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OUR PEOPLE · REHABWHEEL
The people behind Rehabwheel. Meet the engineering, research, operational and clinical professionals guiding Rehabwheel and its investigational LegMaker platform.
Six leadership profiles · Two clinical and medical advisors
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01 / LEADERSHIP
06 PEOPLE Executive leadership Technology, research and strategic direction.
Nikita Chizhov Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Nikita Chizhov Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Nikita Chizhov is an entrepreneur and inventor focused on practical movement technology for people who use wheelchairs. As Rehabwheel’s founder and chief executive officer, he leads the company’s product vision, corporate strategy and development of the LegMaker lower-limb exercise platform.
His work centers on making exercise possible beyond traditional clinical settings through compact mechanical systems designed around the user’s existing wheelchair. At Rehabwheel, his responsibilities connect engineering development with research collaboration, manufacturing planning and conversations with clinical and strategic partners.
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Stan McClellan, PhD Chief Technology Officer
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Stan McClellan, PhD Chief Technology Officer
Stan McClellan brings an electrical engineering background spanning communications, networking and connected systems. Texas State University lists him as Professor Emeritus in its Ingram School of Engineering, with research that includes advanced communication technologies and applications in smart-grid and smart-city systems.
As chief technology officer, he leads Rehabwheel’s technical architecture and development direction for embedded sensing and motor control. His role connects the physical device with its planned software and data capabilities, helping translate product requirements into an integrated engineering roadmap.
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Stephanie Kolakowsky-Hayner, PhD Chief Research Officer
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Stephanie Kolakowsky-Hayner, PhD Chief Research Officer
Stephanie Kolakowsky-Hayner is a rehabilitation researcher whose work includes brain injury, spinal cord injury and neurological rehabilitation. The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine recognized her with its 2018 Distinguished Member Award, reflecting her contributions to rehabilitation research and the professional community.
As chief research officer, she oversees Rehabwheel’s research direction, outcome strategy and approach to evidence development. Her responsibilities include shaping evaluation questions and connecting product development with structured research planning. This work supports the company’s planned studies; it does not imply that LegMaker’s clinical effectiveness has already been established.
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Jag Singh, MBA Chief Financial Officer
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Jag Singh, MBA Chief Financial Officer
Jag Singh brings a background in financial services and private equity, including experience at Lehman Brothers and an MBA from NYU Stern. As chief financial officer, he directs Rehabwheel’s financial strategy, fiscal oversight and capital planning.
His responsibilities connect the company’s development priorities with its financial resources. At Rehabwheel, this means supporting budget planning and financing strategy as the team moves through engineering, research and manufacturing milestones. He provides a financial perspective alongside the company’s technical, clinical and business leadership.
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Kristin Yarboro Chief Business Development Officer
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Kristin Yarboro Chief Business Development Officer
Kristin Yarboro serves as Rehabwheel’s chief business development officer, with responsibility for strategic partnerships, external coordination and healthcare network expansion. Her role focuses on connecting the company’s developing technology with organizations that can contribute to its next stages.
She supports conversations across the healthcare and business ecosystem, helping organize collaboration opportunities around product evaluation and strategic development. Working alongside the executive, technical and research teams, she connects partnership priorities with Rehabwheel’s development roadmap and the needs of prospective collaborators.
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Dr. Denise Gobert, PT, PhD Chief Neurological Rehabilitation Officer
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Dr. Denise Gobert, PT, PhD Chief Neurological Rehabilitation Officer
Denise Gobert is a physical therapist and educator at Texas State University whose teaching includes neurological rehabilitation and research in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program. Her university biography describes more than two decades of physical therapy practice.
As chief neurological rehabilitation officer, she contributes a rehabilitation perspective to Rehabwheel’s clinical strategy and protocol development. Her role helps connect engineering decisions with questions about movement, usability and care-team workflows. She supports the development of a structured evaluation approach for the lower-limb platform.
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02 / ADVISORS
02 PEOPLE Clinical & medical advisors Clinical guidance and medical safety perspective.
Dr. Ori Lotan Clinical and Medical Advisor
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Clinical & Medical Advisory
Dr. Ori Lotan Clinical and Medical Advisor
Ori Lotan is a physician with a background in internal medicine, hospital medicine and clinical informatics. His published professional biography describes experience in primary care and hospitalist practice, followed by physician executive and medical information leadership roles at healthcare organizations.
As a clinical and medical advisor to Rehabwheel, he contributes medical insight to the platform’s development direction. His perspective connects patient care, clinician experience and health information technology, supporting discussion of how planned device information and software workflows can be useful to clinical teams.
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Dr. Michael Meier Clinical, Medical Safety, and Health IT Advisor
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Dr. Michael Meier Clinical, Medical Safety, and Health IT Advisor
Michael Meier is a physician and 22-year U.S. Navy veteran with board certifications in occupational medicine and clinical informatics. His existing Rehabwheel biography describes more than 15 years of experience in federal health IT acquisition and high-reliability environments within the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
As Rehabwheel’s clinical, medical safety and health IT advisor, he contributes guidance on medical safety, patient protocols and informatics integration. His role brings a systems perspective to discussions about the developing device, clinical workflows and the responsible handling of health information.
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CORPORATE OVERVIEW
Medical devices meet physical artificial intelligence. Rehabwheel Inc. is a pioneering medical device and physical artificial intelligence company dedicated to transforming neurological rehabilitation and mobility independence. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with research and operational expansions in Austin, Texas, we design and manufacture next-generation assistive mobility hardware that bridges advanced mechatronics with rigorous clinical outcomes.
MISSION & VISION
Engineering for physical autonomy. MISSION Intelligent, accessible mobility hardware. To engineer intelligent, accessible, and clinically validated mobility hardware that restores physical autonomy and redefines neurological rehabilitation standards worldwide.
VISION Robotic assistance integrated into everyday life. A future where state-of-the-art robotic assistive systems seamlessly integrate into clinical facilities and daily living environments, empowering individuals with mobility impairments to achieve peak physical independence.
FOCUS Mechatronics + clinical outcomes. Rehabwheel’s development direction connects assistive hardware, embedded control, sensing and data-driven rehabilitation workflows.
CORE INNOVATIONS
Patented rehabilitation hardware with an intelligent control roadmap. Our foundational technology includes the patented LegMaker rehabilitation system, protected by U.S. Patent No. 10,603,541 and international intellectual property. The platform combines precision actuation, custom embedded sensor networks and an edge-AI development roadmap intended to support adaptive, data-driven rehabilitation regimens tailored to individual recovery trajectories.
LegMaker is an investigational device.
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