team members
Mazi Zarrehparvar
Co-Founder
BA Political Economy of Industrial Societies, UC Berkeley
MBA, University of Chicago
MS Sustainable Urban Development, Oxford
Mazi is a serial entrepreneur and former financial adviser at Morgan Stanley. He has a wealth of international business experience, with his last two businesses raising $10m (construction) and $6.4m (life science). A Stanford Business School case study records how Mazi crafted a massive 132-acre urban development project in South Korea before selling it for a highly profitable sum. Mazi has spent the last six years in life science development, becoming an expert in medical device development, which includes working with scientists, putting together a product, seeking regulatory approval, sustainability, and implementing management systems.
Sunshine Holmberg CTO
BS electrical engineering, UCLA Masters electrical engineering, UCI Ph.D. materials and Manufacturing technology, UCI
Sunny has a Ph.D. in materials science from UCI and works with Marc Madou on sensor development. He is the inventor of our patented proprietary core technology, having deep expertise in micro/nanofabrication and electrochemistry, focusing on applications in energy storage, environmental remediation, sensors, and wearable electronics.
Ian Startin
COO
Fellow of the institute of chartered certified accountants “FCCA.”
Ian has worked in public practice for over 20 years dealing with a wide range of clients, from high net worth individuals to startups. Notable clients include Tide, Copper Dog Whisky, and Dean & Deluca UK, where Ian set up the accounting functions and helped with the early growth stages of these companies from Seed to Series C funding.
Dian Song
Director of Development
BS chemical engineering, UCI BS materials science engineering, UCI
Master Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems, UCI
Dian has a multidisciplinary engineering education. He holds Bachelor's degrees in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and a Master's degree in Embedded Systems. Currently, Dian's primary focus is developing the electronic platform for Limina's proprietary sensor, including PCB design, firmware programming, and iOS App prototyping. Dian was a member of the Madou Lab from 2016-to 2018 and had been providing electronic hardware & software support for various projects in biochemical detection.
Stoyan Radkov
SVP
1st Class BSc Honours degree in the Faculty of Animal & Microbial Sciences, University of Reading The Abbott Laboratories Prize. Ph.D. in Viral Oncology Trained as a Life Sciences Patent Attorney at D Young & Co, in London
After a successful career as a senior scientist at Imperial College London and University College London, researching viral oncology, Stoyan trained as a patent attorney at top-tier IP firm D Young & Co before moving to Pfizer in the UK Novartis and Syngenta in Switzerland. Stoyan now runs his own IP company dealing with International clients from the US, Europe, and China.
Isaac Yerington
Creative Director
BS Finance, Chapman University Creative and Cultural Industries, Chapman University
Isaac holds a degree in finance and creative and cultural industries. He has helped transform multiple startups, heading efforts to increase overall efficiency's within the production line. He has a background in house remodeling, car building, sewing, 3D printing, woodworking, and welding and grew up in an art room. He is in charge of our wearable's industrial and CAD design, bringing the product form to a wireless small form factor wearable while reducing sensor noise, which allowed for better sensing ability of the product.
MARC MADOU Chairman
B.Sc. Physical Chemistry, Rijksuniversiteit M.Sc. Physical Chemistry, Rijksuniversiteit Ph.D., Semiconductor Electrochemistry (Physical Chemistry-Solid State Physics), Solid-State Physics Laboratory, Rijksuniversiteit, Ghent, Belgium
Dr. Marc Madou is Chief of Engineering Innovation for MicrobeDx and runs the Madou Lab at UCI. Marc is a world authority on Bio-MEMS and has written the textbook entitled "Fundamentals of Microfabrication and Nanotechnology." Marc's career has spanned several industries and academic institutions to develop a core platform technology that enables leapfrogs to less expensive but better-performing chemical and biological micromachining applications. In recent years, he has taken a keen interest in the problem of infectious diseases and the utilization of centrifugal micro-fluidics (CD-fluidics) and carbon-MEMS (C-MEMS) electrodes to replace fluorescence detection in molecular diagnostics. His team at UCI pioneered CD-fluidics and C-MEMS.