Leadership
StarFish’s management team has the industry experience needed to help clients develop and commercialize products that rise to the top in their markets.
Scott Phillips
President
Scott holds a degree in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia. Prior to starting StarFish, he worked in diverse areas such as lithium battery development and manufacturing, UV spectroscopy instrumentation and hi-fi audio speakers. Under his leadership StarFish has grown from being a highly motivated team working on one project at a time to a diverse professional organization with clients around the world and 100% focus on medical devices.
John Walmsley
VP of Product Development
John is a Professional Physicist and holds a Master of Science in Optics from Queen’s University Belfast. His early career focused on high reliability optoelectronics development and manufacturing transfer. Since joining StarFish in 2005, John has managed projects as diverse as 3D ultrasound development, emergency medical devices, and laboratory automation. He now oversees all product development activities at StarFish with a team of 30 engineers and designers.
Jason Dolynny
Director of Manufacturing
Jason has more than twelve years of experience in manufacturing management in diverse industries and graduated in operations management from BC Institute of Technology. In addition to overseeing all production, Jason is responsible for service, inventory and supply chain management. He is also charged with maintaining strong, transparent and responsive relationships with our manufacturing clients.
David Dobson
Director of Business Development
Leveraging deep experience in product development and sales within the medical device and consumer electronics industries, David is uniquely qualified to assist medical device companies in determining how StarFish can best be of service. A helpful resource in all aspects of the design process, from definition through development and manufacturing, David’s expertise and innate understanding of the challenges associated with bringing a device to market sucessfully provide StarFish clients with a strong competitive advantage.
Vesna Janic
Director of QA/RA
Vesna’s expertise in regulatory compliance and conformance standards provides StarFish Medical’s clients with invaluable guidance and assistance in understanding and complying with regulatory standards such as cGMP, GLP, GCP, ISO 13485 and ISO 17025. Drawing upon her certification by the SQA as a Registered QA Professional in GLP and more than 17 years of experience in the R&D and QA fields, Vesna ensures that your StarFish project successfully meets and exceeds industry standards.
Henning Hueppe
Director of Finance
19 years of experience as a controller and professional accountant afford Henning with rare insight into the unique financial challenges associated with operating a successful medical device company. Armed with an educational background in Economics and a CMA designation, Henning works with StarFish clients to map out realistic and advantageous strategies to fund the development of their new medical device.
