B.Sc. Kin, C.Ped(C), CAT(C), CSCS

Darius's passion to create Align was inspired by his unique perspectives on body alignment. He found it necessary to incorporate his proactive, Athletic Therapist and Strength & Conditioning Specialist background and mindset to his Canadian Certified Pedorthist designation. It is important to him that Align Clients are empowered to use fundamental training tools of athletes, but with an understandable, lifestyle approach. To be proactive and passionate about their own health and have knowledge needed to condition themselves into healthier feet. This, combined with crafting an assessment process that is extremely thorough, considers the whole body, appreciating the concept of clients feeling wellness and luxury in their healthcare provision and recognizing that personal aesthetic is an important part of custom fitted footwear – is what drives Align’s approach.
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. It also inspired his work on co-patenting Pitch Perfects™ - custom, medical orthotics for high heels.

Darius always has a research and development project in the works and continuously challenges the status quo, to discover new innovations in healthcare. His Board Director position with the Pedorthic Association of Canada allowed him to drive this work with an inspired team to improve foot health modalities on a national and global scale.

With a drive to do healthcare ever better, as our Medical Director, Darius developed, maintains, and evolves the Align Clinician program to broaden the reach of helping more health care providers overcome traditional barriers and evolve their assessment tools and treatment techniques in foot health. Beyond training at Align, he often provides sessions and speaking engagements to allied health care companies who are interested in learning his unique perspective.

Both co-founders meticulously hone the structure and fine details of the Align concept, rooted in these combined passions. They’re always excited to continue taking Align to the next level, providing ever more wonderful experiences in foot health, for everyone.

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.

Since her clinical placement at Align in 2021, Claudia Chan returns to us to resume all Align Footcare Spa services and has quickly become our lead Chiropodist and managing the Footcare Spa operations. She fully embodies both the preventative and pain treatment approaches to podiatric footcare and has developed strong relationships with Align clients and team alike.

Driven by curiosity about the complexity of human movement, Claudia completed an Honours Specialization in Kinesiology with a Major in Rehabilitation Sciences from UWO. This advanced skillset in biomechanics and sports medicine aspects gives her an acute eye in your Body Align Assessments.
Graduating at the top of her class with an 'Advanced Diploma With Distinction in Chiropody' at The Michener Institute, Claudia was also awarded the 'Board of Governors’ Gold Medal Award of Academic Excellence'.
Throughout her clinical placements, Claudia has honed her expertise in providing dermatological, pharmacological, surgical and wound care.

Claudia is an empathetic, highly intelligent medical professional. She also is a culinary whiz, an artist, loves camping, hiking and can do laps around the rest of us on Align custom fit roller skates!

Frances Tran has worked in the beauty industry for over 10 years.
Her passion for luxury skincare gave her an appreciation for luxury retail, which naturally evolved into her passion for health and wellness that brought her to her role at Align. She truly loves helping people to look and feel their best. And people truly love working with her.

Frances has a personal outlook of ‘empathy in everything I
do!’ She loves connecting with people and learning about their stories and journey in life, to form deeper understandings of others. Her calm, positive and highly productive way of doing everything infuses success into all she touches. As Team Lead, she is she is the glue that holds the Client Experience Team together. She is continually learning all company roles in order to ensure each department works optimally with the CEC team. We're excited to continuously grow together in the outcomes of her vast skillset in client experience, effective, efficient operations and team training and leading.

Health is imperative to her in body, faith, and mind. She
is regularly active in exercise, volunteer work, listening to music and reflective journaling.

BA, Political Science

Teressa is a humble, Mississaugan business mogul with over 25 years in business development and teaching, for corporations with various philanthropic health causes. She is focused on driving healthy social change through innovative business models.

As Align's visionary and in a Director or Operations role, 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 foothealth, within the fashion trend realm. And later, to expand Align's healthcare model to integrate the Footcare Spa, bringing innovation to combine the medical footheath and beauty realms. As well as for co-patenting the Align Pitch Perfect orthotic for high heels.

Living the Mompreneur lifestlye, Teressa has a strong voice on minority women who balance effectively running both companies and households. She uses her dynamic public speaking skills to create awareness around heatlhcare innovation and feminism.

Teressa relishes in the opportunities to appreciate and enjoy her equally inspiring Align Clients.