Angus Mclachlan, PhD

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Dr. McLachlan co-founded Liberate Medical and has served as a member of its board of directors and its Chief Executive Officer since 2013. From 2014 to 2016, he also served as the Director for Device Integration and Strategy for Revon Systems. Dr. McLachlan completed his doctoral research on Liberate Medical’s proprietary electrical muscle stimulation technology and was responsible for the initial product development of VentFree and SecondBreath, which led to the technology being spun out of Apellis Pharmaceuticals. He is co-inventor on all of Liberate Medical’s patents and has authored several important publications in the field of abdominal functional electrical stimulation. Dr. McLachlan received his M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.