Our Team
We are working hard to transform water rescue and victim recovery
VodaSafe was born from the intersection of engineering and lifeguarding on the West Coast of Canada.
Carlyn Loncaric
CEO
Bio
Carlyn is the founder and CEO of VodaSafe, and an engineer with over ten years of lifeguarding experience. Witnessing first-hand the trials and tribulations of water rescue led Carlyn to envision a sonar equipment as a simple tool in hand that would help save lives, VodaSafe and its AquaEye® were born. Carlyn believes that VodaSafe’s AquaEye® will be to waterfront rescue what the AED or portable defibrillator has been for CPR.
Patrick Davies
Mechanical & Product Engineer
Bio
Patrick is a mechanical and product engineer working on the design, operation and user experience of AquaEye®. He brings valuable knowledge of mechanical design and product development from Vancouver’s biotech industry, where product quality and reliability is paramount. His passion for creating products that have a meaningful impact on people’s lives brought him to Vodasafe.
Doug Peyser
Territory Manager
Bio
Doug is a Business Development Representative at VodaSafe working to improve water safety by empowering organizations to address their water rescue protocols with the help of AquaEye®. He is determined and goal driven to demonstrate the impact that advanced technologies such as AquaEye offer to emergency responders and continues to expand AquaEye’s reach and customer base. As an ex-athlete, Doug has always considered health and safety, not only for himself but for his teammates as a top priority, which he believes AquaEye will help other teams to achieve as well.
Wylie Spencer
Marketing Strategist & Product Manager
Bio
Wylie arrived at VodaSafe from an entrepreneurial and business background in Vancouver. Communicating the story and benefits of AquaEye® to the first responders around the world is a fulfilling and enjoyable task. Spending most of his Out of Office time chasing snow, paddling the seas or biking the mountains, Wylie is happy to be able to assist the teams that provide rescue services in the outdoors.
Declan Johnston
Firmware & Product Engineer
Bio
Declan is a firmware and product engineer working on testing, firmware, and software development. His education in Engineering Physics prepared him for the variety of challenges he encounters in the development of VodaSafe products. When he’s not in the office, Declan enjoys playing and watching all types of sport.
Grace Stelmachowicz
Territory Manager
Bio
Grace is an engineer turned Business Development Rep. With her background in engineering and customer success, she assists first responders and lifeguards in implementing AquaEye into their current operations. When not working, Grace can be found exploring the mountains hiking, skiing, and climbing. While out exploring, she has seen how fast things can go wrong in the outdoors. This has helped her better understand the tough role these emergency lifesaving professionals have and has encouraged her to help where she can.
Sean Boyd
Hardware Engineer
Bio
Sean is an electrical engineer working on the design, testing, and manufacturing of AquaEye®. He has over 15 years of experience designing complex electrical and electronic systems for medical, military, and electric/hybrid automotive projects, where safety and high reliability are critical. Sean is driven to apply technology and engineering to solve important problems; this is what attracted him to VodaSafe’s mission to help save lives and keep rescuers safe.
Erik Wolfe
Sales Manager
Bio
Erik is the sales manager at VodaSafe. Erik leverages his 15 years of Sales & Marketing experience in the tech-sector to help turn new technologies into industry proven solutions. Erik has built a career helping teams sell technical products that solve long standing industry problems. With an active young family, which includes two kids who love the water, helping to reduce drownings and keeping rescue professionals safe is a passion.
Isel Tastasa
Operations Coordinator
Bio
Isel finds joy in generating optimal business solutions to the toughest of operational problems. He loves travelling around the world and seeking discomfort to adapt to any challenge that comes his way. Isel is passionate about social impact and is happy to be able to contribute to the team in any possible way. When off the clock, Isel spends time learning about blockchain, meditation, tai-chi and showing love to the nature. Isel comes from recent experience in the growing hops industry.
Michael Davis
Contract Marketing Strategist
Bio
Michael comes to VodaSafe with 25+ years of marketing and communications experience in businesses from startups to Fortune 500’s. As a long-time scuba diver, the unique benefits of AqueEye for all types of search and rescue applications were obvious. Having an opportunity to support the team to drive awareness and growth of AquaEye was a chance he couldn’t pass up.
Wesley Cassidy
Engineering Co-op / Unicorn Wrangler
Bio
Wesley is a co-op student at VodaSafe working on firmware development. He is excited to work on VodaSafe’s products in order to help first responders save lives or provide closure to families. When not working, Wesley enjoys playing board games with his siblings and reading fantasy novels.