Craig McLaughlin
Lewis Shotton
Susanna Keeton
MEET OUR TEAM
Craig McLaughlin
When he is not in the office, he enjoys playing ice hockey, going to the beach, and hiking.
Craig is a CPA who provides accounting, tax, and financial planning services to small businesses and individual clients throughout the Boston area. He brings over a decade of diverse financial expertise, having served as a Fiscal Team Leader with the U.S. Department of Labor, an Audit Manager in public accounting, and as both a Revenue Agent and Revenue Officer with the Internal Revenue Service.
CFO
Lewis Shotton
When he's not in the lab, he's hammering metal at the silversmithing bench, getting lost on a hiking trail, or chasing down tennis balls on the weekend.
Lewis is a bioengineer with years of experience in a material synthesis and characterization lab at Oregon State, where he led a capstone project focused on designing and optimizing lateral flow assays for disease detection.
Lead Researcher and Co-Founder
Susanna Keeton
In her off time, she enjoys spending time in the White Mountains.
Susie is a product leader who turns bold ideas into market-ready solutions, with a track record of scaling early innovations and leading successful launches. At Lyme Alert, she applies deep product expertise to advance the mission of detecting Lyme disease at the earliest point of exposure.
Product Leader
Rebecca Elitzur
In her free time, Rebecca enjoys spending time at the beach, travelling, and practicing Taekwondo.
Business Development Intern
Rebecca Elitzur is part of the LymeAlert Marketing team and a student at David Posnack Jewish Day School with a passion for health, research, and entrepreneurship. She brings experience in nutrition, marketing, and video production to support LymeAlert’s mission of raising awareness of Lyme Disease and advancing advocacy.
Carissa Qiu
In her free time, she likes to paint, play pickleball, go on hikes, and make jewelry.
Business Development Intern
Carissa is an undergraduate student at MIT studying finance and economics. Her goal is to raise awareness about tick-borne diseases and support public health initiatives.
Moose
His hobbies include burrowing in the snow, rolling in snow, and knocking down snowmen made by children. He is a champion nap-taker, hiker, and loves to jump into chairs that guests are about to sit down in.
Chief Dog Officer
Moose is a Great Pyrenees mix. He was abandoned on a roadside in TN alongside 2 of his litter mates as a puppy. Fortunately they were found quickly by a Good Samaritan and they were taken on an epic road trip to Martha's Vineyard with Angels for Animals rescue. Erin's family had just lost their previous Pyrenees and realized quickly that there was a big, fluffy hole missing in their household. They were matched with Mooseand took a memorable mid-winter ferry trip to the Vineyard to pick him up.
Erin Dawicki
When she's not out dragging for ticks to crush for the lab team, Erin enjoys hiking, backcountry skiing, paddleboarding, archery, soccer and any outdoor adventure that gives her the excuse to try out new gear. She is married to the world's most supportive husband, mom to 2 daughters, 2 dogs, and 2 guinea pigs.
Erin is a Physician Associate with 16 years of experience primarily in Orthopedic Surgery and more recently, Urgent Care. Due to her strong belief that access to healthcare is a fundamental right for everyone, regardless of socioeconomic status, she left clinical practice to join the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program where her course of studies centered on leveraging emerging technology to build a better healthcare system. LymeAlert was founded thanks to the support of several classes and programs through MIT and MIT Sloan where she met her similarly mission-driven co-founders.
CEO and Co-founder
Michelle Ewy
In her free time, Michelle, her husband, and their dog, Kali, love getting outdoors to explore and enjoy nature. They recently expanded their crew with two reformed barn kittens, Arthur and Findlay, who quickly traded hay bales for cozy blankets and have made it their mission to keep Kali on her toes.
Dr. Michelle E. Ewy is a scientist, entrepreneur, and Air Force veteran with over 20 years of experience in chemistry, biotechnology, and strategic leadership, including roles in research, operations, and science policy. Her technical expertise and mission-driven approach make her exceptionally well-suited to lead the development of innovative diagnostics for Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses.
CSO and Co-founder
Brenda Ong
In her spare time, Brenda enjoys hiking, tinkering with technology, cooking and yoga.
Brenda is a Sloan Fellow MBA with more than a decade’s experience in public safety, operations and communications with the Singapore government. She was previously Head Operations for a land division, and led public communications for the police.