Chris Danek
CEO at Santa Clara University
Kelowna, British Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolChris Danek is a medtech-focused CEO and serial founder with over two decades of experience translating deep engineering expertise into commercial medical device success. He combines a Stanford PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a Wharton MBA to lead startups from early R&D through acquisition and scale, most recently steering Bessel.co and serving as CEO and advisor across life sciences ventures. Known for rescuing products from timeline and execution risk, he blends hands-on technical leadership (earlier CTO/R&D roles) with board-level strategy and university teaching and advisory roles. Based in Kelowna with roots across the Bay Area and El Paso, he mentors life sciences teams on commercialization and regulatory readiness while moonlighting as an indie C# developer, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor, operational grit, and coding curiosity.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Mechanical Engineering, PhD Mechanical Engineering at Stanford UniversityBME Mechanical Engineering, BME Mechanical Engineering at The Catholic University of AmericaMBA Finance and Marketing Strategy, MBA Finance and Marketing Strategy at The Wharton School
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Github Skills (113)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cdanek/KaimiraWeightedList
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
A generic collection for selecting random elements by weight in O(1) in C#
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
elementsselectingjavascript
cdanek/ISG-Master
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:109 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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