Our Team

The NuPulse Team
Meet our talented, experienced team dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with chronic heart disease.
CEO
Douglas Altschuler
VP - Operations & Development
Ryan McCormick
CTO
Guru Giridharan
VP - Electrical
Mark Parreira
VP - Software
Arjun Chinta
VP - Mechanical
Peeyush Gadekar
Senior Director Systems & Test Engineering
Karthik Sekar
Principle Software Engineer
Harish Kothanda Raman
Principle Engineer
Robert Hall
Senior Test Engineer
Greg Scopel
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Madiha Jamal
Engineer - Mechanical
Digvijay Patil
Test Engineer
Chandra Shah
Test Engineer
Melanie Cohen
Engineer - R&D
Anand Sivaramakrishnan
Engineer - R&D
Addie Vear
Engineer - R&D
Japen Mehta
Senior Software Consultant
Doug Ivers
Intern - Test Engineer
Charlie Kale
Intern - Mechanical
Emma Tyler
Intern - R&D
Emma Lin
Senior Consultant Clinical
Don Severyn
Our Scientific Advisory Board
SAB members
We have a world class Scientific Advisory Board. Every one of our members is clinically active and understands the acute need for the Voyage device.
Our Board is represented not only by the major institutions in the large cities but also by community physicians who will play a critical role in the commercialization of the Voyage device by helping to bring it to the thousands of patients under the care of community hospitals.
Jacob Schroder M.D.
Sean Pinney M.D.
Reshad Garan M.D.
  • Chair of Cardiology
  • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Cleveland Clinic Florida
Jerry Estep M.D.
  • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Medical Director of Mechanical Support
  • Director of Heart Failure Research
  • University of Minnesota
Rebecca Cogswell M.D.
  • Professor of Surgery
  • Director - Heart and Vascular Center
  • University of Chicago Medicine
Cynthia Chow
  • Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board
Valluvan Jeevanandam M.D.
  • Associate Professor of Medicine Section Chief
  • Advanced Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplant, and Mechanical Circulatory Support
  • Department of Medicine
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
  • Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) the Phillip J. and Harriet L. Goodhart Chair of Cardiology at Mount Sinai
  • Editorial Board Journal of the American College of Cardiology, JACC Heart Failure
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director - Heart Transplant Program, Co-director, Cardiothoracic Surgery ICU Division
  • Duke Medical Center
Would like to Join our Team?
If you are interested in working for a cardiovascular, clinical stage, medical device company, please send your resume and cover letter to