Our team
ACTS did not start in a lab. It started with fifteen years of operating around equipment that had not meaningfully changed in decades.
Leadership & advisors
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Chairman
A foot and ankle surgeon with fifteen years of operative experience and a law degree, Pieter founded Bezalel Innovations after years of working around the limitations of legacy pneumatic tourniquet systems. He leads product vision, clinical design, and regulatory strategy for ACTS.
Engineering Advisor & Board Member
Vice President of Engineering at Harper Engineering with more than two decades of engineering leadership across aerospace manufacturing, medical device development, and quality systems. Dustin served as lead engineer on ACTS v1.0, authoring the full ISO 14971:2019 risk management file and driving design reviews that eliminated unacceptable residual risk across all sixteen identified failure modes. He has led engineering organizations with budgets from $10M to $400M at HAECO and B/E Aerospace, and began his career in FDA-regulated medical device document control and regulatory coordination.
Regulatory Advisor
A regulatory leader who has worked both sides of the FDA process. David spent nine years at the FDA as a lead medical device reviewer, Congressional Affairs Specialist, and ultimately Chief of the Implantable Electrophysiology Devices Branch, overseeing approvals of complex electromechanical devices including novel Class III leadless pacemakers. He later served as Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs and Quality at ConvaTec and SVP of Regulatory Affairs at AscentX Medical, and now runs FDA Blueprint and Mr. Regulatory. He holds a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve and an M.E. from Johns Hopkins.
Medical Advisor
A practicing physician serving on the Bezalel Innovations advisory board, Dr. Ehmer brings frontline clinical judgment to the design and deployment of ACTS. He helps pressure-test the system against real perioperative workflow, pushing for a device that fits how surgical teams actually work rather than how equipment vendors assume they do.
Medical Advisor
Dr. Garret Strand is a fellowship-trained, board-certified foot and ankle surgeon at Shasta Orthopedics and Fellowship Director of the Northern California Reconstructive Foot and Ankle Fellowship. With thousands of complex foot and ankle procedures behind him, he brings extraordinary surgical depth to the ACTS advisory team. Beyond the OR, he is a devoted husband and father who believes excellence in medicine starts with character—lived out through mission work, years as a Big Brother, and a long history of serving his community. His clinical rigor and genuine care for people make him an invaluable medical voice for Bezalel Innovations.
Vision & Culture Advisor & Board Member
Founder of Igniting Hope Ministries and a longtime leadership developer. As a board member, Steve helps shape the culture of Bezalel Innovations — bringing decades of experience building healthy teams, developing leaders, and coaching founders through growth. His focus is on the people side of the company: character, mindset, and a culture where the team is built as intentionally as the technology.
Local Redding team
Engineering, design, regulatory, and commercial - working out of Northern California.
Engineering
Electromechanical engineer with a B.S. from Wentworth Institute of Technology and a minor in manufacturing. Kristina works across electrical and mechanical design, taking multidisciplinary systems from concept through production, and brings Altium-certified electronics design skill to the ACTS cuff and pump platform.
Graphic Design & Branding
Twenty years of visual design, brand strategy, and print production leadership, including creative work for Google, Apple, HH Global, and the San Francisco 49ers. Zoltan owns the Bezalel and ACTS visual identity — brand guides, product imagery, packaging, and every asset that carries the mark.
Logistics & Regulatory
Forrest brings a wealth of experience from over 16 years in the public sector as Bezalel Innovations' Government Affairs Specialist. His extensive background in logistics management within city and county organizations gives him unique insight into the needs and challenges of public operations, and his expertise in governmental regulatory compliance and resource management ensures that Bezalel's medical technology solutions align with government stakeholders, public sector standards, and policy. A leader driven by integrity and community service, Forrest is dedicated to fostering partnerships that enhance healthcare delivery. His commitment to serving people, paired with his background in public service, aligns with Bezalel's mission to make a lasting impact on healthcare through innovative, compliant, and community-centered solutions.
Sales
Marketing graduate of Palm Beach Atlantic University and Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Isaac has built pipelines from scratch as a business development representative — outreach planning, market research, and campaign strategy — and now carries ACTS into surgery centers and hospitals.
Business Development
Fifteen years in medical device sales, including a decade at NuVasive as the initial Alabama hire — averaging 105% to quota and growing two territories past $3M — followed by spine sales for Stryker across Northern California. A three-time NCAA champion at the University of Texas, Rainer now opens new markets for ACTS.
Social Media & Community Engagement
Kaitlyn leads digital engagement for Bezalel Innovations. She tells the Bezalel story across our channels - the surgeons we serve, the technology we are building, and the conviction behind it - and welcomes conversations with surgeons, clinical partners, and supporters who care about this work. A graduate of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry with prior studies at Colorado State University, she believes business is ministry.
Mission & Partnerships
LaDonna has spent her career building revenue where nothing existed yet. She was the first salesperson hired at Expedia Corporate Travel and the first at Virgin America, where she signed 75+ major corporate accounts — Google, Facebook, VMware, The Gap — worth more than $50M in annual revenue, and was promoted to Director of National Sales with responsibility for $300M+. She went on to lead sales for Etihad Airways and head Americas sales at Embed. Startups are her native language: she knows what it takes to build from zero.
Find a local rep
Our field team covers these territories today. If your region is not listed, tell us where you are and we will connect you with our team directly.
Greater Los Angeles County
San Diego County and Imperial Valley
Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties
All Hawaiian Islands
Far Northern California
NoVA, DC and Maryland suburbs
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