Praveen Dala

Praveen brings over 20 years of experience developing innovative medical devices and bringing them to market. He comes to Akura from iRhythm Technologies, Inc. where he led Integrations and Health System Strategy. In this role, he was responsible for building the company’s best-in-class integration platform to help expand referral networks for health systems and establishing strategic partnerships to advance the company’s next-generation cardiac monitoring technology. Prior to iRhythm, Praveen held senior leadership roles at Vocera Communications, Inc. where he was instrumental in driving the company’s overall vision, product pipeline, and M&A strategy. He was responsible for scaling the product team and integrating technologies following several successful acquisitions. Praveen founded and served as CEO for mVisum, Inc, a clinical communications platform (acquired by Vocera Communications, Inc.) and ThoughtMatrix, LLC, a high-skill medical device engineering and R&D consulting firm. He began his career with EP MedSystems where he was responsible for developing the company’s pivotal intracardiac echo technology and solutions platform that lead to the company’s acquisition by St. Jude Medical, now Abbott. Praveen currently holds 21 issued U.S. patents for over 30 innovations and has been published in numerous peer-reviewed publications. He holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA as well as a B.E. from Mysore University in India.