Team
Surge is a startup founded in mid 2021 around a team of six, including engineers and physicians from Stanford University, Sorbonne University and École Polytechnique.
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder
Julien Hédou
Engineer (Ecole Polytechnique),
MS Biomedical Informatics, Stanford
Role: Global Leadership, Vision & Strategy, Fundraising, Investor relations, Surge Primary spokesperson,
Surge's technological vision, implementing technology strategies and Technical/AI Development
Chief Operating Officer
Valentin Picot
JD, LLM, Lawyer (Business & IP),
MBA
Role: CEO's right-hand, supervision of overall operations, strategy design and execution, management of support functions (Global communication & marketing, finance, IP, Legal, HR, etc.)
Chief Product Officer
Benjamin Choisy
MD, MS, General Practitioner, visiting postdoc at Stanford
Role: Product design, Product market fit, KOL relations
Advisory Board Member & Co-founder
Brice Gaudilliere
Engineer (Ecole Polytechnique), MD, PhD, Associate Professor in Anesthesia at Stanford.
Role: Member of the Advisory Board & of the Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board
Member of the Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board
Dyani Jones
DMD, MPH, Associate Professor of Surgery at Stanford
Role: Member of the Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board
Chairman of the Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board
Franck Verdonk
MD, PhD, Associate Professor Sorbonne University specializing in Anesthesia-Resuscitation, head of department - Saint Antoine (APHP), visiting professor at Stanford
Role: Chairman of the Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board