Meet Our Team

Founder and CEO of Swiftsure Innovations, Deanne brings her experiences as a critical care nurse to develop medical devices geared toward improving the standard of oral hygiene in intensive care. As CEO, Deanne has built an excellent team with requisite skills for developing and globally commercializing medical devices. Deanne has recruited an exceptional advisory committee with experience building scalable companies to support product development, regulatory, business development, and Swiftsure’s IP portfolio.  She is passionate about providing nurses with the resources they need to do their jobs effectively and improve patient outcomes and satisfaction while reducing healthcare costs. Deanne received a Bachelor of Nursing and Bachelor of Business Administration from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Most recently Deanne was accepted and attended the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program, Women’s Leadership Forum, 2023.

Fun Fact: Deanne is an experienced snowboarder and volunteers at her local fire department.

Holly is a full-time employee of LS Associates serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer at Swiftsure in a part-time capacity. Prior to joining LS Associates, Holly served as Head of Finance at Xontogeny LLC, a boutique life sciences venture capital firm. Previously, Holly was VP, Finance at Beta Bionics, Inc. where she led finance, accounting and corporate governance. Earlier in her career, Holly held financial leadership roles at high growth private and publicly traded medical technology companies where she was responsible for internal and external financial reporting, planning and analysis, systems of internal controls/Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and corporate accounting. Holly was an integral part of Vapotherm Inc.’s (NYSE: VAPO) initial public offering in 2018. Holly holds an M.B.A. with a concentration in Corporate Social Responsibility from Southern New Hampshire University, a B.A. in Accounting from Assumption College and is a certified public accountant.

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