A physician, engineer and successful serial entrepreneur, Dr New received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, his MD from Duke University, a PhD in Physiology from UCLA, and his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He recently retired from the Stanford University School of Medicine faculty after 25 years of service. His clinical specialty was cardiovascular and heart transplant anesthesia, and his research focused on the bioengineering of electronic instruments for intensive monitoring and life support.

Bill was founder and executive chairman of Nellcor where he developed the pulse oximeter to monitor oxygen levels in the blood of anesthetized patients, a safety product now found in virtually every operating room worldwide. He later founded Natus to provide hearing screening for newborns, with over twenty million babies now tested worldwide.

Dr New chairs The Novent Group, angel investors in startup healthcare and educational ventures of exceptional social promise.  Bill also serves as director or trustee of numerous educational, corporate and charitable institutions. He is presently Chairman and CEO of Adigy, an early stage company developing wireless biosensors to unobtrusively monitor health and disease.

He was attracted to Vancouver for its extraordinary livability and the opportunity to collaborate in the building of bioengineering excellence at Simon Fraser University.  He is pleased to serve on the Dean's Advisory Council of the Faculty of Applied Science.

In spare moments, Bill enjoys the family vineyard in Napa he planted with award-winning Beaujolais years ago with his father — with recurrent dreams of growing even higher quality Pinot Noir in British Columbia someday.