Motoaki Saito, M.D.,
Ph.D.
Chairman
of the Board
Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Saito founded
TeraRecon in April 1997 and currently serves as CTO and Chairman of our Board of Directors. Dr. Saito is a radiologist, entrepreneur, and visionary. His academic
research work and clinical training at the University of Tokyo Hospital provided him with valuable experience with all medical imaging modalities and information systems. In addition to strategic
planning of the company's entire operations, he is responsible both for the solution/application ground designs and the core technology designs including system/processor level architecture. Dr. Saito
served as President of Meditechs Co. Ltd. in 1994, JAM System, Inc. and AMT, Inc. in Tokyo, Japan in 1995. Dr. Saito received his B.Sc. degree in Medicine from Niigata University and passed the Japanese
National Medical Practitioners Qualifying Examination in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in medicine from the University of Tokyo in 2004.
Robert Taylor, Ph.D.
Director
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Taylor joined TeraRecon in February 2001 with the initial responsibility for establishing and developing the company's advanced visualization and medical imaging informatics decision support business in the global market, now TeraRecon's core business focus. He has over 15 years of experience with advanced software and technology development and commercialization in a broad range of settings, from advanced clinical applications to distributed healthcare systems. He received both his B.Sc. (1990) and his Ph.D.
(1996) in physics from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, England. From 1999 to 2001 Dr. Taylor served as chief executive officer and director of AccuImage Diagnostics Corp..
Fumio Urano
Director
Member of the Independent Review Committee
Member of the Audit Committee
Mr. Urano currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Excalibur Corporation, providing management consulting services to mid-sized technology companies. In addition, since 2007, Mr. Urano
has been an advisor to Hoya Corporation, subsequent to the acquisition by Hoya of Pentax Corporation, where Mr. Urano served as President and CEO from 2000 to 2007. Prior to this, Mr. Urano held a
range of senior management positions with Pentax since joining the company in 1968. Mr. Urano received his Bachelor of Science degree in Precision Machinery Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1968, undertook graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1981, and received the Golden Pin Prize from Koln Messe in 2004. He served as Chairman of the Camera & Imaging Products
Association in Japan from 2003 to 2005.
Shigeyuki Watanabe
Director
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Mr. Watanabe currently serves as Senior Advisor for Funai Kosan Co. Ltd. He received his master's degree in Economics from Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan in 1966, and subsequently joined Nichimen
Corporation (currently known as Sojitz Corporation) where he served in a broad range of senior management positions over the course of a 36-year career with the company, culminating in the role of Executive Officer and Senior General Manager of the Finance and Accounting Group. Mr. Watanabe served as Chairman of Nichimen Computer Systems Corporation in 2002, and as Senior Managing Director and CFO of Nakau Co. Ltd from 2002 to 2004. From June 2004 to 2006, Mr. Watanabe served as President of Sojitz Insurance Agency Corp., and from 2006 to 2009, he served as Auditor for Act Communications Corp.
Matthew James Ostrander
Director
Member of the Independent Review Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Mr. Ostrander founded Parkside Lending LLC in 2004 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, providing wholesale financing in multiple markets across the United States. Mr. Ostrander graduated
from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1993 and then pursued a diverse entrepreneurial career involving sales, marketing and media, prior to founding VAAM, LLC in 2002 where he served as Chief
Executive Officer until 2004.
James R. Langford III, Esq.
Secretary
Attorney
Mr. Langford is a licensed attorney who joined the company in early
2006. Jim received a B.A. degree from Stanford University prior to
graduating from law school at the University of California, at Los
Angeles. His experience includes fifteen years in the private
practice of law, involving a wide array of experience in commercial
business, litigation, and real estate, with particular emphasis in
intellectual property matters. He is a member of the Business Law and
Intellectual Property Law sections of the State Bar of California.