Alastair is the founder and CEO of Mendea Technologies. After stepping away from corporate law, he became interested in meditation and neuromodulation research, connecting directly with scientists before founding a company focused on improving how the mind works.
The starting conviction from meditation was simple: if the mind works better, life is better. Alastair chose OCD, a condition affecting over 750,000 people in the UK, where about half of patients don't get relief from medication and therapy.
Alastair wants to use focused ultrasound - concentrated soundwaves which can change neural behaviour when focused onto precise points - to calm overactive circuits in OCD patients' brains. A patient would wear a lightweight headset in a clinic during a therapy session, with real-time brain monitoring personalising the treatment.
