Chief Executive Officer

Eythor is known for his extensive experience leading medical and life science device companies from concept to commercialization. As president of Ossur Americas, a division he grew from the United States and Canada to one spanning the Western Hemisphere, Eythor introduced the first three bionic devices in the world for lower-limb amputees: the Rheo Knee®, the Power Knee_TM and the Proprio Foot_TM.

Prior to joining Ekso Bionics, Eythor was CEO of Rex Bionics. He also worked for Hewlett Packard in Europe as Product Manager for both the Medical and the Computer Peripheral divisions.

Eythor has a master's degree in Business and Economics from Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany. He is fluent in German, Icelandic and English.

Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer

Nathan is the co-inventor of the company's core exoskeleton technology. His technical and leadership skills were honed working at the Department of Energy, Carnegie Mellon's Field Robotics Center, Berkeley Process Control, and the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory. Nathan holds six patents and has another eight pending.

Nathan received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg and his master's in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Chief Financial Officer

Max is the ideal CFO, having served as a managing director of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany and of ING BHF Bank in Frankfurt and New York. He was also a principal at Fredericks Michael & Co. in New York.

Prior to joining Ekso Bionics, Max was involved in early stage electric vehicle manufacturing. He founded and served as CEO of Barefoot Motors and was president of ZAP.

Max received his bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University and attended the Master's of Accounting program at NYU.

Vice President of Manufacturing

With twenty years of leadership in semiconductor, aerospace, medical device and telecommunications industries, Frank is Ekso's recognized expert in materials management and production systems.

Prior to joining Ekso Bionics, he worked at Sieger Engineering, Ultra Clean Technology, and Sanmina- SCI. Frank also started a successful consulting business focused on strategy, planning, management development, materials management and ERP optimization for high-tech companies.

Frank studied mechanical engineering at the United States Naval Academy.

Managing Director EMEA

Based in the United Kingdom, Andy brings more than a decade of experience in the medical device industry to his role as Ekso Bionics' Managing Director for Europe, Middle East & Africa.

Before joining Ekso, Andy held several management positions at Ossur and was responsible for the company's European sales organization.

Andy is an alumnus of the Manchester Business School executive education program.

VP of Global Sales

Prior to joining Ekso Bionics, Kolbeinn was a senior executive at Ossur for seven years. During his tenure, he oversaw the high-end prosthetic and orthotic company's growth in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

Outside of bionic and medical devices, his expertise has guided companies in the engineering (CEO of HRV Engineering), consumer goods (VP of LazyTown Entertainment) and automobile industries (Mercedes Benz and Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Projects).

Kolbeinn holds advanced degrees from the University of Mannheim, Germany and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

Eythor is known for his extensive experience leading medical and life science device companies from concept to commercialization. As president of Ossur Americas, a division he grew from the United States and Canada to one spanning the Western Hemisphere, Eythor introduced the first three bionic devices in the world for lower-limb amputees: the Rheo Knee®, the Power Knee_TM and the Proprio Foot_TM.

Prior to joining Ekso Bionics, Eythor was CEO of Rex Bionics. He also worked for Hewlett Packard in Europe as Product Manager for both the Medical and the Computer Peripheral divisions.

Eythor has a master's degree in Business and Economics from Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany. He is fluent in German, Icelandic and English.

Scott has built his career by identifying new markets and shaping innovative products for them. In 1995, he identified search engines as a significant advertising medium and invented the first products to automate marketing across multiple search engines, ultimately creating the bid-for-placement business model used by GoTo/Overture (and now Google AdWords) and serving as VP Ideas at GoTo-incubator Idealab. As an initial investor and Director at PayPal, he was a co-inventor of the ‘email payments’ product now widely used on eBay. In 2000, Scott saw opportunity in the unbounded growth of email traffic, co-founding IronPort Systems and serving as CTO. Scott’s other private equity investments include Zappos, LiveOps, Facebook, Slide, and Causes.com.

Marilyn has a career full of diverse experiences ranging from teaching high school, to sports champion, business and non-profit entrepreneur, speaker, consultant and director on boards.  Marilyn, and two fellow glider pilots, started a company designing customized ultra-lightweight wheelchairs. The Quickie was born, and instantly revolutionized the mobility industry. After selling Quickie to Sunrise Medical, she stayed on as a Global VP for Sunrise Medical in various roles until 2007. She immediately launched Envision, a professional speaking and business consulting company and in 2009 StimDesigns LLC, an early stage Neurotechnology company. In the non-profit world Marilyn founded: Winners on Wheels – a coed-scouting program for children in wheelchairs; co-founded Discovery Through Design – raising awareness and funds for spinal cord injury research and paralyzed women’s health; and served as a founding board member and currently serves as emeritus board member of The California Endowment – charged with advancing the healthcare of underserved populations in California. Marilyn is currently an advisory board member of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institute of Health; a member of the Committee of 200 Women Business Leaders; Cody Unser First Steps Foundation; Randy Snow Push Forward Foundation; and Activities4All Foundation.

Michael Fawkes has had an extensive career with Hewlett Packard, serving in numerous senior financial and operational roles from 1979-2007. Most recently, Mike was Senior Vice President, heading up Global Operations for HP’s $29 billion Imaging & Printing Group (IPG). His duties also included ownership for HP’s worldwide Supply Chain, Logistics, Consumer Support, and Environmental Organizations. Previous positions included Vice President of IPG’s Supply Chain Operations, Vice President of Worldwide Operations for HP’s Consumer Business Organization, and Vice President of HP’s EMEA Inkjet Printing Business, located in Barcelona, Spain.

Mike currently serves as an Independent Director for Saba Software, a NASDAQ listed company. At SABA, Mike serves as the Chairman of the Governance Committee and also serves on the Audit Committee. He has previously served on the boards of several companies, including Klipsch Audio, Tesla Motors, Switch Lighting and Cornice.

Mike is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in finance from the University of Iowa.

Certified Prosthetist/Orthotist and Managing Principal of SCOPe Treasurer for the California Orthotics and Prosthetics Association (COPA)

Kel Bergmann serves on the Board of Directors for AOPA, DAC, COPA and is on the DMERC Advisory Committee. As part of his commitment to education he co-authored “Spinal Orthoses in the Management of Spinal Trauma” which as appeared in both Spine by Rothman & Simeone and Spine Trauma by Levine, Eismont, Garfin & Zigler. Kel specializes in adult rehabilitation though he has had great success working with all populations.

Professor and Chair Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
Co-director of the Graduate Programs in Physical Therapy
Administrative director of the Peter Ostwald Health Program for Performing Artists

Nancy has received a number of prestigious honors and is a member of several professional societies, such as the American Physical Therapy Association, American Public Health Association, American Hand Society and the International Association of Pain.

Chief, Spinal Cord Injury Service, VA Palo Alto Medical Center
Professor of Spinal Cord Medicine at Stanford University

Dr. Creasey trained in trauma surgery and has specialized in spinal cord injuries since 1980. His interests are in restoring function after paralysis using bioengineering and biotechnology. He led a multi-center clinical trial of an implanted pacemaker for restoring bladder, bowel and sexual function after spinal cord injury, resulting in FDA approval of the device. He is Medical Director of the Stanford Partnership for Spinal Cord Injury and Repair.

Chief of Spinal Cord & Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Assistant Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Department of Orthopaedics, Stanford University School of Medicine Associate Residency Director (SCVMC), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Stanford University School of Medicine

General Manager, IDEO

Tom Kelley is IDEO’s general manager. IDEO is an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centered design-based approach to help organizations innovate and grow. With his brother, IDEO founder and chairman David Kelley, Tom helped manage the firm as it grew from 20 designers to a staff of more than 500 people. Tom shares IDEO’s philosophy and methodology with the world through speaking engagements and two best-selling books, The Art of Innovation (2001) and The Ten Faces of Innovation (2005).

Assistant Clinical Professor, Depts. Orthopedic Surgery and PM&R
Medical Director, Acute Spinal Cord Injury Program, UC Irvine Medical Center, Scientific Liaison, Reeve-Irvine Research Center

After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Kim received her medical degree from University of Southern California. She then completed her residency training at the top ranked Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. As a board certified physician in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and one of 500 U.S. physicians with subspecialty board certification in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Medicine, Dr. Kim has been invited to give expert presentations at national conferences and international symposiums for SCI, while recognized with numerous awards for training resident physicians. As the lead investigator, Dr. Kim’s research interests focus on exercise-based rehabilitation involving core strengthening and developing outcome measures in neuroplasticity for future clinical trials. She remains active in the SCI community as an Ambassador for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation for minority community outreach programs and as an Advisory Board member for the Challenged Athletes Foundation’s mentoring program. Combining her own athletic interests as an adaptive surfer and tri-athlete, Dr. Kim will serve as the Team Physician for the 2011 U.S. Paralympics Track & Field team.