• Sean Krakiwsky
    President & CEO, Founder

    • Nanalysis is Mr. Krakiwsky’s third tech start-up over a 20 year period, raising over $25M in equity funding for those companies. Previously he founded and built a high performance computing company called Acceleware (TSXV:AXE) providing software solutions to harness the parallel processing capabilities of multi-core GPUs/CPUs for the Electronic Design and Oil & Gas industries. Mr. Krakiwsky has an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary, and was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings Hockey club in 1986 – he played in their farm system for two years, before going back to school in 1990.

    Randall McRae
    CFO

    • Mr. McRae has over 15 years of experience in public and private companies, professional services firms and as a successful entrepreneur. In 2007 he received his BComm in Accounting from the University of Calgary, and in 2010 his Chartered Accountant designation. Mr. McRae later completed the CPA Canada In-Depth Taxation program and was recognized as one of the top nine students nationally in his class. He was most recently a Senior Manager in a large accounting firm and had previously co-founded a successful technology focused professional services firm as well as held a senior role in a publicly traded oilfield services company. In his spare time, he enjoys performing in a local jazz orchestra and spending time with his family.

    Julien Muller
    CTO

    • Mr. Muller has 16+ years of experience in the NMR/MRI technology. After obtaining a diploma in electronic and system engineering from INSA Strasbourg, he started with RS2D in 2004, studying and designing RS2D's first NMR spectrometer solution. From here, he designed a custom MRI product using a superconducting cryogen-free magnet and high field NMR console. In 2018, Mr. Mueller released the 4th generation of NMR/MRI spectrometer, providing the latest FPGA technology to the whole magnetic resonance product profile. He enjoys fishing, hiking, playing music, photography, and sports. He was on the French university basketball championship team in 2002.

    Neal Gallagher
    VP Product Development

    • Mr. Gallagher completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Calgary. He has over 10 years of experience in Computational Electromagnetics, Design for Manufacturability and CNC machining. In his spare time he enjoys Ski touring, Mountain biking, Hockey, and Golf. He is our defending Ping-Pong champ.

    Bruce Lix
    Director of Business Development

    • Mr. Lix spent 14 years managing the National NMR facility in Edmonton for industry and academic clients. He has worked as the president of a business consulting firm, and as staff spectroscopist at a pharmaceutical research firm. He has an MBA, from the University of Alberta, as well as a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Regina. Mr. Lix enjoys designing and building furniture in his woodshop, as well as the occasional round of golf.

    Nick MacKenzie
    VP Sales

    • Mr. MacKenzie completed his BSc and MSc in Molecular Biology from the University of Calgary. He has over 12 years experience in laboratory capital equipment sales, from inside sales to sales management. He has been based at the US office since 2016, driving sales growth, developing sales talent and expanding business channels for the company. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two boys, as well as mountain biking, paddleboarding and playing guitar.

    Dr. Greg McFeetors
    Head of Manufacturing

    • Dr. McFeetors has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary in the Advanced Micro/nano Integration facility where he implemented an NMR-on-a-chip system using micro electromechanical systems (MEMS). He was a Killam Fellowship recipient. He has 15 years of experience designing compact NMR systems, and is also an avid skier, curler and hockey fan.

    Dr. Heather Phillips
    VP Operations

    • Dr. Heather Phillips has a B.Sc. from the University of Calgary and a Ph.D. from Dalhousie University. She has more than 10 years of experience in technology commercialization, strategic intellectual property management and project coordination including with Innovate Calgary and Cenovus Energy Inc. Heather enjoys spending time with her family including two boys.

    Dr. Susanne Riegel
    VP Marketing and Product Manager

    • Dr. Riegel has a M.Sc. from Dalhousie University in main group chemistry and a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary in Organometallic Chemistry. With over 14 years of NMR experience, she has worked in low-field NMR application development and validation with numerous research publications and presentations at international science conferences. She enjoys traveling, photography and being outdoors, whether that be golfing, running, biking or hiking.

  • Chairman of the Board
    Martin Burian
    Managing Director, Investment Banking at RCI Capital Group

    • Mr. Burian holds ICD.D (Institute of Corporate Directors), and Chartered Professional Accountant designations. He has a 30-year career in investment banking, is currently Managing Director at RCI Capital Group and held similar senior positions at Haywood Securities, Bolder Investment Partners and Canaccord Capital. Mr. Burian is an independent member of several other public company boards as well as privately-held Heffel Gallery Limited where he is also part-time CFO.

    Guido Cloetens
    Chairman & CEO of Elysee Development Corp.

    • Since 2012 Mr. Cloetens is the Chairman and CEO of Elysee Development Corp an investment company listed on the TSX-V under the symbol ELC. Mr. Cloetens is a Certified investment advisor (EHSAL Brussels) and holds a degree in Corporate Finance, Investment and financial statement analysis (ULB). After a career of 25 years working for different European banks in wealth management and institutional investing Mr. Cloetens’ focus now is on assisting junior companies in raising capital and creating investor awareness.

    Werner Gartner
    CMA and Technology Investor

    • Mr. Gartner has over 24 years executive/board experience with technology based businesses, including NovAtel Inc., Hemisphere GNSS Inc., 4iiii Innovation Inc, Psyko Audio Labs Inc. and Novariant Inc. He is a member of the A100, an organization composed of technology company founders and entrepreneurs focused on growing the Alberta technology sector. Mr. Gartner received a B.Sc. from Western University in Ontario and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.

    Dr. Michal Okoniewski
    Acceleware, Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder

    • Dr. Okoniewski has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University, Gdansk, is a fellow of IEEE and is a Professor for Electrical and Computer Engineering Department with Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. Michal is a renowned expert in applied electrodynamics and RF/antenna engineering, with a proven history of developing leading-edge scientific solutions for the electronic, medical and energy industries. Michal has pioneered the field of hardware acceleration of computational electromagnetics, authoring over 350 technical publications and patents. His GPU accelerated FDTD solver, for example, revolutionized the engineering of electronic devices and are being applied to the energy industry for the production of heavy oils in unconventional reservoirs.

    Dr. René Lenggenhager
    Co-CEO, bNovate Technologies SA

    • Dr. Lengggenhager is an experienced CEO, Group Head and General Manager with a successful career in leading global technology companies, including at Bruker Biospin, COMET, Mettler Toledo and Siemens. René holds a PhD from ETH in Switzerland and an MBA from University of St. Gallen. In addition, he holds professional certifications from MIT Sloan School in Digital Business Strategy/AI, University of St. Gallen in Swiss Board School, IMD Lausanne in Orchestrating Winning Performance, and INSEAD Fontainebleau in Advanced Industrial Marketing Strategy. During his career of over 35 years, Dr. Lenggenhager has amassed a tremendous amount of experience in all aspects of scaling industrial technology organizations, and now has keen interest in assisting start-up companies create value and grow into successful world-class businesses.

    Sean Krakiwsky
    President & Chief Executive Officer, Founder

    • Nanalysis is Mr. Krakiwsky’s third tech start-up over a 20 year period, raising over $25M in equity funding for those companies. Previously he founded and built a high performance computing company called Acceleware (TSXV:AXE) providing software solutions to harness the parallel processing capabilities of multi-core GPUs/CPUs for the Electronic Design and Oil & Gas industries. Mr. Krakiwsky has an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary, and was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings Hockey club in 1986 – he played in their farm system for two years, before going back to school in 1990.

  • Matt Rosen
    Director of LF-MRI and Hyperpolarized Media Laboratory at Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging; Assistant Professor, Harvard

    • Dr. Matt Rosen, Harvard Medical School: Matt is a physicist, tool-builder, and inventor whose research bridges the spectrum from fundamental physics to applied bio-imaging work in the field of MRI. He has built a career around an ability to identify big-picture needs and respond with creative solutions that span academic disciplines and push the boundaries of innovation. He is Director of Low Field MRI and Hyperpolarized Media Laboratory at Mass General Hospital’s Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. His research group at the Mass General Hospital and Harvard focuses on new methods and tools to enable unconventional approaches to MRI scanner construction. This includes the development of new acquisition strategies for robust ultra-low magnetic field implementations of MRI focused on brain imaging. He has founded five companies: Hyperfine Research, BlinkAI Technologies, Vizma Life Sciences, Intact Data Services, and Q4ML. He is an inventor on more than 25 issued patents. >See his groups website.

    Piotr Starewiz
    CEO of Resonance Research Inc. (RRI)

    • Dr. Piotr Starewiz, CEO of Resonance Research Inc. (RRI): Dr. Starewicz’ has over 35 years of experience in magnetic resonance hardware, software, and algorithms. His company has provided key technology modules to the largest MRI and NMR companies in the world over three decades. His post-academic career began when he joined Siemens Medical Systems in 1984, where he served as Manager of Magnetic Resonance R&D. Recognizing early on that MRI required a much better level of support than other diagnostic modalities, Dr. Starewicz created the Applications Science Group at Siemens, which drove adoption of MRI via enhanced training for physicians and technicians. These two foundational groups at Siemens were largely responsible for the tremendous commercial success of MRI machines in in foundational era of 1.0 T and 1.5 T scanners: The sales of those models reached 750 units/year in early 1990’s, catapulting Siemens into a leadership position in MRI. In 1988 he founded RRI, a company which has grown into a recognized leader in magnetics and electronics for MRI and NMR systems, including for human systems up to 10.5T and pre-clinical (animal) systems up to 21 T. During his career, Dr. Starewicz has published in peer-reviewed journals and has several US and international Patents to his credit. He has a B.Sc. from the Imperial College London, a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, and his post-doctoral work was done at MIT. > See RRI website

    Len Mueller
    Chair and Professor of Chemistry University of California Riverside

    • Dr. Len Mueller, Chair and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside: Len received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Rochester (1988), C.P.G.S. in Natural Science (Chemistry) from the University of Cambridge (1989), and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (1997). From 1996-1998 he was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Len’s research interests include nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as a probe of molecular and biological structure and dynamics. His group has pioneered techniques for improving sensitivity and resolution in NMR spectroscopy and has been at the forefront in the development of integrated techniques in magnetic resonance. While nuclear magnetic resonance, with a particular affinity for solid state NMR, is the centerpiece of his work, he also makes considerable use of first principles computational chemistry and crystallography, and an underlying theme of his group’s work is how NMR fits into a larger framework for constructing and quantitatively testing chemically-detailed models of structure and chemical and conformational dynamics. > See groups website

    Dimitrios Sakellariou
    Professor of Magnetic Resonance KU Leuven

    • Dr. Dimitrios Sakellariou, Professor at KU Leuven: Dimitrios’ group develops and applies magnetic resonance in advanced materials and chemical/biomedical processes, including in the areas of Membrane Separations, Adsorption, Catalysis, and Spectroscopy for Sustainable Solutions (cMACS). Prior to his current appointment he worked as a Principal Investigator, Senior Expert at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-Saclay). His expertise and interests in magnetic resonance span from high-field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) and Imaging (MRI) to bench-top custom-made industrially applied instrumentation. He has been recipient of a Starting ERC grant in 2008 for developing the first spinning-field preclinical MRI scanner, and the Borgia prize for “For outstanding leadership in the development of NMR techniques” in 2004. He is founder of The RE Magnet Studio Ltd. company, co-author of more than 95 publications and co-inventor in more than 13 patents and applications. > See his group’s website