Maria Shonyo is president and founder of Vela Technologies, LLC, where she focuses on helping medical device and healthcare IT companies assess new market opportunities, bring new products to market, and position and promote existing products and services. Since the company was established in 2001, Vela Technologies has served over 60 clients worldwide ranging from small early-stage startups to large international corporations.
With broad marketing and business expertise spanning the entire product life cycle, Ms. Shonyo has guided the assessment, development, launch and support of over 100 healthcare-related products ranging from high-end capital equipment and healthcare IT solutions to low-cost consumable devices.
Prior to founding Vela Technologies, Maria was Product Manager for the premier line of anesthesia monitors at Datex-Ohmeda (now GE Healthcare). Before joining Datex-Ohmeda, Maria held positions of progressing responsibility in the Marketing department of GE Marquette’s Invasive Cardiology division. Prior to her career in healthcare, Maria worked in engineering and software development and managed advanced projects for the US Dept of Defense. Maria’s educational background includes a BS, Systems Engineering, from the University of Virginia.
