Management

Robert Taylor, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Director

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..

Motoaki Saito, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Chairman of the Board

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.

Lakshmi Lakshminarayan, M.B.A.
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Lakshminarayan's career encompasses over 20 years of experience leading both field and headquarters financial operations, including multi-national Fortune 50 companies, medium-sized companies, and start-ups. Prior to joining TeraRecon, Lakshmi was the Director of Finance and Business Administration, in the Ultrasound Division of Siemens Medical Solutions, Inc. He was part of the management team that successfully introduced several new technologies and innovative products that gained significant market share and growth in the ultrasound imaging sector. His extensive operational experience includes financial oversight and operational support of Sales, Service, Product Management, Business Development, and Manufacturing areas. Mr. Lakshminarayan has previously held a number of senior management positions within Siemens Communications, Cadence Design, ROLM Systems, and Tel Plus Communications. Mr. Lakshminarayan holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree with honors, with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. He also holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of New York.

Koichi Kanayama, M.B.A., C.P.A.
Senior Vice President, Japan Branch Manager

With experience in both technology and finance areas, Mr. Kanayama joined TeraRecon in June 2004. He received a BS degree from the University of Tokyo and MBA from University of Washington. His career includes two venture companies with successful IPO's in Japan. Mr. Kanayama led a start-up airline, Skymark Airlines Co., Ltd., as CFO and Corporate Planning officer, and a browser software company,
Access Co., Ltd. to expand international operations and business development as GM of Corporate Planning.

Jeffrey Sorenson, M.B.A., B.S.E.E.
Vice President of Aquarius Sales, US and Canada

Mr. Sorenson is a seasoned medical imaging professional with over 15 years of industry experience, holding a variety of positions including sales, marketing, and service management, including 9 years
of experience in advanced CT applications. Jeff is responsible for managing sales activities for TeraRecon's Aquarius products in the USA and Canada. Prior to TeraRecon, Jeff served as the Director of Marketing for Imatron, Inc. from 1999 - 2002, where he helped drive significant increases in revenue prior to the sale of the company to GE Medical Systems where Jeff subsequently served as Strategic Sales Manager, Cardiovascular CT. Prior to GE and Imatron, Jeff held positions in service management and service engineering with Philips Medical Systems. Mr. Sorenson holds an Executive M.B.A. degree from Cardinal Stritch University, Edina, MN, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with emphases in digital design and controls from the University of Wisconsin, Platteville.

Tiecheng (TC) Zhao, Ph.D.
Vice President of Engineering

Dr. Zhao joined TeraRecon in 2001 from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation where he co-Created and Architected VolumeProNET, a unique and disruptive network-based volume rendering server, and the predecessor to TeraRecon's quintessential and genre-defining AquariusNET server. Dr Zhao is the Chief Architect of AquariusNET, the product that ushered in a new era of enterprise 3D, multi-modality image management and advanced visualization for CT, MR and other volumetric modalities. Prior to joining Mitsubishi, Dr. Zhao was a CT physicist at GE Medical Systems working on calibration and reconstruction systems for GE's first 4-slice CT scanner, the "LightSpeed". He has more than 17 years of diverse academic, industrial and software development experience, including working as a research scientist at NASA, and authoring popular freeware GUI toolkit (XForms).  Dr. Zhao received his B.Sc in Physics from Nankai University, China, and his Ph.D. in Physics from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Toshiaki Sakaguchi, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Operations

Dr. Sakaguchi is an accomplished operational executive, who has formerly served as executive vice president at the Information Technology Center of America (ITA) and at Mitsubishi Electric's
Research Laboratories in the U.S. Previously, he led R&D projects at Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Electronics and Systems Lab and also at the Central Research Lab in Japan. He worked as the project
manager as well as the manager of strategic planning and administration for the first real-time digital power system simulator. Dr. Sakaguchi received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1982.