DigitalVision Team
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Keith Thompson MD. The Company is led by CEO Keith Thompson MD, an internationally recognized refractive surgeon who served as a Professor of Ophthalmology at Emory University School of Medicine from 1991-2004. Thompson was a lead US investigator in the development of excimer laser PRK and LASIK surgery that first gained FDA approval in 1995. He then founded and led a start up that was funded by Noro-Moseley Partners, an Atlanta-based venture capital firm. The enterprise was successful and he provided his venture capital and limited-partner investors with a profitable liquidity event by repurchasing their shares. Envisioning a new technology capable of providing superior vision with spectacles, contact lenses, and surgery, Thompson led a Harvard/MIT/Atlanta- team to develop DigitalVision’s technology.
Jose R. Garcia (CTO) has a proven track record of developing large-scale information systems using cutting-edge web-based technology. Prior to co-founding DigitalVision, from 2001 to 2004, he served as Director of Technology for InView, where he led the research and development group that developed the InterWave technology. From 2000 to 2001, he was the Director of Engineering at NoticeNow, a unified messaging provider, where he led the technology group implementing one of the first extensible markup language (“XML”) web services development based on an application service provider (“ASP”) model. From 1993 to 2000, Mr. Garcia served as Applications Development Manager at Construction Systems Associates, a software and services provider for facility management systems, where he was responsible for principal technical and engineering oversight on multi-million dollar customized development projects. From 1985 to 1992, he worked at The Urban Institute, a health care think tank, where he led a team charged with data analysis and managing statistical review for chronic kidney disease research. Mr. Garcia earned BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biology from George Washington University.
David Roberts has been employed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute since 1985 where he is now a Senior Research Scientist and senior optical designer in the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory. Roberts is an expert on optical system design and integration and has led applications of telescopic and LIDAR design applications for the Department of Defense at GTRI and in collaboration with other researchers. Roberts leads the GTRI Team for the DigitalVision project.
Leanne West is a Senior Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory and the Director of the Landmarc Research Center, also housed within EOSL. West is an expert in control system software for electro-optical systems and has served as a Senior Scientist for many Department of Defense projects. West supervises GTRI’s research staff developing the eye tracking subsystem for DigitalVision.