About Us

President and CEO

Thomas Little, CPA, ICD.D, is an accomplished executive with over 39 years of experience leading transformational change across organizations. Mr. Little served as the Executive Vice President of Bell Canada and President of Bell Business Markets, where he successfully implemented strategies to enhance the client experience by integrating wireless and wireline business groups and transforming the client experience.  Prior to that, he helped build and operate successful Canadian technology companies, including as the President and CEO of VisualSonics Inc. and as EVP and GM at Dicom DICOM Information Technologies, which both yielded successful liquidity events.  Mr. Little is a Chartered Professional Accountant and holds an Honours Business Administration degree from the IVEY School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Additionally, he has obtained an ICD.D designation from the Rotman Directors Education Program. He is currently a director at AIMIA, Rise Asset Development, Soundbite Medical Solutions and an advisory board member of Curait Medical. 

Founder and CTO

Martin holds a B. Eng. from McGill University and both a Master's and a Doctorate in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. He is currently a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada where he heads the Shock Wave Research Laboratory. Martin is the originator of several technology development projects in bio-engineering and micro-engineering, based on gas dynamics and shock wave physics. He is the holder of numerous patents for biomedical devices and sensor systems for aerospace applications and at the origin of three start-ups exploiting these technologies.

Vice President, Product Development

Matt Olson has over twenty-three years of experience in the medical device industry, with seventeen of those years in leadership roles at successful emerging technology companies. He has held roles in R&D, Operations, Manufacturing, and Clinical Training across the span of his career. Most recently, Matt was the Vice-President of Engineering & Operations at NexGen Medical Systems. He also served as Vice-President of Research & Development at Bridgepoint Medical when acquired by Boston Scientific and Medtronic in 2012, and was Director of Operations at Teramed, acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2001. Additionally, he has held several management positions at American Medical Systems (AMS) and Boston Scientific. Matt is listed as an inventor on twenty-two medical device patents. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Dakota State University.

Vice President, Marketing

Mrs. Suzanne Wallace has more than 10 years of experience with medical devices in various roles across marketing, education, and medical affairs. Previously, she served as Senior Director of Clinical Marketing for Vesper Medical overseeing all marketing activities for the pre-commercial start-up company based in Pennsylvania. Prior to that, Suzanne was the Director of Medical Education and Scientific Communications at Shockwave Medical where she had dual medical affairs and marketing responsibilities for their global portfolio of products. Earlier in her career, Mrs. Wallace was the Director of Field Marketing and Education in Medtronic’s Mechanical Circulatory Support Business (Heartware, Inc.) where she was responsible for all aspects of commercial marketing and customer training programs. Mrs. Wallace is a board certified Nurse Practitioner with a post-master’s degree in family practice and a Master of Science in nursing with a specialization in emergency and critical care. She spent the majority of her clinical career at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center caring for patients with cardiovascular disease. She received her B.S.N from Messiah College and both her M.S.N and Post-Master’s Certificate from Widener University.