Panos is a tech entrepreneur with a background in economics and finance. Since he co-founded Multiwave Technologies AG in 2015, he has led efforts to raise more than $8.5 million in dilutive capital and $12m in non-dilutive capital to finance the company’s innovation pipeline. A consensus builder by nature, he has leveraged his chairmanship to drive Multiwave’s pivot from a metamaterial software company to a cutting-edge medical imaging innovator in the field of portable magnetic resonance imaging. He has been instrumental in securing partnerships with a series of academic institutions across Europe and the US, leading MRI original equipment manufacturers, UN agencies as well as managing in-bound and out-bound licensing deals with business partners.

Panos co-founded his first venture in the field of finance at the age of 22. At the age of 24, he started a 9-year journey as an economist at the World Trade Organization (WTO) where he focused on enhancing the standards of living of least-developed countries through trade-related assistance programs in partnership with other international institutions such as the World Bank, IMF, UNDP, among others. While at the WTO, Panos was also a director at the WTO Pension Fund.

He then worked for a leading FMCG company in London where he established the company’s international trade practice from 2010-2014 and was also investment director of the company’s pension fund ($3 billion assets under management).

Since 2015, Panos has leveraged his network in tech and venture capital to gather momentum in support of cutting-edge science, engages in training to help young deep-tech entrepreneurs and is opportunistically an angel investor.

Panos speaks French, English and Greek and is proficient in Spanish. He is a Greek, Canadian and Swiss national. He earned his BA and MA in Economics at McGill University and Concordia University, respectively. Panos played Varsity Tennis and Soccer at McGill in consecutive years between 1996 and 2000 and was vice-president of McGill’s entrepreneur’s club. Outside his business interests, he is a keen athlete taking place in tennis competitions in Switzerland and abroad.

Tryfon is a scientist and ex-professional athlete turned serial entrepreneur with a background in engineering and applied mathematics.

From metamaterials to multi-physics software to bioengineering, Tryfon leads Multiwave Technologies’ interdisciplinary research efforts. He leverages an ability to connect the dots between different scientific fields to build Multiwave’s portable MRI intellectual property portfolio. His scientific expertise enables him to bring answers to some of the big challenges in the field of healthcare.

Tryfon started his career as a professional skier competing at world championships and world cup mogul competitions. He stopped competing in 2010 to follow his passion for science. He joined the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as a research associate to design particle beam dumps for the Large Hadron Collider. While at CERN, he completed a PhD in applied mathematics at Imperial College London and went on to work at that university as a post-doctorate research associate for a year. At the same time, he was tempted by algorithmic finance and joined hedge fund 80 capital from 2013-2014. Like all professional athletes, he is driven by perfection and applies that discipline across Multiwave’s scientific portfolio. Prior to taking a turn for applied mathematics in the field of metamaterials, Tryfon earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University and a master’s degree in fluid mechanics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He was awarded the Yael Dowker Centenary Prize for the best PhD thesis in the Department of Mathematics of Imperial College London a few years later. Apart from setting himself apart as the first Greek professional mogul skier, Tryfon competed for the McGill Track & Field Varsity Team from 2001-2002. In his spare time, Tryfon enjoys track and field, tennis and basketball.

Amira heads Multiwave’s operations in our R&D facility in Marseille, France since 2024. She joined Multiwave in 2022 as an MRI and usability engineer after several years of experience as a clinical researcher and research engineer for various renowned institutions in France.

At Multiwave, she oversees all activities related to the development of our portable MRI scanner, including the implementation of our quality management system, and leads a team of dedicated researchers and engineers to develop and bring to market our portable MRI device. In her previous role she managed Multiwave’s technical documentation and usability studies for the portable MRI system, including records for quality management system and design of gradient and magnets for the system.

Prior to Multiwave Imaging, Amira worked as Research engineer at Institut Fresnel, a leading CNRS laboratory specialising in electromagnetic, metamaterial and imaging applications. Her work focused on RF shimming in Ultra-high field MRI and safety assessment of metallic implants in MRI acquisition. Amira has also worked as a Clinal Researcher in the Centre for Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine, a co-funded CNRS and AMU research facility specialised in developing and applying preclinical and clinical MR methods. Her work focused on developing semi-supervised post-processing tools to optimise prognosis and diagnosis for healthy and pathological cases of central nervous, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal systems.

Amira obtained her Engineering Degree in Industrial Biology from the National Institute of Applied Science and Technology in Tunisia, in 2015 and her master’s degree in Cognitive and Integrative Neurosciences from Aix-Marseille University, in 2017. She then completed her Animal experimentation training in 2019.

Outside science, Amira enjoys travelling, video games and practices boxing and Aikido.

Sajad joined Multiwave Imaging as a senior RF engineer for MRI following his post-doctoral training at Yale University’s Magnetic Resonance Research Center (USA).

Sajad obtained his PhD in Medical Physics Imaging at University of Paris-Sud (France) which he followed with a post-doctoral position. A Part of his PhD was conducted at MR Center of Excellence at Medical university of Vienna (Austria).

During his PhD and Post-doctoral positions, Sajad worked on projects including the design and development of phased array coils for low and high field MRI. He completed his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a specialization in electronics followed by a master’s degree in Biomedical Imaging with a specialization in medical imaging at Heidelberg University (Germany).

At Multiwave Imaging, his research interests are on design and development of Radio-Frequency coils and the corresponding interface/hardware for low-field MRI.

Aris joined Multiwave as AI researcher in 2017. Previously, he was at Piraeus Bank, where he worked as a back-end developer, applying big data technologies to financial transaction processing, developing constrained optimization algorithms for asset management, and working on subsystem integration using micro-services and messaging middleware.

Prior to that, he worked with a leading cable network in Greece to develop software for automatic video classification, scene detection, content summarization, and news broadcast caption OCR, to be used for storing, tagging and retrieving videos from the network’s archives.

Aris has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a PhD in Machine Learning from National Technical University of Athens. His work focused on applications of evolutionary algorithms to pattern recognition and multi-objective optimization problems.

His current research interests include using deep learning techniques for medical imaging applications.

Outside his interests in science, Aris is a professional classical guitarist and amateur piano player.

Chloé joined Multiwave Imaging in 2021 to lead the mechanical and design product development. She oversees the evolution of our MRI devices from functional ergonomic protototype to scalable industrial product and supports our production and QMS activities.

Chloé is an expert in product design and user experience design. She obtained her engineering degree in Mechanics and Industrial Design at UTC (University of Technology of Compiègne), in 2013, and an MSc in User eXperience Design, in 2014.

Chloé is customer and industry oriented thanks to her multiple experiences in various industrial fields such as autonomous solar lighting, metallic packaging and industrial design for medtech and household appliances. In 2014, she joined L’Oréal Group as an Innovation Engineer, in Paris, to develop new products and technologies for worldwide cosmetic brands. She developed a strong expertise in thermoplastic injection molding and 3D printing, and she authored 7 patents. In 2020, she partnered on start-up project to develop a 3D-printed arm exoskeleton for patients suffering from muscular distrophy diseases.

When she isn’t working, Chloé loves hiking, snorkelling and backpacking around the world.

Wico joined Multiwave Technologies from Tesla Dynamic Coils, where he worked as an RF engineer since 2019. At Tesla Dynamic Coils, Mr Breimer specialized in the development of RF technology for high-field MR systems and hybrid MR systems. He was also involved in improving compliance with ICE and ISO standards as well as with the European medical device regulation. While at Tesla DC, he was a project leader on multiple projects.

Wico joined Multiwave to work on RF technology for ultra-low field MRI, while adhering to the company’s quality management system and supporting the Company’s actions toward regulatory approval.

Following a Bachelors degree in Physics at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Wico completed his Master’s degree in Physics in 2019 at Leiden, under the stewardship of Professor Andrew Webb. His work then focused on the feasibility of a low-field MRI system.