About

Founder’s Story

Manojeet Bhattacharya is an entrepreneur, a scientist, an inventor, and a medical device technologist. He started his career as a Nuclear Astrophysicist in academia and then spent several years at government laboratories in space exploration and in nuclear energy. Since 2009 he has been developing and commercializing medical device technology for diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy, first as a Key Expert in the Molecular Imaging division of Siemens Healthineers, developing solutions for Cardiology, Oncology, and Theragnostics that are currently in clinical use, and since early 2020 as the founder of EmpNia a medical device startup. Having noticed the lack of a simple and effective motion management solution for delivering precision radiation therapy to all cancer patients, he embarked on a journey to develop and commercialize eMotus, an easy to use, universal, and cost-effective solution for respiratory motion management solution to enable precision imaging and therapy in every setting.

Leadership Team

Manojeet Bhattacharya, PhD

CEO

Manojeet Bhattacharya is a scientist, medical device technologist, and inventor with a background in nuclear astrophysics and applied nuclear physics. Since 2009, he has focused on developing and commercializing medical imaging and radiation therapy technologies, including solutions for Cardiology, Oncology, and Theragnostics currently in clinical use.

Evan Johnston

Director of Operations

Evan Johnston is a strategic and innovative manufacturing operations leader with extensive experience in the medical devices industry. He has successfully led operations in start-up, turnaround, and established companies, implementing rapid growth capabilities to support strong revenue scaling. His reputation is as a hands-on change agent, a culture developer for business excellence and customer focus, and an untiring proponent of continuous improvement.

Leota Pearson

Consulting CFO

Leota Pearson, CPA, is a Contract CFO with more than 35 years of experience working with life science companies that span all stages of growth. She has a proven track record of strong leadership and results in fast-paced, demanding and rapidly-changing environments. Leota has worked as a CFO in public and private medical device companies including Orthomet, Endocardial Solutions and Celleration. She has had direct report responsibility for accounting, HR and IT. In 2010, she started a consulting practice focused on companies in the life science area where she oversees financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, internal control and closing of equity and debt financings as well as HR.
Leota is a member of the Minnesota CPA Society having served on their board of directors and Financial Executive International where she served on the national board and as the president of its Twin Cities chapter. She was named Consulting CFO of the year in 2017 by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Leota holds an undergraduate degree from The University of North Dakota and a MBA from the University of Minnesota.

Chip Truwit, MD

Advisor

Neuroradiology thought leader, innovator, and accomplished business executive.

Ryan Denney

Board of Directors

Ryan Denney is a medical device executive with more than 25 years of experience driving commercial growth and bringing innovative healthcare technologies to market. He serves as Chief Commercial Officer at Elucent Medical and advises emerging medical technology companies on commercialization, market adoption, and business strategy.