Meet the 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dr. Brad Hartl
Senior Staff Biophotonics Scientist
Previously developed Cerenkov radiation and autofluorescence lifetime imaging for medical applications in the brain...
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...
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...
Andrew Houck
Senior Staff Mechanical Engineer
Andrew has 8 years of experience developing optical and electromechanical systems. Background in mechanical...
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...
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...
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen
Chairman of Board
Named of the hundred most influential people in the world by Time Magazine...
Shu Hu
Intellectual Property Counsel
Shu helps on IP & Tech transactions at Openwater. At Gunderson Dettermer she specializes in the areas of IP counseling...
Dr. Soren Konecky
Chief Technology Officer
Soren has decades of experience in optical imaging and algorithm development for both life science and semiconductor applications...
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...
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. Chris Bawiec
Senior Staff Ultrasonic Engineer
Chris has over 12 years of biological imaging experience, primarily with therapeutic and diagnostic ultrasound...