the board of directors of Bolt Medical, Inc. since 2019, and prior to that, as Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the board of directors of Cryterion Medical, Inc. from 2016 to 2018. Mr. Harper studied sciences at Texas A&M University.

Earl Fender
President & CEO

Mr. Fender has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since April 2020. Prior to joining Nalu, Mr. Fender served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Vertiflex, Inc., a medical device company, from March 2008 to March 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Fender served as Vice President & General Manager at Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., a cellular technologies company, from 2006 to 2008, and as Worldwide President and in various leadership positions at DePuy Spine, Inc., a spinal implant products company, from 1995 to 2006. Mr. Fender received a B.A. in Business Administration from Thiel College and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development.

Jon Ruais
Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer

Mr. Ruais has served as our Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer since December 2017. Mr. Ruais previously served as Vice President of Global Marketing at Opsens Inc., a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of advanced fiber-optic-based pressure guidewires for interventional cardiology, from September 2016 to December 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Ruais served as Vice President of Marketing at Diadexus, Inc. from September 2015 to June 2016, and as Senior Director of Global Strategic Marketing and Senior Business Unit Director of Commercial Operations at Thoratec Corporation from December 2011 to March 2015, and as Director, Chronic Pain Therapy Marketing and Senior Product Manager at St. Jude Medical, Inc. from August 2006 to December 2011. He received a B.A. in Political Science from George Washington University and an M.B.A. from University of West Florida.

Lee Hartley
Chief Technical Officer

Mr. Hartley co-founded Nalu and has served as our Chief Technical Officer since October 2014. Mr. Hartley previously served as Vice President of Research & Development at Intersection Medical Inc. from January 2014 to October 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Hartley served as the Vice President of Research and Development and held various leadership and engineering positions at Advanced Bionics from 2000 to 2013 (which Boston Scientific Corporation acquired in 2004 and later divested in 2007), and at IBM Research and Manufacturing from 1989 to 2000. Mr. Hartley received his B. Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Queens University and both M. Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Calgary.

Jeff Swiecki
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Swiecki has served as our Chief Financial Officer since May 2020. Mr. Swiecki previously served as Chief Financial Officer at Vertiflex, Inc. from December 2006 to April 2020, as Finance Director & Americas Controller at Invitrogen Corporation from 2004 to 2006 and held various roles at Guidant Corporation from 1997 to 2004. Mr. Swiecki received a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and a Masters of International Business from Pepperdine University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CA, inactive).

Allen Meacham
Chief Business Development Officer

Mr. Meacham has served as our Chief Business Development Officer since September 2020. Mr. Meacham previously held a number of roles at Boston Scientific Corporation from January 2005 to September 2020, most recently as Vice President of US Neuromodulation, from June 2016 to September 2020. Mr. Meacham previously worked for Abbott Diagnostics, Bayer Diagnostics, and GlaxoSmithKline from 1992 to 2005 in various sales, sales management, marketing, and sales training positions. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Lakshmi Narayan Mishra
Vice President of Research & Development

Mr. Mishra has served as our Vice President of Research and Development since May 2015. Mr. Mishra previously worked as Associate Director, Electrical and Firmware Engineering at Illumina, Inc. from June 2014 to May 2015 and held several positions including Senior Director of Systems Engineering at Advanced Bionics from 2001 to 2014. Mr. Mishra received a B.E. in Instrumentation and Electronics from Bangalore University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Bick Sellers
Vice President of Human Resources

Ms. Sellers has served as our Vice President of Human Resources since July 2020. Prior to joining Nalu, Ms. Sellers served as Vice President of Human Resources at Vertiflex, Inc. from September 2017 to May 2020. Ms. Sellers served as Director of Human Resources at GenMark Diagnostics, Inc. from June 2016 to September 2017. Prior to that, Ms. Sellers served as Director of Human Resources at Volcano Corporation from January 2014 to June 2016, and held a number of roles at Hewlett-Packard, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Guidant Corporation from June 2001 to September 2014. Ms. Sellers received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Irvine and an M.B.A. in HR Management and Business Information Systems from Michigan State University.

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2320 Faraday Avenue, Suite #100
Carlsbad, CA 92008
info@nalumed.com
760.448.2360

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