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Meet the iCardio.ai team.

We are a team of passionate tech visionaries, eager to challenge the impossible.

Founding Team

Joseph Sokol

Founder

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Joseph is a serial technology entrepreneur and the chief visionary and founder of iCardio.ai. With expertise in leading startups from nascent stages to successful exits, Joseph previously founded OlehPay, an international banking platform. He enjoys a multifaceted role at iCardio.ai, participating in technical research and development initiatives and strategic company development. As a technical founder, Joseph embodies the spirit of innovation with a deep commitment to making a positive impact in this world through deep tech.

Dr. Aakriti Gupta

MD, MSc

Co-founder & Chief Medical Advisor

Aakriti is the Co-founder and Chief Medical Advisor of iCardio.ai. She is an expert in structural heart disease interventions, having trained from Yale, Columbia and Cedars-Sinai. She is a luminary in the field of cardiology, having authored over 80 scientific publications in leading medical journals including the Lancet, Nature Medicine, JAMA, JACC and Circulation. She previously co-founded Heartbeat Health, Inc, a cardiology telehealth startup that raised a $20M Series B in 2021.

Dr. Roman Sandler

PhD

Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Sandler is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of iCardio.ai. Dr. Sandler heads AI research and implementation, data science, and machine learning, and is responsible for clinical and academic institution collaborations, regulatory affairs, clinical research, and grants. Before iCardio.ai, Roman Sandler was a founding member of Kernel, a neurotech company that recently raised $53M in 2020. Roman holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and has over a decade of experience being part of and leading ML teams in the biotech and defense space.

Advisory

Dr. Thomas Biggs

Medical Advisor

Dr. Thomas Biggs serves as a clinical and commercial advisor of iCardio.ai. Dr. Biggs has been a practicing cardiologist for over 20 years and served as president of the United Heart and Vascular Clinic.

Dr. Joshua Penn

MD, FACC, FASE

Founding Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Joshua Penn is a co-founder of iCardio.ai and the founder and president of the iCardio Corporation, a mobile medical diagnostics platform for cardiovascular imaging.

Dr. David Yakobi

Medical Advisor

Dr. David Yakobi, MD is a board-certified cardiac surgeon with vast expertise in structural heart disease, interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, intensive care, emergency medicine, cardiovascular physiology, and hemodynamics, and acts as a medical consultant to major startup companies in the healthcare industry.

Dr. Benjamin Wessler

MD, FACC

Medical Advisor

Benjamin Wessler MD, FACC is a cardiologist and Director of the Heart Valve Center at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Wessler's research focuses on decision making for advanced cardiac procedures, risk prediction for patients with cardiovascular disease, and novel methods for echocardiogram interpretation.

Dr. Gabriel Shaya

MD, FACC, FASE

Medical Advisor

Dr. Gabriel Shaya is a clinical cardiologist and faculty appointee at WellSpan York Hospital and WellSpan Heart and Vascular Center, a high-volume tertiary care center serving south central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. Dr. Shaya has academic and clinical expertise in multimodality cardiovascular imaging, structural heart disease, and intraprocedural echocardiography.

Min-Yi Shih

PHD

Strategic Advisor

Dr. Min-Yi Shih is a dynamic technologist, business executive, and experienced advisor with a background in cutting-edge technologies. With significant experience as an executive in R&D, defense, medical, and communication equipment industries, Dr. Shih excels in developing strategies for scaling, operations, manufacturing, supply chain management, and technology/product development.

Judith Buckland

MBA, RDCS, FASE

Head of Clinical Applications & Ultrasound Annotations

Judith is the founder and president of CardioServ. Judith has committed her career to inspiring excellence in imaging internationally, through education and accreditation, and is responsible for overseeing clinical annotations for iCardio.ai's automated ultrasound quantification product line.

Contributors

Daniel Sokol

MSC

VP of Engineering

Aerospace veteran, machine learning, systems. A true engineer at heart.

Aleksander Stojmenski

PhD

Chief Engineer

PhD Candidate, Computer Science in Medicine.

Damjan Postolovski

MSC

Chief Engineer

Machine learning, data science, full-stack developer.

Markos Muche

Machine Learning

Deep learning expert and researcher. Markos oversees model training at iCardio.ai.

Jorge Barajas

Ultrasound Lead

As a senior ultrasound technician and echocardiographer, Jorge is a frequent lecturer at the West Coast Ultrasound Institute.

Edwin Korouri

Echo Researcher

Echo researcher and contributor.

Raphael Elspas

MSc

Project Manager

Engineer and professor with a deep passion for computer engineering, theory, and inspiring students through lifelong learning and curiosity.

Chee Strub

RDCS

Sonographer

Cardiac sonographer with passion for impacting patients' lives.

Katherine Raehsler

RDCS

Sonographer

Cardiac Sonographer with compassion and empathy helping the most vulnerable.

Heidi Goblirsch

RDCS

Sonographer

Passionate about advancing cardiac imaging for the future of healthcare.

Jackie Aslan

RDCS

Sonographer

27 years experience as a cardiac sonographer and educator with an extensive background in research.

Melissa Schaffer-Dearman

RDCS

Sonographer

10 years clinical experience in cardiovascular ultrasound and accreditation with case study review and training experience.

Rachel Miller

RCS

Sonographer

13 years experience delivering excellent patient care and student education in the field of cardiac ultrasound.

Fabienne Innocent

RDCS

Sonographer

Bachelors of Science in Diagnostic Ultrasound from Barry University and over 13 years of adult and pediatric echo experience including structural open-heart surgical cases.

Anna Gilgur

VP of Operations

VP of Operations at iCardio.ai