Meet Our Advisory Board
Marc Jones
CEO and Board Director
Marc is the Chief Executive Officer at Altoida. He is a healthcare technology business leader with more than 25 years of experience across both private and publicly-held companies.
Prior to Altoida, Marc served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of binx health, a digital health and molecular diagnostics company, where he co-founded binx's digital health business. At binx, he led the company through a critical phase of expansion from early to late-stage commercial product launch, generating multi-million revenue growth under his leadership. Marc also served as the COO and CFO of Good Start Genetics, which was acquired by Invitae (NVTA). As the inaugural CFO of T2 Biosystems (NASDAQ:TTOO), he played a fundamental role in navigating the company to a successful IPO.
Marc was also CFO of Crashlytics, where he oversaw the company's acquisition by Twitter in 2013. Prior to Crashlytics, he was CFO of Ivenix (acquired by Fresenius), and also CFO of CHiL Semiconductor, which was acquired by International Rectifier (now Infineon). Prior to CHiL, Marc held roles of increasing responsibility at Picis Inc. He has raised hundreds of millions in capital and has delivered multiple M&A transactions providing value to shareholders. Marc serves on the Board of Directors of Altoida, Progentec Diagnostics and Pathfinder Health.
Matt Gorman
Chief Financial Officer
Matt Gorman is a CFO for high growth companies in the life sciences. He is the Founder and Owner of CFgO, a finance, accounting, and strategy group supporting high growth companies. Working as a strategic partner with the CEO and management teams, Matt supports and guides companies through significant value inflection points including equity and debt financings, corporate partnering, IPO support, and M&A support. Matt has more than a decade of experience in leadership roles in the life sciences industry and previously worked for Fortune 50 and publicly traded companies. Matt is a certified public accountant and holds a B.A in accounting from Stonehill College and an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management.
Shayn Diamond
Shayn is a Partner at Whitecap and joined the firm in 2015. Prior to joining Whitecap, Shayn was a lawyer at the corporate law firm Wildeboer Dellelce LLP. Shayn is active in the community, including involvement with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Sick Kids Hospital. Shayn holds a JD and an MBA from Queens University and a BA (Philosophy) from Western University.
Nivaldo Diaz
VP, Software Product Development
Nivaldo is VP of Software Product Development at Altoida. He brings over 35 years’ experience in software engineering, including over 20 years in Healthcare Information Technology (HCIT). Nivaldo has led large, geographically distributed teams in the design and development of commercial HCIT platforms and products for hospitals across the globe, supporting solutions for Medication Management, electronic surveillance for Healthcare Associated Infections, Perioperative workflow, mobile point-of-care, health informatics using machine learning, and data / system integration. Nivaldo is an accomplished executive, adept at driving vision, strategy and execution of technological transformation in software organizations, having held leadership positions in product development and consulting services in startups and large enterprise settings across various industries covering public sector, telecommunications, and travel.
Therese Maria Liechtenstein, Ph.D.
Therese Maria (Thera) is an Investment Director in the Biotechnology team of M Ventures. Thera actively leads investments and represents M Ventures on the board of multiple portfolio companies. Previously Thera managed strategic projects for the Healthcare business of Merck and prior to this was a client relationship manager in the field of wealth preservation, at Industrie- & Finanzkontor Ets.
She received her PhD in Immuno-Oncology from University College London, an MSc in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Amsterdam, and a BA in Biology and Business studies from New York University.
Dr. Arnd Kaltofen
Arnd has collected a broad and long-standing experience in building and exiting ventures in the healthcare sector. He served as chairman and board director of companies such as Esbatech (acquired by Alcon), Kuros Biosurgery (reverse-IPO at SWX), Activaero (acquired by Vectura), or Ganymed Pharmaceuticals. In his previous career, he built a team dedicated to venture capital transactions in the healthcare industry for KPMG Corporate Finance. He gained his entrepreneurial experience in several Medical Device and Digital Health startups where he held various senior management positions in marketing, commercialization, and product development. As an MD he started his professional career in two university hospitals as an anaesthesiologist and in medical research.
In addition to being an MD, Arnd also holds an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate Business School, USA, and WHU Koblenz, Germany, as well as a Postgraduate Degree in Computer Sciences from TU Munich, Germany.
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