Meet The Team
Founder & CEO
Maheen Mausoof Adamson, PhD, MHL
Dr. Adamson is director of research for Women's Operational Military Exposure Network Center of Excellence (WOMEN CoE), clinical professor of Neurosurgery (Affiliated) at Stanford School of Medicine and senior scientist for Rehabilitation Services at VA Palo Alto. She completed her undergraduate degrees in neurobiology and women studies at the University of California, Irvine. She completed her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Southern California and a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. Soof Solutions Inc. was developed during her Faculty Innovation Fellowship at Stanford Byers Biodesign Program (2021). She also completed her Masters in Healthcare Leadership at Brown University School of Professional Studies in 2022.
Dr. Adamson is a trained neuroscientist, neuromodulation, and neuroimaging expert, whose research interests span traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and pain. She’s a leader in healthcare innovation, entrepreneurship, and translational neuroscience and has over 15 years of research and healthcare leadership experience with Stanford School of Medicine, Brown University, Department of Defense, and Veterans Health Administration. She serves as a scientific advisor to several companies and mentors high school students to MD and Ph.D. colleagues along with entrepreneurs in the neuroscience space, especially minority women.
Advisor, Marketing & Solutions
Jocelyn Degance
Jocelyn DeGance is an accomplished marketing and communications leader with over two decades of experience spearheading integrated strategies for early-stage startups through large enterprises. Recognized by the Silicon Valley Business Journal as one of the 'Most Influential Women in IT', she is an award-winning expert in her field, lauded for her ability to build brand awareness, thought leadership, and inspire customer loyalty through multi-channel programs spanning digital marketing, content strategy, PR/AR, events, and strategic alliances.
Health Technology Advisor
Muhammad Ahmed Khan, PhD
Dr. Khan is a postdoc researcher at department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at the Stanford University. He has completed his B.Sc. degree in "Biomedical Engineering" with distinction (cum laude) from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan. Later, in 2012, he received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a joint M.Sc. program in "Bio-Embedded Systems" from Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany, and Lucian Blaga University Sibiu, Romania. He obtained his Ph.D. in "Technology for Health", from the University of Brescia (Biosensors Group), Italy, in collaboration with Fraunhofer Institute IKTS, Dresden, Germany in 2019. Moreover, he has also worked as a Marie Curie fellow at Technical University Denmark (DTU) within the health technology department, where he was involved in developing brain computer interface (BCI) systems for medical applications.
Recently, he won a Novo Nordisk funding for 04 years (approximate 6 Lakhs Euros) to carry out his research at Stanford University. Currently, he is a part of the Neurological Sciences and Electrical Engineering department of Stanford University and developing a BCI-Controlled smart and portable rehabilitation kit for home-based stroke recovery. His main research areas include a brain-computer interface (BCI), bioelectronics, bioinstrumentation, and the development of biomedical devices & healthcare monitoring systems. Moreover, he is also involved in the design, fabrication, and characterization of biosensors along with expertise in stretchable, flexible, and printable electronics.
Scientific Advisor, Digital Health
Walter Greenleaf, PhD
Dr. Walter Greenleaf is a neuroscientist and a medical technology developer working at Stanford University. With over three decades of research and development experience, Walter is considered a leading authority in the fields of digital medicine and medical virtual reality technology.
Walter is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Innovation Center, and Member of the Board of Directors for Brainstorm: The Stanford Laboratory for Brain Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
He's is currently the technology and neuroscience advisor to several early-stage medical product companies and accelerator/incubator programs.
Clinical Neuroscience Advisor
Maarten G. Lansberg, MD, PhD
Dr. Lansberg completed his neurology training at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and his neurovascular fellowship at Stanford University. Following fellowship, he joined the faculty of the School of Medicine at Stanford where he is currently a Professor of Neurology.
His research interest is in the design and conduct of clinical trials to test new methods for diagnosing and treating stroke patients. He has been an investigator on dozens of stroke trials. The primary focus of his research has been on the use of modern imaging techniques for the evaluation of acute stroke. These techniques include diffusion-weighted MRI, perfusion-weighted MRI and CT perfusion.
Dr. Lansberg played a lead role in the recently completed DEFUSE 3 trial, which demonstrated that patients selected with MR or CT perfusion imaging benefit from endovascular stroke therapy up to 16 hours after onset. He is also an investigator on several stroke prevention and recovery trials.
Advisor, Finance & Accounting
Patricia Lopez-Jaramillo, CPA
Patricia Lopez-Jaramillo is a Certified Public Accountant with corporate controller experience and a public accounting background.
Patricia is the founder of Menlo Accounting & Consulting, an accounting and advisory firm based in the Silicon Valley that serves a variety of industries and companies, from early-stage startups to large public companies.
Patricia has 20-plus years of experience in the field and brings a mix of domestic and international experience and technical knowledge. She has a strong track record of successfully managing accounting operations in complex environments. Patricia solves the kinds of issues that others tend to give up on and is known for being a calm and assuring professional who supports clients in a flexible, reliable, and hands-on way.
Patricia received her bachelor’s degree in Business Economics with an Emphasis in Accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Advisor, Operations
Glenda Carnate
Autism health is Glenda’s brainchild. When her son was diagnosed with autism at two (2) years old, much like any other parents, she struggled with finding information and the right care. There is no roadmap, no smart assistant, and information is so limited/not easily accessible. With this fire in her heart, that there has to be a better way, autism health was born.
With decades-long deep experience in customer experience, automation, data, healthcare, responsible artificial intelligence, and her DNA that ‘everyone deserves to live a full life’, autism health, provides easy access to providers and autism-friendly places at your fingertips. In addition, it significantly reduces the search from months/weeks to literally minutes. With the proprietary care navigation assistant Pogi, caregivers will get help and suggestions throughout the autism journey. This empathetic assistant aims to reduce the pain, cognitive overload, and mental pain/angst caregivers go through from the pre/diagnosis moment, anxiety, finding care, and caring for their autism person. This is just the beginning- there is so much more assistive experience to come with this product.
Founding Investor & Strategic Advisor
Chris Freck, MBA, CMPS
Chris is the Founding Investor and a Strategic Advisor to Soof Solutions, Inc. and has been involved in consulting/investing for and with dozens of startups over the last 20 years. Since 2016 Chris has been the President of Mutzig Management, Inc. providing real estate financial services and coaching to entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries.
From 2002 to 2016 Chris served in various regional management positions for independent mortgage banks, recruiting, coaching, and retaining individuals and teams of loan professionals. In 2011 Chris co-founded Alameda Futsal Club, a youth sports non-profit he returned to the board as Treasurer in 2018. Fun fact from 1999 while on a work sabbatical, Chris led a team from Cal State East Bay to give a comprehensive U.S. market entry analysis to a Brazilian apparel manufacturer.
In 1992 Chris co-founded a technology training company based in Washington, D.C. which led to a successful exit for the founders in 1994. Chris holds an MBA in Strategic Management and Telecommunications Management from Cal State, East Bay, and a B.S. in Graphic Communication Management with a Minor in English from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Chris and his family have given back to the community for over 25 years through volunteer efforts in the schools, arts, scouts, and youth sports.