Our Founders

Teressa brings a unique blend of acumen essential for leading Align’s podiatric concept clinics. She continues building Align as a robust, scalable enterprise that fosters a collaborative environment for foot specialists and establishes a new standard in offering patient-centric foot health experiences. Her leadership empowers Align clients with knowledge and a medically sound approach for healthier movement, a more enriched life, and inspiration to look and feel better and healthier than ever before, ensuring medical health, beauty, and fashion are not mutually exclusive. Keeping up with her active children and her husband, Darius, through hiking, snowboarding, and constant play, she truly embodies Align’s mission to help people move better aligned through foot health.

Through working with varsity athletes as an Athletic Therapist, he found it necessary to incorporate his proactive, Athletic Therapist and Strength & Conditioning Specialist background and mindset to his Canadian Certified Pedorthist designation, to bolster treatment outcomes through the combined, trail-blazed approach. Managing an orthotics clinic for years gave him the insight and desire to break the mould and create something different and completely new.

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.