Our people
Building the Future of Diagnostics
Leadership Team
Richard Bangyay
Founder
Focused on the intersection of AI-driven medical automation and scalable business unit economics, Richard founded Ascend Aegis and continues to shape its long-term direction, moving the company from a "Wedge" strategy in sleep diagnostics toward a global Diagnostic Operating System.
Brianna Morissette
President · Chief Executive Officer
Brianna leads the strategic vision at Ascend Aegis, driving operational excellence. She oversees project lifecycles, investor relations, and partnerships, ensuring the "Diagnostic Operating System" scales with the precision and integrity required for global medical deployment.
Dr. Stephen Glazer
Chief Medical Officer
A cornerstone of our clinical validation process. Dr. Glazer leads the weekly validation sessions, ensuring that every AI-driven insight meets the highest standards of sleep medicine. His oversight bridges the gap between machine learning and patient-centric care.
Jeni dela Paz-Dantoc
Country Manager · Philippines
Jeni drives operations and regional growth across Asia for Ascend Aegis, bringing over two decades of enterprise scaling expertise. She bridges public-private partnerships and aligns cross-functional teams, ensuring high-growth ventures scale smoothly and sustainably within competitive markets.
Engineering Team
Frank Cally A. Tabuco
Chief Data Scientist & Model-Accuracy Engine
Frank spearheads Ascend Aegis's diagnostic machine learning architecture, turning complex biological data into clinically precise insights. Bringing peer-reviewed expertise from BMVC 2022, he achieved 95%+ accuracy (Dice score) in high-stakes clinical segmentation. Frank now leads the deployment of advanced Transformer and sequence models (LSTM/GRU) to ensure our diagnostic OS meets the highest standards for polysomnography signal analysis.
Shoko Takahashi
Full Stack Web Developer
Shoko leads end-to-end web engineering at Ascend Aegis, specializing in Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Node.js. She rebuilt Aegis's digital platform from scratch on Vercel with GitHub CI/CD automation. From architecting secure authentication systems and database pipelines to embedding structured data for AI/LLM discoverability, Shoko bridges complex backend infrastructure with high-performance, clinical-grade user interfaces.
Lester Kim Lagrimas
Chief Engineer & Infrastructure Architect
Lester leads engineering resilience at Ascend Aegis, turning complex data pipelines into trusted, production-grade clinical systems. Bringing expertise from national-scale disaster alerting and radar systems, his core competence in fuzzy logic algorithms enables advanced noise reduction and quality control. Lester isolates physiological signals from noisy EDF sleep data, ensuring compliant, audit-ready pipelines built for high-uptime clinical adoption across North America.
