Members
Itisha Deokar
Systems Engineering and Innovation Lead at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Itisha is an MBA Candidate 2024 at Rady, UCSD. She’s an experienced Innovator with 10+ patents, and has delivered 10+ products while working in the consumer electronics, medical devices and biotech industry. Her experience spans 17+ years with special skillsets in systems engineering with focus on data science, quantitative and statistical analysis, Electrical Engineering, software, Integrated Circuits (IC), Wireless Technologies, Testing, and Embedded Systems. She holds an MSEE and PMP.
Vistage on Campus – Flex 24
Fong Zhao
Senior Director of Alliances Management
Vistage on Campus – Flex 24
Eirik Torheim
Technology Strategy Manager
Eirik is currently undergoing executive MBA training at Rady School of Management, UCSD. He’s a life science professional with 15+ years of experience, a trained pharmacist and researcher with a PhD in immunology. Eirik looks to impact the world in a positive way, focusing on sustainable innovation and nature preservation.
Vistage on Campus – Flex 24
Chris Haynes
Sr Manager, Design Quality
Chris is currently pursuing an MBA while leading a Design Quality team responsible for Global Design Transfer Processes. He has expertise in Illumina SBS and library preparation technologies, troubleshooting and solving complex product performance issues in a “high mix, low volume” area and implementing lean principals to maximize utilization/throughput and minimize errors/waste.
Chris and the teams he leads are always striving to rapidly mature novel processes into sustainable practices. He formerly led a team of 20 high-performing QC scientists, process development and equipment engineers responsible for process improvement and sustaining in Quality Control.
Vistage on Campus – Flex 24
Ali Montazer
Chief Technology Officer
Ali is a senior executive with an extensive background in directing technology and product groups. His industry experience is diverse and includes Healthcare/Sleep, Digital Health, Medical Devices, Retail, Fashion, Electronics, Computers and Telecommunication. Ali combines experiences from corporations to startups and is a big believer in lean methodology to address today’s business needs.
He practices the leadership philosophy of Leading by Example, with the goal of empowering and motivating teams. Ali believes a positive and enthusiastic attitude emphatically impacts a team’s morale which fosters high-performing teams throughout an organization. This increase in performance enables business growth.
Vistage on Campus – Flex 24
Steve Bush
Project Manager - Greensea IQ
Vistage on Campus – Flex 23