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Mr. Paul Geyer
Chief Executive Officer LightIntegra Technology |
Paul Geyer is CEO of LightIntegra Technology Inc. LightIntegra has developed the ThromboLux technology which is used as a point of care device to determine platelet quality for blood transfusions. Paul is also Chairman of Neovasc Inc., a new specialty vascular device company that develops medical devices for the rapidly growing vascular and surgical marketplace. Mr. Geyer held the position of CEO at Medical Ventures from its inception in 2001 to June 2008. Paul graduated with a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. A Professional Engineer, he has taken numerous postgraduate courses in medical technology and Finance and is a Certified Director. In 1991 he founded Mitroflow International Inc., a tissue heart valve company. As CEO of Mitroflow and grew the company from 9 employees in 1991 to more than 125 employees in 1999. In 1999 Paul sold Mitroflow to Sulzer Medica, a large Swiss Medical Device company. He continued as President of Sulzer Mitroflow Corp. unit the end of 2001, when he left to become President of Medical Ventures Corp. In 1998, Mr. Geyer received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Richmond Chamber of Commerce. In 1999, he was also named as one of the ‘40 Under 40 Award Winners’ for the top business people in British Columbia. In the same year, Mitroflow was named by the Business in Vancouver as being one of British Columbia’s ‘50 Fastest Growing Companies’. He has served on the board of directors for Medical Devices Canada, the Medical Device Development Center located in Vancouver. He is currently a director of a number of public and private companies in the technology field. Mr. Geyer is an active Angel investor in technology and life science companies. He has served on the Board of Directors of British Columbia Science World since 2003 where he was actively involved in the establishment of a new life sciences gallery called ‘BodyWorks’ and currently holds the position of Chairman.