Report: Quanttus alums land at Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, other major players

Former employees of closed health monitor developer Quanttus have found themselves in critical positions with industry leaders include Apple (NSDQ:AAPL), Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN), Alphabet (NSDQ:GOOGL), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and other major players, according to a CNBC report. Originally spun-out of MIT in 2012, Quanttus aimed to develop a wearable vital signs monitor to measure blood pressure, heart rate and respiration. The device they created was designed to capture more than 500,000 vital sign data points each day in hopes of reducing the burden of issues like uncontrolled high blood pressure. Despite hiring promising engineers and innovators from MIT, Nike, Mass. General Hospital and Apple, the company closed its doors in 2016 after data from early clinical trials of the device didn’t pan out, according to the report. But employees didn’t go down with the ship – a number of vital personnel, including co-founder David He and CEO Yoky Matsouka, found themselves in important positions at major companies. Co-founder He went on to join Alphabet’s Verily as a technical lead, while former CEO Matsouka spent a short stint with Apple’s health team before joining Alphabet’s home automation division Nest as chief tech officer, according to CNBC. Quanttus hardware manager Jordan Rice is now a senior hardware leader at Nike and resident cardiologist and Quanttus study lead Maulik Majmudar joined Amazon, according to the report. Former interim CEO and board membe...
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