Volta Team

Co-Founders and Management Team

Théophile Mohr Durdez

CEO, CO-FOUNDER

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Jérome Kalifa

CHAIRMAN, CMO, CO-FOUNDER

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Julien Seitz

CO-FOUNDER

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Clément Bars

VP, CO-FOUNDER

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Théophile Mohr Durdez

CEO, CO-FOUNDER
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‍Théophile grew up in France, Germany and Austria. Since his young age, he wanted to help his fellow humans with technology. Latter on, he studied at Ecole polytechnique (Paris), where he fell in love with Statistics, Machine and Deep Learning. There, he obtained a double degree with the Business School HEC (Paris).

His first accomplishment was to create a wheelchair controlled via eye-tracking for SLA disabled people. He then helped in solving complex geophysics with the use of differential equations.

In 2016, he co-founded Volta, where he was the passionate architect and inventor of Volta’s algorithms. In 2017, Théophile received the Research Award from Ecole polytechnique for the algorithms that he developed at Volta.

Théophile is hiring and leading a team of top-talents to drive Volta towards success by making a difference for operators and patients.

Julien Seitz

CO-FOUNDER

Julien is the acting Chief of the cardiac electrophysiology section at Saint Joseph Hospital (Marseille, France).

St-Joseph Hospital is one of the three highest-volume ablation center in the country. This gave him many opportunities to think deep about what interventional cardiologists need most. Julien is well-known for his contributions to the field of electrogram-based ablation. He has published plenty of manuscripts in high-impact cardiology journals. He is a regular guest speaker, chairman at major conferences.

Since he started as an interventional cardiologist, Julien has been obsessed with making accessible any complex ablation approach to large numbers of colleague physicians. He started with conceptualizing multipolar-electrogram visual interpretation into a series of simple steps.

Since Volta was created, he used his in-depth experience to help design AI algorithms that provide simple but powerful cues to cardiologists.

Clément Bars

VP, CO-FOUNDER

Clément has devoted his career to refining his understanding of procedural work flows in the field of cardiovascular electrophysiology.

Clement has become a well-known expert at simplifying workflows, specifically as they pertain to atrial fibrillation catheter ablation. His many contributions to the field of ablation could be summarized as “Do what you understand well, but keep it simple”.

He is regularly invited as a guest speaker or as a proctor in major hospitals in Europe, USA and Asia.

At Volta, he oversees the clinical evaluation of Volta’s algorithms. With more than 40 cardiac electrophysiologists visiting us last year alone, Clément has formed a large network of interventional cardiologists that cannot wait to try Volta’s algorithms.

Jérome Kalifa

CHAIRMAN, CMO, CO-FOUNDER

Both basic scientist and clinical electrophysiologist, Jérôme is based in the USA and currently Faculty at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.

Jérôme dedicated about two decades to translational and clinical research in cardiac electrophysiology.

He is a seasoned speaker, chairman and reviewer for cardiology journals and conferences. His research effort has focused on understanding atrial fibrillation mechanisms as they pertain to cardiac interventions.

His background in cardiac mapping, imaging, database management and catheter technologies helped us design Volta’s algorithms.

Jérôme’s knowledge of the US clinical landscape is helping Volta address the needs of US users.

Laurent Launay

VP ENGINEERING

Ph.D. in Computer Science

24+ years of experience in GE Healthcare and IRT b-com

Worked as Senior Manager for 3D applications, workstations applications and platforms

John Slump

CFO

Founder/CFO of multiple med-tech companies including FARAPULSE acquired by Boston Scientific Experienced medical devices & health tech operator.

Raised >$100M of total startup financing and returned >$500M of exit value to shareholders with an attractive ROI.

Jeff Martin

VP GLOBAL MARKETING

‍20 years of experience in med device marketing.Previously Marketing Director at Acutus; Group Product Director at Biosense Webster.

Highly effective in development and execution of global strategic marketing/field team plans.

Paola Milpied

VP CLINICAL & REGULATORY AFFAIRS

‍Paola is a former engineer and data scientist who holds a PhD in signal processing and machine learning applied to Cardiology. She has 13+ years of experience in medical device companies in France and in the US where she held several roles in clinical research and regulatory affairs in the cardiovascular field.

At Volta, Paola leads the clinical, quality and regulatory affairs department with an ambitious clinical program as well as major regulatory challenges.