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Chris Lafond is CEO of Insurity and oversees all aspects of operations and strategic direction. He brings to Insurity more than 20 years of executive management experience.

Dirk brings 20+ years of successful product development & commercialization experience in the medical device and biotechnology fields to Advanced Catheter Therapies. Dirk is president of Device Technologies, Inc. a medical device design consultancy and incubator. Since the company’s inception in 2001, he has helped numerous early-stage medical technology companies with their product development activities. His prior experience includes serving as staff engineer and patent officer with the Peripheral Technologies Division of C.R. Bard, where he led multi-disciplinary teams developing products for the interventional radiology & peripheral vascular markets, and with Sepracor, Inc. developing manufacturing of their membrane bioreactor program. Dirk holds and has pending numerous U.S. patents in the fields of peripheral vascular, cardiology, biopsy, orthopedics and other minimally invasive and catheter-based technologies. Dirk is a graduate of Boston’s Wentworth Institute of Technology, with degrees in both Mechanical Design and Management Engineering.

Natasha Kurtova French is a Founder & CEO at EngagePoint and Mentor, Certified Instructor for the Kauffman FastTrac at US Market Access Center and is based in Portola Valley, California. She has worked as VP, Market Development at Stereograph; Director, Business Developement at Eric Li; and Board member at Palo Alto Art Center. Natasha works or has worked as Advisor at QuickBack. She attended Haas School of Business - UC Berkeley between 1994 and 1994; University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business between 1994 and 1994; and John Knight Fellowship, Stanford.

I grew up with my father the late Alan Knipe who was a technology visionary and the founder of StarRez. He never called himself that of course, but he just loved technology and was amazing at using it to solve problems for customers. This is also in my DNA, and I became involved with the family business from a young age. In my early 20's I had a huge opportunity to take StarRez international (back then it was called StarNet Systems). In 2006 I officially setup the Denver office and started building an amazing team to serve our growing North American market. In 2008 we launched StarRez in London and Europe, 2009 in Singapore and we continue to grow into more than 20 countries managing over 2 million residential beds. As the CEO , I am a global citizen switching between Melbourne, Denver and London frequently. Plus I wear a lot of different hats. I am most passionate about the product design and direction and connecting with our team and community, so that is where I try to focus most of my time, along with scaling the company for continued growth and success. International expansion and scaling are two of more core competencies that I love and enjoy mentoring start-ups on. Away from StarRez I love to spend time with my family and friends, I love exploring new countries, keeping super fit, following all sports and I happen to be a passionate Motorsport fan. I am also passionate about giving back to the YPO community and as an advisor and board member for Children’s Fortress Africa which helps homeless children find support, love, fitness, education and purpose.