Eyedaptic

Brian is a board certified ophthalmologist at Harvard Eye Associates who specializes in the clinical treatment of retinal and macular diseases including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vascular occlusions and other retinal conditions. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University, and after graduation worked as a database programmer for Accenture in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology division. Brian went on to earn his Medical Degree from Pennsylvania State University, and completed a fellowship in Medical Retina at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Florida, and has more than 15 published and presented novel research projects.

Dave began his career at the Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory after earning his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering at Washington State University. There he researched and implemented advanced receivers, statistical pattern recognition systems, machine learning algorithms and error correcting codes for their Communication Systems Research Section. He went on to help co-found Pivotal Technologies, developing IP for the then-emerging Bluetooth and DVI arena, and was later acquired by Broadcom. He continued his startup work at Solarflare Communications, where he was deeply involved in all aspects of the technology. Dave has subsequently been applying image processing, machine learning, and statistical pattern recognition and decision making techniques to numerous cross-disciplinary software solutions.

As an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur, Jay has a strong track record of founding, growing, and turning around businesses. He has completed several successful exits totaling over $750M, across embedded software, SaaS, and hardware solutions. By leveraging his background at Analog Devices, Jay has led marketing, sales, engineering, operations, strategic partnerships, business development, new product strategy and execution. As Vice President & General Manager, Jay achieved exits at Teridian, Sierra Monolithics and Mindspeed using his expertise building high performance, execution-oriented multi-disciplinary teams. Jay earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Northeastern University.

Mitul is a board-certified ophthalmologist with fellowship training in medical and surgical diseases of the retina and practices at UCI’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute. He earned his Medical Degree from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and also holds a M.S. in BioPhysics from Georgetown and B.S. from MIT, where he first ventured into software startups. He completed fellowship training in vitreoretinal surgery at the New York Eye & Ear, and conducts research on surgical devices and techniques, as well as on vitreoretinal diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. Mitul is the cofounder of the online America Retina Forum and the Young Retina Forum as well as the editor of the retina section for the surgical education website, CSurgeries.com.

Art has helped build and scale profitable businesses in the pharmaceutical software, electronic design automation, and communications industries for more than 40 years. He was CEO of Scintera and co-founder, chairman and CEO of Pharsight Corporation, where he led its IPO. In addition to his management roles, Art is well known in the investment community, and was a venture partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a general partner of ABS, and currently a Managing Partner at Horizon Ventures. He has recently served as acting President of WhiteHat Security, Chairman of Eye-Fi and Entelos, and currently is a Director of Materna Medical. Art has been an active member of the Band of Angels since 1995, is a partner in the Band’s Acorn fund and earned a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT.

Jerry is an active Advisory Board member of the EvoNexus Incubator, as well as Okami Medical and Inceptus Medical Device Incubator. As President & CEO, he led the spinout of Teridian Semiconductor Corp. in conjunction with private equity firm Golden Gate Capital. He successfully transitioned the turnaround of the company, into the clean tech space which was subsequently sold to Maxim Integrated Products for $315M in cash, a 14x multiple in total invested capital. Prior to joining Teridian, Jerry was the CFO of Airport Group Inc. whose primary investors included The Soros Quantum Fund, GE Capital, and Lockheed Martin. Jerry graduated from the University of Southern California with BS in Business.