Egmont Baumgartner

Director and Chair

Egmont has over 30 years of experience in sales and marketing of medical devices in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He was CEO of two Cape Town-based companies: Wondermed, which manufactures a complete wound management system; and Quorus Biotech, that manufactures a bioprocessing platform for cultivating specialised cell lines. He currently serves as Group Head at Avatar Health, responsible for devices & disposables. Prior to these appointments, Egmont spent 12 years as Vice President for three medical device companies in Europe: Stryker, a world leader in reconstructive surgery; Cochlear, a manufacturer of implants for people with profound hearing loss; and Synthes, that offers the most comprehensive portfolio of orthopaedic and neuro products. In this last position, he was responsible for sales of over a billion dollars prior to the acquisition of Synthes by Johnson & Johnson.

Tessa Minter

Director

Tessa is Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Cape Town and also serves as Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Commerce with responsibility for the academic portfolio. She has a BSc in applied mathematics, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Accounting and is a Chartered Accountant (CA). Tessa served her articles with Arthur Young & Company, and also worked as an Investment Analyst for Old Mutual. Her research interest is focused on the effectiveness of information systems and their impact on corporate governance and risk management. Tessa currently plays an active role in the continuing professional education of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Kit Vaughan

Chief Executive Officer

Kit’s experience over the past four decades includes a post-doctoral fellowship in orthopaedic engineering at Oxford University, a tenured professorship at the University of Virginia, and 14 years as the Hyman Goldberg Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT). During this latter period he helped to pioneer the medical device industry in South Africa, contributing to Disa Vascular, Acorn Technologies, Lodox Systems, and Strait Access Technologies. Kit is a Fellow of the International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering, and his qualifications include a BSc (Honours) in applied mathematics and physics (Rhodes), a PhD in musculoskeletal biomechanics (Iowa) and a DSc (Med) in biomedical engineering (UCT). He is the holder of multiple United States patents in the field of biomedical engineering.

Kit Vaughan

Chief Executive Officer

Kit’s experience over the past four decades includes a post-doctoral fellowship in orthopaedic engineering at Oxford University, a tenured professorship at the University of Virginia, and 14 years as the Hyman Goldberg Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT). During this latter period he helped to pioneer the medical device industry in South Africa, contributing to Disa Vascular, Acorn Technologies, Lodox Systems, and Strait Access Technologies. Kit is a Fellow of the International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering, and his qualifications include a BSc (Honours) in applied mathematics and physics (Rhodes), a PhD in musculoskeletal biomechanics (Iowa) and a DSc (Med) in biomedical engineering (UCT). He is the holder of multiple United States patents in the field of biomedical engineering.

Natasha Steele

Business Manager

Natasha brings a wealth of business experience to the company. For over ten years she worked as a marketing and recruitment consultant in the recruitment and computer training industry, and ran her own company that manufactured magnets for the educational market. Prior to joining CapeRay she served as a business process coordinator, setting up software systems (accounting, payroll and human resources) for automating a recruitment company, and as an operations manager where she was responsible for finance and administration. Natasha qualified with a higher diploma in art education from the College of Education in Cape Town. She is CapeRay’s longest serving employee and helps lead the company as both Business Manager and Quality Assurance Manager, this latter position since 2018 when she led the team to the renewal of our ISO 13485 certificate.

Murray Truter

Electronics Engineer

Murray graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2016 with a BSc (Eng) degree in mechatronics engineering. During his studies he completed internships at Airbourne Drones, where he was involved in the manufacture of small unmanned air vehicles, and at Jamdonut Creative Technologies, where he built prototypes for proximity detection and computer vision. After graduation Murray worked as a mechatronics engineer for Edro, an edtech business that specializes in educational robotics. His most recent position was as electronics engineer for ET Systems, a company that specialises in the design and manufacture of electronic security equipment. At CapeRay, Murray has had responsibility for Aceso’s electronics, including ultrasound, as well as the design and implementation of our new automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) system called Epione.

Lindsay Swartz

Business Support Administrator

Lindsay graduated with a National Diploma in Human Resources Management from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in 2005. Her first position after graduation was with the printing firm Ince, where she served as an HR intern and administrator. Lindsay subsequently spent ten years with the insurance company Metropolitan Health, serving first as training coordinator and then as a coordinator for organisational development. Most recently she has worked part-time as the practice manager for Skylark, registered accountants and tax practitioners. At CapeRay, Lindsay provides business support for the company’s administrative, financial and HR activities.

Bradlee Wilson

Consulting Software Engineer

Bradlee graduated from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2015 with an honours degree in electrical and computer engineering and in 2019 earned an MSc in radar engineering at UCT for a thesis entitled “Automatic Generation of a Floor Plan from a 3D Scanned Model” in which he used a colour depth sensor and a custom-designed algorithm. Brad has a special interest in both embedded electronics and software development. At CapeRay, he was responsible for preparing Aceso for in-the-field operation, while he also improved the co-registration of our X-ray and ultrasound images and contributed to the design and implementation of AcesoFusion in conjunction with our Italian partner, NeoLogica. In June 2019 Brad was recruited by Amazon in Cape Town, but continues to consult to CapeRay on a part-time basis, and in 2020 made important contributions to the software architecture of our new automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) product called Epione.

Raphael Smith

Consulting Engineer

Raphael has a BSc (Eng) degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, and an MSc (Med) degree in biomedical engineering from UCT for a thesis that focused on the design of the breast platform for CapeRay’s dual-modality Aceso system. His work experience includes serving as a consultant to Strait Access Technologies for whom he designed a 3D printed heart valve for fatigue testing of infused bovine pericardial tissues. At Wits Raphael served as President of their Baja team, responsible for the design, manufacture and racing of an off-road vehicle. Through his company BMEC Technologies (https://www.bmec.co/), which he established in 2015, Raph continues to assist CapeRay with the design, manufacture and testing of our patented dual-modality breast imaging systems. He is an inventor on three United States patents that protect the design of CapeRay’s hermetically-sealed breast platform (HSBP).

Daniel Du Plessis

Mechanical Engineer

Roland Baasch

Consulting Engineer

Roland earned a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2002. Thereafter, he worked as an electrical engineer, first in the petrochemical industry for Fluor, where he was involved in the design and commissioning of electrical equipment for a refinery, and then for a building services company in London where he was responsible for electrical infrastructure projects. Roland earned a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at UCT, with a focus on medical imaging. At CapeRay he has been responsible for customer relations, design specifications, evaluation of clinical imaging data and system testing. He served as Engineering Manager for four years, responsible for driving the Aceso and Epione projects, and was a co-author on two international papers. Roland left CapeRay at the end of 2020 but continues as a consulting engineer, contributing his considerable experience to our ongoing projects.

Brian Goemans

Regulatory Affairs Consultant

Brian is a biomedical engineer with substantial experience in the development of electro-medical products, and has had considerable success in securing CE marking for medical products developed in South Africa. He worked for the Technology Innovation Agency and played a leading role in growing the medical device industry in South Africa. He assisted CapeRay to secure the CE Mark for the Pandia in 2012 and has contributed to regulatory affairs and risk management for our Aceso system. Brian consults to companies around the world through his association with Emergo, a global medical device regulatory consultancy. He has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Wits University and an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from UCT.

James Long

Mechanical Engineering Consultant

James graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2008 with a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering. His prior experience included a period with Hatch Africa where he was involved with specification for contractor tendering and the installation of gas engines. James was subsequently employed as an engineer by Reitech SA, where he integrated new machines and conveyors, and did 3D modelling, sheet metal design and factory layout. At Unique Hydra, a manufacturer of offshore diving equipment, he designed a damping mechanism for a hyperbaric chamber door and performed fatigue calculations for dive cage recovery units. After joining CapeRay in 2015, James was responsible for mechanical engineering design and testing, in particular the hermetically-sealed breast platform (HSBP) for Aceso, and in 2020 the mechanical design of our new product called Epione, that is an automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) device. He left CapeRay at end-2020 to join local manufacturer GMS Systems, and continues to consult to us.