Our Founders

Darius ensures Align Clients are empowered to use fundamental training tools of athletes, but with an understandable, lifestyle approach. He built Align to cater to clients who are proactive about their own health and have the knowledge needed to condition themselves into healthier feet and ultimately total body movement. He ensures Align’s approach is driven by crafting an extremely thorough whole-body assessment process, and that clients’ wellness and luxury and style is an important part of their custom fitted footwear experience. His medical skill is sought after from his medical trainees in his rigorous Align Clinician Program, as well as through talks at medical conferences and the many partnership clinics with whom Align holds in its collaborative network of allied health professionals. His combined business and financial acumen keep Align focused under his leadership. It has also awarded him the position of the Board of Directors with the Pedorthic Association of Canada, which allowed him to drive this work with an inspired team to improve foot health modalities on a national and global scale.

His concepts of traditional orthotic design are here compounded, by crafting creative medical orthopedic and proprioceptive design elements with premium, exclusive materials. Himself a man of impeccable style, this includes finding creative ways to custom fit footwear that people actually want to wear, in ever-evolving advances in fashion. These are the factors that make proprietary Align Orthotics™ truly such an effective device. Darius always has a research and development project in the works and continuously challenges the status quo, to discover new innovations in healthcare. This also inspired his work on co-patenting Pitch Perfects™ - custom, medical orthotics for high heels.

His most coveted leisure activity is his need for speed as an autosport enthusiast. A daring snowboarder, soccer player, extreme mountain biker, camper, strategic functional movement training enthusiast, he also is a homebody who loves spending time with his rambunctious sons.

As Align's CEO, Teressa oversees all elements of the entire operation. She co-founded Align to merge and disrupt the footcare, fashion and beauty industries, to empower Align clients with knowledge, a medically sound approach, and inspiration to look and feel better and healthier than ever before. She's determined to bring together the moving pieces to improve the way you do footcare as an impetus to healthier movement, for a more enriched and active life.

It is what inspired her to design the Align brand, the interior design and initial concept model for bridging the biomechanics and medical device component of foot health, within the fashion trend realm. And later, to expand Align's healthcare model to integrate the Footcare Spa, bringing innovation to combine the medical foot health and beauty realms. As well as for co-patenting the Align Pitch Perfect orthotic for high heels. Teressa relishes in the opportunities to appreciate and enjoy her equally inspiring Align Clients.

Prior to co-founding Align in 2013, Teressa completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, along with a Masters Certificate in Marketing at Schulich School of Business. Her public policy mindset and business leadership experience include being a Professor of Marketing at Humber College, a decade as Director of Marketing for an innovative nutraceuticals company, and a decade as a municipal Business Development Consultant bringing together cross-departmental teams to help maximize close to $100 million-dollar annual revenues for businesses operated under city-wide strategic plans.

Living the Mompreneur lifestyle, she’s a fun media personality who uses her dynamic public speaking skills to create awareness around healthcare innovation, healthy fashion & beauty in foot health, and an unconventionally soft yet savvy approach to business practices. She is creating and building Align’s departments as a strong, steady enterprise as we expand into new locations. Teressa is focussed on leading Align to being the most desirable place for medical foot health experiences, so everyone can live to their potential to move better, aligned.