Experienced Leadership Team

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 Before joining Senseer in 2017, Sascha founded KYNEA Consulting, which focused on strategic planning and portfolio strategy for companies such as Pfizer, Moderna Therapeutics, GE Healthcare and Juno.  He is also the cofounder and former Chief Scientific Officer at Sanguine Biosciences, where he led the scientific development of the company, including sourcing, evaluating, and executing collaborations.  Sascha earned his Ph.D. in pharmacology from UCLA (2007), and received his MBA from USC (2011), where he focused on marketing and entrepreneurship.  He also holds an M.S. in genetics and a B.S. in biology from the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. 

 Tuan cofounded Senseer in 2017. In 2010, he also cofounded Fluid Synchrony, a medtech venture that is developing and commercializing wirelessly controlled, implantable micropumps.  Since 2006, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.  Tuan received his B.S. degree in biological sciences from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.  As a doctoral graduate student in the Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program for Neuroscience at UCLA, Tuan focused on applying neuroengineering principles for the study of neurodegeneration and neurorepair. 

 Ellis Meng is a Professor of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California and the Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.  In 2004, she founded the Biomedical Microsystems Laboratory which conducts research on biocompatible polymer technology and micromachining, sensors and actuators, microfluidics, and implantable and biomedical microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Her honors include the NSF CAREER award, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Award, 2009 TR35 Young Innovator Under 35, Viterbi Early Career Chair, ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, AIMBE Fellow, and IEEE Fellow. Ellis serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering and Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering. She received the B.S. degree in engineering and applied science and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena.

 Mahendra is a technical leader with over 25 years of experience in architecting and developing products from concept to completion.  His core areas of focus are to drive detailed requirements from concepts & standards, call flows, define APIs, and work with key strategic partners in the technology space (such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) to build end-to-end solutions.  He has built and lead geographically dispersed engineering teams in delivering high quality products to the market in a timely manner.

  Brian Dolan is a mathematician, inventor and cyberneticist with decades of experience building enterprise grade artificial intelligence products.  Equally comfortable in product, sales and technology roles, Brian excels at translating complex business problems into tractable mathematical solutions.  He leverages 10 years of CXO experience with premier brands such as MySpace, Yahoo, Greenplum and Deep6 AI and advises multiple companies from seed to growth stage.  Brian shares his industry knowledge regularly and has delivered keynote addresses at major industry events such as TEDx, High Performance Computing and Big Data Day LA.  Brian holds a B.S. in Pure Mathematics from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in addition to an M.A. in Pure Mathematics and an M.A. in Biomathematics, both conferred by UCLA.  

 Committed to companies having a social or environmental impact, Jane has served as co-founder, director, operating executive, investor and/or advisor for multiple technology startups as well as multinational corporations.  She has been instrumental in launching over 8 startups with successful exits, including raising and structuring $200+ MM in venture equity and debt.   Most recently, Jane served as CEO of UrLoop and orchestrated its sale to Senseer, having been immersed in the senior living industry. Previously Jane founded and managed merchant bank, Jane Capital Partners, where she served as co-founder and director of a number of companies, including Smart Wires, Zenergy plc, and Trinitech.  Earlier in her career, Jane served as COO of Globalgate and Executive Director of venture fund, WI Harper Group.  Having lived and worked in 4 countries in 3 continents, Jane also has extensive experience in cross border transactions. Jane earned a B.S. from Syracuse University and an M.S. from University of Connecticut.