Michael Favet

CEO & Board Member
Michael Favet

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Michael Favet has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since July 2019 and has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2016. From June2016 to July 2019, Mr. Favet served as Managing Director at KCK-US, Inc., an investment fund, where he was responsible for strategic investments and advising portfolio companies, and also acted as our Chief Commercial Officer from October 2018 to July 2019. From 2015 to January 2017, Mr. Favet served as Chief Operating Officer at Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics, Inc., a medical device company, where he was responsible for overseeing operations. From 2012 to 2015, Mr. Favet served as Chief Operating Officer at Sonitus Medical Inc., a medical device company. Mr. Favet earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota. We believe that Mr. Favet’s business expertise and his daily insight into corporate matters as our President and Chief Executive Officer qualify him to serve on our board of directors.

Martha Morrell, MD

Chief Medical Officer
Martha Morrell, MD

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Martha Morrell, M.D. has served as our Chief Medical Officer since 2004. Dr. Morrell has also served as a Clinical Professor of Neurology at Stanford University since 2004. Dr. Morrell previously served as the Caitlin Tynan Doyle Professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia University and Director of the Columbia Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital from 1998 to 2004. Prior to that, Dr. Morrell served on the faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine and as the Director of the Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Center from 1990 to 1998. Dr. Morrell earned a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.D. from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Rebecca Kuhn

CFO, Vice President, Finance & Administration
Rebecca Kuhn

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Rebecca Kuhn has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance and Administration since 2000. From 1992 to 2000, Ms. Kuhn served in roles of increasing responsibility, most recently as Treasurer and Director of Finance at Heartport, Inc., a medical device company. Ms. Kuhn earned a B.S. in Business Administration from The Ohio State University and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Irina Ridley

Chief Legal Officer
Irina Ridley

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Irina Ridley has served as our Chief Legal Officer since November 2020. Ms. Ridley previously served as Chief Counsel at Myriad Genetics, Inc., a precision medicine company, from August 2018 to November 2020, where she was responsible for corporate legal matters. From August 2016 to August 2018, she served as Associate General Counsel and Privacy Officer at Counsyl Inc., a genetic testing company, where prior to its acquisition by Myriad Genetics, Inc., she was responsible for corporate legal matters. From2014 to August 2016, she served as Compliance and Privacy Officer at Omada Health, a digital health company, where she was the first attorney and was responsible for building out Omada Health’s compliance and privacy programs. Prior to that, from 2011 to 2014, Ms. Ridley worked in management consulting, serving in roles of increasing responsibility at Deloitte Tax, LLP, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ms. Ridley has served on the Alumni Board of Directors of Albany Law School since July 2016 and previously served on the Board of Directors of Women in Security and Privacy from May 2016 to October 2017. Ms. Ridley earned a B.S. and an M.B.A. from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a J.D. from Albany Law School of Union University.

Kelley Nicholas

Vice President of Sales
Kelley Nicholas

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Kelley Nicholas has served as our Vice President of Sales since May 2023. Ms. Nicholas previously served as the Global Vice President of Marketing and Commercial Operations at Hologic, a medical device company, from June 2021-February 2023, where she was responsible for leading all functions of marketing, commercial operations and training, professional education, and communications for the Breast and Skeletal Health Division. In this role Ms. Nicholas led the development of the 5-year business strategic plan and implementation of commercial strategies to drive growth and market expansion in new and existing businesses globally. From 2020-2021, Ms. Nicholas served as the Global Vice President of Commercial for Thermo Fisher Scientific, a medical device company, where she was responsible for leading a global commercial team and led the re-design of the go-to-market strategy. Prior to that, from 2014-2020, Ms. Nicholas served in sales leadership roles at Medtronic across various business units, inclusive of neurosurgery, cardiac and vascular surgery, and diabetes. From 2008-2014, Ms. Nicholas served in roles of increasing responsibility in sales leadership at Baxter, a medical device company, in their Biosurgery Business Unit. Mrs. Nicholas earned her B.S. in Health Science / Physical Therapy from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and her MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Irene Thomas

Vice President, Human Resources
Irene Thomas

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Irene Thomas has served as our Vice President, Human Resources since May 2019, prior to which Ms. Thomas served in various Human Resources roles since joining NeuroPace in 2000. Ms. Thomas also serves on the Board of Directors for the San Carlos Charter Learning Center. Ms. Thomas previously served as a human resources consultant at various pharmaceutical and medical device companies from 1999 to 2000. Prior to that, Ms. Thomas served as Manager of Human Resources at Heartport Inc., a medical device company, and as Manager of Human Resources at Aviron and Gilead Sciences, both pharmaceutical companies. Ms. Thomas earned her B.A. from Sonoma State University.

Cairn Seale

Vice President, Clinical Research
Cairn Seale

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Cairn Seale has served as our Vice President, Clinical Research since January 2021. Ms. Seale previously served in various roles of increasing responsibility, from Trial Manager to Senior Director of Clinical and Research since joining NeuroPace in 2002. Prior to that, Ms. Seale served as Manager of Clinical Research at the Stanford Epilepsy Center, from 1994 to2000 and at Columbia University Department of Neurology from 1998 to 2000. Ms. Seale earned a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.S. from Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dylan St. John

Vice President, Manufacturing & Commercial Operations
Dylan St. John

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Dylan St. John has served as our Vice President, Manufacturing and Commercial Operations since January 2021, prior to which, Mr. St. John served in various roles, including Business Process Excellence and Regulatory Labeling since joining NeuroPace in 2013. Mr. St. John previously served as New Product Introduction (NPI) Program Manager at Calibra Medical, a Johnson & Johnson company, a medical device company, from 2012 to 2013. Prior to that, Mr. St. John served as Sr. Manager of Global Packaging and Labeling at LifeScan, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, a medical device company, from 2007 to 2012. Mr. St. John earned a B.S. from San Jose State University.

Timothy Proulx

Vice President, Product Development
Timothy Proulx

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Timothy Proulx has served as our Vice President, Product Development since June 2021. Prior to joining Neuropace, Mr. Proulx served as Sr. Director Engineering with Neurolutions, a medical device company, where he led development of a brain-computer interface (BCI) rehabilitation device for chronic stroke. From 2017 to 2019, Mr. Proulx served as Vice President R&D at Sonitus Technologies, a communications company in the industrial and military markets. Prior to that, from 2015 to 2017, Mr. Proulx served as Vice President of Engineering at Zonare Medical / Mindray NA, an ultrasound imaging company, and from 2009 to 2015 as Vice President R&D at Sonitus Medical, a medical device company. Mr. Proulx earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Stacey Ellul

Vice President, Quality & Regulatory Affairs
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Stacey Ellul has served as our Vice President, Quality & Regulatory Affairs since December 2022. Ms. Ellul previously served as Vice President of Regulatory Science & Communications for the Diabetes Operating Unit of Medtronic, a medical device company, from 2019 to 2022. Since 2003, Ms. Ellul has held positions of increasing responsibility in medical device companies in both regulatory, clinical/ medical affairs, and quality. Prior to joining the medical device industry Ms. Ellul was a critical care nurse. She earned a DipApp Sc (Nursing), GradDip (Management) and an MBA from the University of South Australia, Australia.

 

Further information can be found on her LinkedIn page. https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-ellul-522ab/