Team

Leadership, board, and clinical advisors

Proton brings together the technical, clinical, and commercial depth required to build a new category in wearable potassium monitoring.


Our team, board, and advisors combine experience across biosensors, diagnostics, continuous monitoring, cardiology, nephrology, medical device development, and medtech scale-up.

Leadership team
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Sahan Ranamukhaarachchi
CEO & Co-Founder

Two-time medical device founder, leading the vision of CKM™, drawing on a background in biosensing and minimally invasive microdevices for clinical use.

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Victor Cadarso
CSO & Co-Founder

Physicist and Associate Professor at Monash University, with deep expertise in microfabrication, sensor chemistry and biomedical microsystems. 

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Paul Glavina
CTO

Veteran IVD technologist with 30 years of experience translating lab assays into breakthrough point-of-care products. Paul previously led creation of the award-winning Abbott i-STAT Alinity Analyzer.

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Rory St Clair
VP Operations

Over 12 years of experience leading operations and/or commercialization in health technology start-ups, including 4 medical devices and 1 lab-enabled clinical decision support tool. 

Board of directors
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Dr. Bill Hunter
Board Chair

A serial medtech entrepreneur, Bill has founded and led companies including Angiotech, Correvio Pharma, and Canary Medical. He brings more than 35 years of experience building R&D-stage ventures into globally commercialized healthcare businesses.

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Bill Van Antwerp
Independent Director

A pioneer in continuous glucose monitoring, Bill was one of the earliest scientists at MiniMed and helped develop the first FDA-approved CGM. He brings more than 30 years of experience across devices, diagnostics, and drug delivery.

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Mohan Iyer
Director
SOSV
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Aizaz Syed
Director
Tenmile
Board observers
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Gemma Sturt
Board Observer
We Venture Capital
We Venture Capital
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Alim Shaikh
Board Observer
EXOR Ventures
EXOR Ventures
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Tetsu Nakajima
Board Observer
15th Rock
15th Rock
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Ignacio Garcia
Board Observer
Trampoline Venture Partners
Trampoline Venture Partners