Meet the Team
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen
CEO and Founder
Named of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. Former exec. at Facebook, Oculus, Google, and Intel...
Maurizio Vecchione
President
Ex EVP of Global Good reporting directly to Bill Gate for 7 years via Intellectual Ventures...
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...
Peter Herzlinger
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Over 30 years of developing and and manufacturing innovative optical products...
Dr. Brad Hartl
Senior Staff Biophotonics Scientist
Previously developed Cerenkov radiation and autofluorescence lifetime imaging for medical applications in the brain...
Dr. Sarmishtha Satpathy
Staff Optical Scientist
Breakthrough work in all optical stimulation and detection of neuronal firing and construction of neural circuits...
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 who pioneered work at Google over his tenure of 3 years...
Achal Achrol, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Achal is a neurosurgeon who has led brain tumor, stroke and neuroscience translational research programs in academic university hospitals, health systems and industry.
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...
Dr. Hosain Haghany
Principal Optical Engineer
Hosain earned a PhD in Physics from Beckman Inst (UC Irvine) in laser interaction with highly scattering tissue...
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...
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. Albert Heberle
Principal Optical Scientist
Albert has 20+ years experience in optics R&D from early concept to mass production of over 100 million units...