Jim Pollock, CEO
MIT BSEE
Technology and product strategy
Business development and partnerships
Development of new category products
International Development
After receiving an electrical engineering degree from MIT and working at Hewlett Packard, Jim has been involved in multiple startup and early stage technology companies.
Jim was the engineering manager and marketing director for Structural Measurement Systems in Silicon Valley, an HP spinoff later acquired by publicly held GenRad. He was then the marketing manager for Real-Time CASE tools for Santa Clara’s Integrated Systems which merged & IPO’d with Wind River Systems. Recently, he was the President and VP of Strategy for aWhere in the agriculture technology space.
Dr. Zoya Popovic, CTO
Caltech M.Sc. & PhD EE
Univ of Belgrade Dipl. Ing.
Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado
Lockheed-Martin Endowed Chair: CU Radio Frequency Lab
Chair of Excellence, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
IEEE Fellow
Research to engineering solutions
Zoya has led the University of Colorado Radio Frequency Lab for over three decades, graduating 63 PhD researchers into impactful roles at universities and industry. Zoya and her students have made significant contributions in communications and radar including innovations that are flying in Lockheed satellites now. But it was after the US Military had soldiers in Afghanistan suffering and dying from heat stroke that prompted Zoya to redirect sensitive power measurement technologies from radio astronomy inward, to non-invasively measure and monitor internal body temperatures in real-time.
While Zoya has kept her lab focused on the cutting edge of electromagnetic and analog device research, she has always kept a pragmatic eye on real-world applications. This synergy has led to the development of the non-invasive, wearable internal body temperature sensor that LumenAstra is commercializing into breakthrough devices that promise to have a large impact on millions of lives in the near future.
Walter Wong, VP Product Development
University of British Columbia, BSc ME
Technology adoption and commercialization
Manufacturing at high-scale
Advanced medical device design
Technology sales and business development
Walter spent over 20 years in engineering with Burroughs, Maxtor, Conner Peripherals and Seagate: legends of the mass storage industry at a time of phenomenal growth rates. As Director of Engineering at Connor and Seagate, Walter was directly involved with design architecture, fundamental science, supply chains, quality control, reliability design and manufacturing systems and processes.
Walter then moved into the medical device industry leveraging processes and techniques learned from massive consumer-scale design and manufacturing into innovative solutions integrating advanced materials and electronics.