OUR TEAM
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen
CEO and Founder
Named to Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People and CNN's Top 10 Thinkers; former executive leadership at Facebook, Oculus, Google and...
Maurizio Vecchione
President
President of Openwater, CIO at Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, CEO of Global Health Alliance and Partner at Adastral Funds and Ethos Capital...
Dr. Soren Konecky
Chief Technology Officer
Soren has decades of experience in optical imaging and algorithm development for both life science and semiconductor applications...
Dr. Achal Achrol, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Achal is a board-certified neurosurgeon who has led brain tumor, stroke and neuroscience translational research programs in academic university hospitals...
Andrew Houck
Senior Staff Mechanical Engineer
Andrew has 8 years of experience developing optical and electromechanical systems. Background in mechanical...
Dr. Brad Hartl
Senior Staff Biophotonics Scientist
Previously developed Cerenkov radiation and autofluorescence lifetime imaging for medical applications in the brain...
Dr. Chris Bawiec
Senior Staff Ultrasonic Engineer
Chris has over 12 years of biological imaging experience, primarily with therapeutic and diagnostic ultrasound...
Dr. David Varley
Principal Electrical Engineer
20+ years of experience in technology development and product design for electrical, electro-optics & opti-mechanical products & systems. Extensive...
Erik Buchholz
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Erik has 20 years experience as a firmware developer, tester, and quality engineer, most of it spent working on Class II and III...
Ethan Head
Senior Software Engineer
Ethan is a software engineer with a history at fast-paced startups and aerospace companies. He’s shipped code powering public transit systems, space...
Dr. Gambhir Ranjit
Staff Laser Engineer
More that a decade long experience in lasers, optics and optoelectronics systems, research and development in academia...
George Vigelette
Senior Software Engineer
George Vigelette has more than 25 years of experience in IT product development for some of the largest companies in the world. His expertise...
Dr. Kedar Grama
Staff Algorithm Engineer
Kedar has 10+ years of experience in Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He worked on defect discovery in semiconductor manufacturing...
Marissa Dhillon
Head of Human Resources & Office Manager
A graduate of UCLA, Marissa has over 20 years of experience in human resources and operations management. She has...
Peter Herzlinger
Director, Mechanical Engineer
Peter has over 30 years of developing and manufacturing innovative optical products including scientific sensors, ...
Sarah Barreto Ornellas
Biomedical Engineer
Sarah received a BS in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from Yale University and for her thesis she researched compensation...
Simon Vana
Engineer
Previously, Simon has been an engineering technician at Compact Imaging Inc. as well as Enlumen Technology, and Lumyn Technologies...
Sino Gulchinov
Senior Hardware Engineer
7 years of experience in hardware systems engineering in various fields; wireless power transfer, medical lasers, autonomous drones, IoT,...
Dr. Ulas Taskin
Senior Ultrasonic Engineer
Ulas received his PhD from Delft University of Technology on full-wave inversion for breast cancer detection. He is experienced in medical imaging with...
Dr. John Ryan
Consulting Director
Corporate strategy in domains where the underlying physics and manufacturing technology remain unsettled...
Dr. Carl Herickhoff
Consulting Director
Director of Ultrasonic Imaging Sciences Laboratory at Stanford University in the School of Radiology...
Sandra Shpilberg
Consulting Director
Founder and CEO of Seeker Health (acquired by EVERSANA), a leading platform for clinical trials...
BOARD & ADVISORY
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen
Chairman of Board
Named of the hundred most influential people in the world by Time Magazine...
Jeff Huber
Board Director
Jeff is a legendary engineering senior vice president and business leader who pioneered work at Google over his tenure of 13 years...
Prof. Theodor Haensch
Scientific Advisory Board
Professor Haensch won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005 for his work on comb lasers and precision spectroscopy...
Dr. Neal Kassel
Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Kassel is the founder and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation and former Co-chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia...
LEGAL TEAM
Scott Dettmer
Legal Counsel
Scott is a founding partner of Gunderson Dettmer and is listed as one of the top IT and venture lawyers in the Global Counsel 3000, Best Lawyers in America and has received numerous awards...
Shu Hu
Intellectual Property Counsel
Shu helps on IP & Tech transactions at Openwater. At Gunderson Dettermer she specializes in the areas of IP counseling...
Michael Williams
Legal Counsel
Michael our attorney at Openwater - At Gunderson Dettmer he is a specialist in M&A, with broad experience advising sellers and buyers...
Aaron Visbeek
Patent Counsel
Aaron is a patent attorney and a Partner at Boswelll IP Law and provides most of our guidance on patent matters at Openwater...
Ashley Macy
Paralegal
Ashley has drafted numerous certifications for partnerships, LLCs and as well as completed numerous efforts in client, customer, financial, regulatory and securities research...