Noel Lindsay, Founder, Chairman & CEO
Noel Lindsay founded Sleep Science Partners, Inc. (SSPI) in 2005 and is the Chairman and CEO. Noel's personal battle with chronic snoring led him to seek out a noninvasive treatment that would allow him to regain quality sleep. After much searching, he became acquainted with the inventors of PureSleep, Dr. Douglas Fenton, DDS, and the late Dr. Bernard "Buzz" Kramer, MD, an ear, nose and throat specialist. Noel now sleeps well every night with the assistance of his PureSleep device. His entrepreneurial passion led him to launch SSPI which licensed the PureSleep device to make it more affordable and widely available to other chronic snorers seeking relief.
Prior to founding SSPI, Noel worked as a consultant and venture capitalist. He worked in investment banking for Hambrecht & Quist (now part of JPMorgan), Deutsche Bank, and Thematic Investments where he served as President. A serial entrepreneur, Noel helped start Crescendo Communications, which invented the key technology used in the "Fast Ethernet" standard and was an early developer of LAN switching systems - both now universally deployed. When Crescendo was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1993, Noel evangelized the new products throughout Cisco's worldwide sales and marketing organizations. Noel also did product marketing for Sun Microsystems, designed communications systems at Hughes Aircraft and flight guidance and control systems at McDonnell Douglas.
Noel has a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business.
Doug Meharry, Controller
Doug is a CPA with over 22 years of finance and information systems expertise and has performed all aspects of managerial and financial accounting, including tax planning, preparation, and compliance. He is also an experienced programmer who helped design, program, deploy, and maintain complex accounting systems, as well as more comprehensive management information systems. Doug has extensive experience using financial analysis to support corporate-level strategic planning and has developed and maintained financial models used to manage entire companies. In one recent role, Doug served as both COO and CFO for a multimedia startup that produced patient education materials. Doug also assumed control of a small bankrupt company with about 20 employees and three principal operating units, where he served as the company’s President and was successful at restructuring the company and then liquidating it for the benefit of its owners. Doug has worked with other companies that range in size from startups like Teknekron (acquired by Reuters Group PLC and subsequently spun-off as publicly-traded TIBCO Software, Inc.) to one of the world’s largest global multi-nationals, Nippon Steel. Doug has experience in the insurance, healthcare, real estate, entertainment, computer manufacturing, and software industries. He holds a B.S. in Accounting and has taken graduate-level classes at Golden Gate University. Prior to college, Doug served four years in the United States Coast Guard.