About SVC · Leadership & Team

Specialist experience.

One connected team

Our team brings together investors, operators, clinicians, engineers, and commercialization leaders who understand what it takes to move a medical device from insight to patient impact.
Over 300

years of combined experience across the partnership

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Firm Leadership

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Clinical Partners

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Operating Partners

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Staff

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Firm leadership

Investment leadership grounded in medical devices

Managing Partner

Daniel Teo

Investment & Company Building
Daniel brings more than three decades of experience in company finance (CFO), corporate development and international business, more than half of that time in Medtech entrepreneurship and specialist investing. His background includes training in physics, business management, and finance.
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Managing Partner (Asia)

Fredrik Nyberg

Asia-Pacific Medtech
Fredrik brings more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, including 25 years across the Asia Pacific. He leads the Asia-Pacific operations of MedTech Innovator and was previously Founder and CEO of the Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed), connecting startups with the region’s industry ecosystem.
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Clinical Partners

Frontline judgment in the fields where we invest

Clinical Partners help us understand unmet needs, evaluate whether technologies fit real care pathways, and anticipate the evidence and adoption required for meaningful use.

Dr. Francisco Arabia

Cardiothoracic surgery

An internationally recognized cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon, Dr. Arabia formerly chaired Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix and led the transplant program at Cedar-Sinai. His work spans advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, transplantation, and device innovation.

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Dr. Tze Ching Tan

Neurosurgery

Prominent neurosurgeon at Hong Kong Gleneagles Hospital with extensive experience in brain tumors, image-guided neurosurgery, as well as general cranial and spinal surgeries. She brings a specialist perspective on neurosurgical care, practice and clinical adoption.

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Dr. Alexander Ding

Interventional radiology & diagnostic imaging

An interventional radiologist and healthcare executive, Alexander serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association and was formerly Enterprise Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Humana. He brings payer, value-based-care, coverage, and physician-adoption perspectives to market-access strategy.

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Operating Partners

The capabilities that turn invention into a company

Our Operating Partners bring breadth across Clinical & Regulatory Strategy; Reimbursement; Hospital / Health-System Adoption; Data Analytics; Engineering Design & Product Development; Manufacturing & Quality; Sourcing & Supply Chain; Asia Business Development; and Strategic Positioning & Exits.

Dr. Susan Alpert

Clinical & regulatory strategy

A physician, microbiologist, and one of medtech’s most experienced regulatory leaders, Susan formerly directed the FDA’s Office of Device Evaluation for six years and later served as Medtronic’s Chief Regulatory Officer. She helps teams align clinical evidence, product development, and regulatory strategy.

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Dr. Alexander Ding

Reimbursement

An interventional radiologist and healthcare executive, Alexander serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association and was formerly Enterprise Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Humana. He brings payer, value-based-care, coverage, and physician-adoption perspectives to market-access strategy.

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Dr. Jo-Carol Hiatt

Hospital adoption

A surgeon and health-technology assessment leader, Jo-Carol has served on the Board of Health Technology Assessment International. She formerly chaired Kaiser Permanente’s National Product Council, overseeing the evidence-based selection of devices, equipment, diagnostics, and other technologies across the health system.

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Dr. Irina Kukuyeva

Data analytics
A UCLA-trained statistician and AI leader, Irina has invented and deployed algorithms, led global data and AI teams, and advised more than 100 startups. She helps investors and companies distinguish durable AI capability from hype and translate complex data into product and business decisions.
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Matt Otten

Manufacturing
A medical-device veteran with more than 30 years in design, development, and manufacturing. Matt was a founding Vice President at global contract manufacturer Interplex Medical. His experience spans numerous surgical and interventional specialties, scale-up, Six Sigma, and the transition to reliable commercial production.
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Alvin Wang

Sourcing & supply chain
Alvin is an industry leader in sourcing, procurement and supply-chain management, with particular relevance to medical-device and other complex product environments. He previously held senior leadership roles at Baxter, Schering-Plough, General Motors-Delphi as well as various electronics and semiconductor companies.
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David Yeow

Asia business development
Broad operating and advisory experience, including mentoring entrepreneurs and serving on the boards of several startups. Previously Director of Special Projects at NTUtive, the innovation and enterprise company of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
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Staff

Building the organization behind the partnership.

Stephanie Teo
Director, People & Business Operations
Stephanie brings a multidisciplinary background in product and project management together with hands-on people leadership in technology organizations, including AI-focused research and development environments. She supports talent, operating rhythms, cross-functional execution, and the organizational systems that help Sloan Ventures and its wider network work effectively.
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A networked model

It takes a small village to build a world-class medical device

We combine the team shown here with a wider international network of clinicians, technical experts, strategic partners, and investors—bringing the right expertise to each company at the right time.