Executive Management

Shantanu Gaur founded Allurion and has served as Allurion’s Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Allurion Board since September 2009. Dr. Gaur founded Allurion while at Harvard Medical School in 2009. Dr. Gaur graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Biology from Harvard College and with an M.D. from Harvard Medical School where he was a Paul Revere Frothingham Scholar and Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. Dr. Gaur is qualified to serve as Chief Executive Officer and director of Allurion because of his experience founding Allurion, serving as its Chief Executive Officer and serving on the Allurion Board.

Chris Geberth has served as Allurion’s Chief Financial Officer since September 2020. Prior to Allurion, Mr. Geberth was Chief Financial Officer at Lutronic Inc., a medical equipment manufacturer, since December 2017. From June 2008 until December 2017, Mr. Geberth was the Executive Vice President of Finance at Cynosure, Inc., another medical equipment manufacturer. Mr. Geberth holds a B.B.A. in Business from Pace University.

Ram Chuttani has served as the Chief Medical Officer since November 2017 and is a founding member of Allurion. Prior to joining Allurion, Dr. Chuttani was the Director of Endoscopy and Chief, Interventional Gastroenterology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for 20 years. Dr. Chuttani holds a M.B. and a B.S. in Medicine from Maulana Azad Medical College. Dr. Chuttani is internationally recognized as a leader in digestive disease care and has pioneered several innovative endoscopic treatments. He co-invented an endoscopic treatment for gastroesophageal reflux disease and co-developed a novel treatment for obesity. He has published over 100 original scientific articles, in addition to several reviews and book chapters. He has lectured on, and demonstrated, novel and advanced endoscopic procedureat innumerable international conferences and workshops all over the world. Dr. Chuttani completed a residency at Norwalk Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine in Internal Medicine in 1987, and a fellowship in Gastroenterology at Harvard Medical School in 1990.

Benoit Chardon has served as the Chief Commercial Officer at Allurion since January 2018. He has 20 years of experience with performing non-invasive weight loss procedures at Allurion, conducting medical aesthetics at Allergan plc, ZELTIQ Aesthetics, Inc., and Galderma S.A. (Nasdaq: GLMD), and treating skincare at Filorga. He has specialized in new category creation and hyper growth brands. Before serving as Chief Commercial Officer at Allurion, Mr. Chardon was head of body contouring at Allergan from January 2016 until January 2018. Mr. Chardon holds a Masters of Business in International Business from Ecole Superieure du Commerce Exterieure.