Omari Bouknight, CEO at Resonant Link Medical

Omari is the Chief Executive Officer of Resonant Link Medical, an innovative medical technology company redefining wireless power and data transfer for implantable devices. With over two decades of experience driving medtech innovation, commercialization, and global strategy, Omari has helped advance next-generation therapies across structural heart, electrophysiology, and implantable technologies. Prior to Resonant Link Medical, he held senior leadership roles at Abbott, CardioFocus Inc., Cardiac Dimensions, and Thoratec, leading transformative growth initiatives. Omari is passionate about building patient-centered technologies that improve lives worldwide.

Market Dynamics & Global Strategy

How does Resonant Link Medical’s wireless power transfer technology align with the growing shift toward active implantable medical devices (AIMDs)? With healthcare trends increasingly demanding precise, localized energy delivery—such as “intelligent focal” systems—how does your technology position itself in diverse markets?

By enabling highly efficient, focused wireless energy transfer, we support the next generation of AIMDs—from tiny diagnostic and monitoring devices to easy-to-use neurostimulators, data-hungry BCIs, patient-friendly ventricular-assist devices, and more. Continued healthcare innovation demands device miniaturization, extended longevity, and uncompromising reliability. Our platform provides easy-to-use wireless charging that’s up to 10x faster than conventional wireless power, removing the frictions associated with traditional charging and letting patients live as normal lives as possible.

Resonant Link Medical’s wireless power platform is purpose-built for the rapidly evolving landscape of active implantable medical devices (AIMDs). As the industry shifts toward more precise, localized, and intelligent energy delivery systems, our technology is the only option for fast, safe, and convenient wireless power for all types of AIMDs, from mm-scale implantables to high-power devices.

Patient-Centric Design on a Global Scale

Spinal cord stimulators are a good example. Patients often complain about slow charging. How does your technology enhance quality of life while ensuring safety for patients with dynamically moving implants?

Spinal cord stimulators are a good example. Patients often complain about slow charging. How does your technology enhance quality of life while ensuring safety for patients with dynamically moving implants?

We’ve heard stories of people giving up trying to recharge their spinal cord stimulator because it’s very difficult to line the charger up in the right spot. Users are going without treatment today, not by choice, but because it’s too frustrating to recharge their devices.

Technical Innovation & Success Cases

Your platform enables up to 10x faster charging and miniaturized implants. How does this advancement address challenges in powering next-gen AIMDs that integrate real-time monitoring or stimulation?

Resonant Link Medical’s wireless power platform delivers charging speeds up to 10x faster than traditional systems—a significant advancement for active implantables that require power delivery in compact, patient-friendly formats. This includes devices that offer stimulation, real-time sensing, or adaptive therapy, where limitations like long recharge times, bulky charging hardware, and the need to sit or lie still while recharging can prevent patient adoption and hinder device effectiveness and use.

Take, for example, spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain — a therapy known for its clinical benefit but often burdened by long, inconvenient recharge sessions. Our technology is designed to dramatically reduce the time patients spend charging, from hours to minutes. Instead of planning their lives around charging, patients can get charging that lets them regain normalcy and be more inclined to choose spinal cord stimulation over other treatment methods like opioids. By removing charging friction and enabling uninterrupted therapy, our platform supports the broader movement toward smaller, smarter, longer-lasting, and more effective implantable devices.

Regulatory & Risk Considerations Across Regions

Smart implants introduce cybersecurity and long-term reliability risks, particularly given variations in regulatory requirements across different global markets. How does Resonant Link Medical’s wireless power technology mitigate these challenges while ensuring compliance with Class III medical device standards in the U.S., Europe, and Asia?

ctive implantables must meet the highest standards for safety, reliability, and cybersecurity—especially as devices become smarter and more connected. Resonant Link Medical’s wireless power platform is designed with these demands in mind. Systems are engineered for medical-grade reliability and fault tolerance, with redundancy, thermal safeguards, and real-time diagnostics built-in.

We design to meet and exceed Class III medical device requirements, and our platform helps minimize cybersecurity risks. For example, our proprietary data and communications protocol uses the power link—or RF—for data transfer and communications, which can be more secure than other data transfer protocols.

Future Applications & Disruptive Global Potential

Could your wireless power solutions enable entirely battery-free AIMDs? From a global perspective, how could these advancements support cutting-edge functions like cloud-connected diagnostics or adaptive electrotherapy?

Depending upon the therapeutic or diagnostic need, battery-free AIMDs can be attractive. To support the most effective and patient-friendly option, having reliable, efficient wireless power transfer is a necessity, irrespective of whether there is an implanted battery or not. Our wireless power has already been designed into devices that require continuous power, such as sleep apnea stimulators meant to be used all night or brain-computer interfaces intended for continuous use. For these applications, it’s essential to have highly efficient wireless power that works during motion and as the implant orientation changes in the body.

For certain technologies, eliminating the battery can streamline device design, reduce surgical complexity, and open up smarter, more localized and more personalized therapies. And working with one technology platform that can wirelessly power all active implantable applications is an added benefit.

Industry Collaboration & Global Healthcare Partnerships

How do you envision partnerships between wireless power providers and smart implant developers shaping the next decade of patient care?

At Resonant Link Medical, we believe that close collaboration between medical device enablers and developers of intelligent implants is essential. The future of patient care depends on multiple pieces coming together and power transfer will be one of the most critical elements. Our partnerships allow both power delivery and therapy design to evolve together—resulting in systems that are not only more effective but also much more user-friendly.

One partnership involved co-developing a wireless power system for all day, everyday use alongside a new brain-computer interface. Working together from the earliest design stages ensured a power-informed implant architecture—accelerating R&D while enhancing the overall therapy experience.

This type of integration leads to systems where power transfer is no longer an afterthought but a core enabler of innovation. Whether for real-time adaptation, higher energy delivery, or improved patient compliance, these collaborations are redefining what’s possible in next-generation medical devices.

Sustainability & Long-Term Benefits for Healthcare

Could your wireless power systems eventually eliminate explant surgeries due to depleted batteries, thereby reducing both patient risk and medical waste? What environmental and economic benefits might this yield in healthcare systems worldwide?

Fast and efficient wireless power transfer is an enabling technology that is closely aligned with the increased usage and advancement of rechargeable battery technologies. These technologies hold the promise of being smaller and longer-lasting. The combination can result in the reduction of battery exchange surgeries and extend the functional lifespan of implants.

This has significant implications for healthcare systems, and the benefits extend beyond fewer surgeries and preventing unnecessary waste. Ultimately, we envision a world in which people get well, stay well, and stay well in the comfort of their home. Resonant Link Medical enables smart, long-lasting, and less invasive implants placed with precision for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes. Today, you already have value-based care changing how healthcare systems view different procedures and with both the growth in outpatient and ambulatory care and new remote diagnostic and treatment options, we believe more accessible and in-home healthcare is possible.

Visionary Leadership & Future Roadmap

As the CEO of Resonant Link Medical, a leader in wireless power for medical devices, how do you balance rapid technological advancements with the rigorous demands of clinical validation?

Balancing technological ambition with rigor is central to our approach at Resonant Link Medical. Every advancement we pursue—whether in efficiency, size, or intelligence—is tied to a validation pathway grounded in safety, efficacy, and patient outcomes.

Partnering with like-minded companies allows us to co-innovate from the ground up. Our roadmap reflects that ethos and our values center on only promising what we can deliver, pushing what’s possible while grounding innovation in physics, and knowing we’re better together with our partners and clinical stakeholders.