Paul Magnin is an industry veteran with a track record of leadership throughout the ultrasound and optical coherence tomography world. Over a 17-year career at Hewlett-Packard, Paul grew the company’s ultrasound imaging business into the industry leader. After leaving HP in 1998, Paul became CEO of Lightlab Imaging, one of the early Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) success stories and successfully brought the first intravascular OCT probes to market. Paul led the growth of the company from a university startup until its sale to Goodman Ltd. Lightlab was later acquired by St. Jude Medical. Following this success, Paul was a founder and CEO of Novelis, Inc., where he developed an intravascular ultrasound product for guiding therapy for chronic total occlusions. Novelis sold to Volcano Corp. in 2008.

Over the past decade, Paul has been and advisor and board member to many medical device companies. As chairman of the board for Ultrasonix Medical Corp he successfully managed its acquisition by Analogic Corp. in 2013. He is a current or past board member of Flosonics Medical, Magellan Biomedical, SoundPipe Therapeutics, DTi: Tissue Differentiation Intelligence, Perimeter Medical Imaging, Secora Inc., Virtuoso Inc., LX Medical Inc., TomoPhase Inc. and Radianse Inc. among other high-profile directing and advisory roles within the industry.