LifeWave Biomedical Team

Steve Stephansen

Chief Executive Officer

As the Chief Executive Officer of LifeWave Biomedical, Steve brings 45 years of engineering, marketing, sales, and executive leadership experience spanning public companies and high-growth technology startups.

Steve has served as the CEO of LifeWave Biomedical over the past 16 years and has led the company in developing several generations of its radar sensor technology and a number of clinical studies validating clinical applications. 

Steve was formerly CEO of WebV2, which innovated early agentic AI in enterprise B2B with a decentralized networked intelligent agent product for executing business processes across web services, databases, mobile devices, and human users. The agent framework was based on the FIPA standards in being distributed and federated and capable of orchestrating process flows.

Steve also served as VP of Marketing and Sales at Information Storage Devices (ISD), where he was a key architect of the company’s growth from inception to its successful NASDAQ IPO, where in the preceding 4 years it was recognized as Silicon Valley’s 3rd fastest growing company.

Steve also has experience in semiconductor product markets, notably in high performance computing, signal processing, and storage.  He started his career at Advanced Micro Devices and progressed through engineering, marketing, and strategic account sales.  His final position at AMD was VP of Strategic Marketing for the Flash Memory division.

Beyond his operational leadership, Steve played a prominent role in seed stage startup funding where he was a Co-Founder of Sand Hill Angels, an angel investment group that has developed both a national reputation and leading reputation in Silicon Valley. He served as its president for 7 years and was recognized by the group as President Emeritus.

He holds an MSM from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and MBA from Santa Clara University, an MSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BSEE from Lehigh University. While pursuing an MSM at the Stanford GSB , he enrolled in classes at the renown Stanford Biodesign Program.