Meet our team of ESD experts
Chief Technology Officer
Jonathan Tapson, Ph.D.
Daan Stevenson, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Daan has a background in mechanical and aerospace engineering. During his doctoral research, he studied the high-voltage charging of spacecraft, which are electrical capacitors in the same way that the human body is. While working to design an automated ground station for UAVs, he frequently damaged electrical components with electrostatic shocks. This motivated him to found IONA Tech with the goal of advancing technology in ESD mitigation.
Email: daan@iona.tech
Jonathan Tapson, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
Jonathan was a professor of electrical engineering at Western Sydney University before moving to the US in 2016. He spent his early career conducting sensor and instrumentation research, with a strong industrial focus. During this time. he spun out three companies from his research, all of which are still successful today. His specialties include low-noise circuits and systems design, mechatronic design and the integration of machine learning into real-time systems.
Email: jon@iona.tech
William Goethals
VP of Engineering
William is a product developer and systems engineer with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams. With over 15 years of experience working with tech startups at various stages of development, he has brought over a dozen electronics products to market, including other wearables. William is an expert in ASIC/FPGA design, artificial intelligence, manufacturing, gyroscopic technology and robotics.
Email: william@iona.tech
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