About Us

The Leadership Team

Steve Arless, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer - Mr. Arless has over 35 years of extensive International experience in the development, marketing and sales of medical device products, including 17 years at Smith & Nephew Inc. where he served as President for close to five years. His experience includes extensive involvement in technology transfer and strategic acquisition projects across the United States, Canada and numerous international marketing mandates in the areas of orthotics, prosthetics, orthopaedics, wound care and durable medical equipment. Mr. Arless holds a B.Sc. degree in chemistry from McGill University, and an MBA from Concordia University in Montreal.

Most notably, Mr. Arless served as President and CEO of Cryocath Technologies, Inc. taking it from a start-up in April 1996 to a profitable Company in July 2006. CryoCath gained worldwide recognition as the leading technology Company developing therapeutic catheter ablation solutions for atrial fibrillation.  Worldwide sales grew to over $40 MM, with over 65% coming from the USA. Recently, Medtronic, Minnesota, acquired CryoCath.

Mr. Arless was the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

Dr. Charu Ramanathan, VP Clinical and Business Development - Dr. Ramanathan is a co-founder of the Company and a co-inventor of the ECM technology. She has over 13 years of experience in the development of the ECM technology. Dr. Ramanathan is well published in this field and her work showcasing the first application of ECM in humans was published in Nature Medicine in 2004.

Dr. Ramanathan received her PhD and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and a Bachelor of Technology from the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India.

Dr. Harold Wodlinger, VP Product Development - Dr. Wodlinger has 30 years of experience in developing and commercializing Medical Devices. Most of this experience is in the area of Cardiac Electrophysiology where he holds 8 patents and is a recognized expert in multi-channel amplifier design and signal processing.

Prior to his work at CardioInsight, Harold managed a Biomedical Engineering Department at a major teaching Hospital, and then served as Chief Engineer at Madsen Electronics, a manufacturer of Audiology equipment. In 1982, Harold co-founded Biomedical Instrumentation Inc., a Company that became a leading worldwide supplier of amplifiers, recording systems and mapping systems in cardiac electrophysiology. Biomedical Instrumentation was later acquired by the Quinton Instrument Company. Dr. Wodlinger served as President of the division, renamed Quinton Electrophysiology Corp.

Harold holds a doctorate in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Dr. George X. Kambic, Director of Quality and Regulatory Affairs - Dr. Kambic joins CardioInsight as the Director of Quality and Regulatory Affairs. He has worked in the medical device industry for most of his career, spending most of his time in the imaging modality of Computed Tomography. During much of his career he has been involved with software development, verification, validation and software process improvement. Most recently he worked in the areas of Quality and Regulatory, where as examples, he led teams that were either responsible for or involved in 510(k) submissions for new products, Q&R integration during company mergers, and post-release product vigilance.

Dr. Kambic holds a Ph.D. and M.S., in Physics from RPI and a B.S. in Physics from CMU.