Management Team / Advisory Board Bios
Jay Cormier
CEO & Founder
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.
Dave Watola
Chief Technology Officer & Cofounder
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.
Mitul Mehta, MD, MS
Chief Medical Officer & Cofounder
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.
Brian Kim, MD
Medical Advisor & Cofounder
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.
